They say you should replace your helmets every 3-5 years. With myself, my wife, and my daughter, along with having both 1/2 and full face helmets for different weather conditions, I have built up quite the collection over the years.

what do you guys do with your old helmets? Do you through them out?

I have a new one coming today & I want to keep 1 back up of each style, and am planning on getting rid of the rest.

 

Stacked up on a shelf in the garage.

 

turn them in during the dealer april helmet sale for 20% off a new one

 

Have heard of individuals donating them to the Fire Service for drill purposes for them to practice removing them from injured motorcyclists.

 

i do this... i take them to a local station

 

I just tossed three in the garbage a few weeks back.

I (we) still have a pair of the white "police style" 1/2 shells that we bought in '07 for a trip out west. They haven't been out of the boxes since.

I still have an old FF that I bought for my AK trip in 2000 that I use these days when plowing snow with my tractor (I look like a dork but it sure keeps my warm and dry). I may toss it this week as I (we) still have two, nearly new snowmobile helmets and no snowmobiles!

 

300 yard targets...

 

With Bicycle Helmets, they say after a crash you should destroy the helmet before putting it in the trash to prevent someone from digging it out and wearing it.
I would think the same should apply to motorcycle helmets.

 

I started a collection when my son was racing MX and now there are 30 or so lining the rafters in my shop

 

Save them in 20 years they be worth twice what you paid for new on some picker tv show.
I trash them