Cleaning my helmet and skin

Let me start by saying that cleaning and polishing my gear is one of the most soothing things on the list of things I do when it comes to living the bikerlife. This of course doesn’t top actually riding, but I thoroughly enjoy doing it none the less.
I digress from the reason I’m writing the post however.
So the other day my wife walks into the garage and asks me what I’m doing while I’m deep in my own mission of meticulously applying the good ‘ol trusted Dubbin to my leathers to hear her.
She gently touches my shoulder leading to me flying up from the chair in shock and asks me the question again.
“Cleaning up my gear my love”, I mumble as I crack back on my task.
“You do know that it’s all going to get dirty during your next ride right?” as she turns, shaking her head to leave me in my own little zone.
This gets me thinking though as too why I’m so hell bent on getting my leather looking and smelling brand new, just to get hammered by bugs, wind and on occasion rain as I sit with a motorcycle rumbling between my legs???
Is it my CDO (in other words, OCD that is so severe that I even have to rearrange the letters alphabetically 🤣), or is there something deeper to this routine I’ve practiced throughout all my years of riding?
As I take a step back to admire my now spotless leather, and gleaming helmet, the beginning of reason begins to smack me in the face about this entire endeavour.
Every time I gear up, I take on my biking identity! No, this isn’t a split personality disorder here before you come to that thought, which I might now have placed into head 😉
My leather becomes my skin. If I’m unfortunate in having to slide down the road, it’s the part of my body that gets ripped to pieces. So obviously it makes sense that I treat it as my own skin. That means keeping in clean and well taken care of to keep as much of my inside intact.
As for my helmet, it’s not merely my head, it’s my face while I’m riding as well. Kind of makes sense why everyone has a habit of choosing a different design, that just tends to match their own personality right? So it makes perfect sense to keep it sparkling clean seeing that your face is the first impression you leave on people you meet along the road of life.

And so my conclusion is set. I know now why I take such intensive care of all my riding gear. Kind of makes a ton a sense when you look at it in that context.
Enjoy the riding guys and gals 😉 till the next blog post!