Semi-non-touring type dudes - answer me this:

[Ixion]

I watched a show on discovery a while ago (i was unemployed and had nufin beta to do) The show was called mythbusters and they tryed to kill a credit card with magnets and unless you scratch the shit out of the magnetic strip on the back they were all sweet... and they had some big magnets...

You can run as honking big a magnet as you want over the mag strip, with no harm. But, COLLAPSE even a smallish magnetic field a few times, and it's another story. Tis a collapsing magnetic field (or, worse, one rapidly changing polarity) that does it not a static field

[vifferman]

You can run as honking big a magnet as you want over the mag strip, with no harm. But, COLLAPSE even a smallish magnetic field a few times, and it's another story. Tis a collapsing magnetic field (or, worse, one rapidly changing polarity) that does it not a static field

So, a degaussing wand would do it?

[RiderInBlack]

Use Magnetic Tank Bags all the time. Have had no problems with any of my Cards, or Celephone, or Dig Camera. My cards are in a normal card holder and just get throughen in with eveything esle in the bag. All sweetIf you are still worried just put you cards in the side pockets or map-holder pocket so they are not directly next to the magnets.

[pritch]

I've heard that if you put credit cards near the magnets, they'll be rendered thingummy (you know - ferkd.)

That's true even other cards will wreck them. Your bank will give you a pamphlet listing likely causes of failure. Mine gave me one anyway...

[b]What else should I not put in the tank bag in case the strange black voodoo magic that is magnetism wrecks it/them?

Things you may need in a hurry go in the tank bag: snacks, camera, tiedowns (on top), duct tape, Leatherman tool, maps, reading glasses, whatever else you may need during the journey. I also keep the tyre gauge and the mini chain lube in a pocket of the tank bag. (Not quite what you asked I know...)

One of those little torches that strap around your head would be good too, and that should probably also be in the bag.

Anything, the loss of which will end your trip, should be on your person: bike keys, wallet, ferry tickets, etc.

I also have the cell phone in a pocket of my jacket. I'm aware that some people consider this an injury risk. But the phone will be no bloody use if I can't get to it for any reason.

Salamat jalan

[madboy]

tankbag hasn't had any ill effects on my cards (admittedly in wallet), or cell, or dig camera, or shoes, or sandwiches in the year or so I've been running a tankbag. But my apples don't like the tankbag.

[Ixion]

So, a degaussing wand would do it?

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds it might discriminate me!

[notme]

Interesting point - magnets have a (duh) magnetic field surrounding them when in free space.

As soon as you put the magnet close enough to something that's a good conductor of magnetic flux (such as steel) the magnetic field is confined within the steel, cos it like going thru steel more than air.

So, while your tank bag is on the tank, there is almost no stray magnetic field to destroy credit cards and the like....and i've noticed my old bag had the top half of the magnets shielded anyway.

Of course, i might have to give the bag away for a beer because the CBR has a plastic cover where the tank should be

[Biff]

So, a degaussing wand would do it?

Hell yeah - or place it on top of the TV when you switch it on, to the tune of the degausse coil going "boinghmmmm".

The degaussing coil in a TV is a big killer for those VCR tapes that people are forever leaving on top of the TV. Or is it just my kids and Ms Biff?

[Sniper]

Hell yeah - or place it on top of the TV when you switch it on, to the tune of the degausse coil going "boinghmmmm".

Is that what that sound is, thanks for the new info

[vifferman]

But my apples don't like the tankbag.

Err... thanx, but that's a bit more personal than the info I was looking for.


Anyways, I tried the tankbag out last night, just to see iffenit would take my normal range of 'stuff' that goes in my backpack. Ayup - swallowed it with ease.
Shoes, cellphone, camera, watch, pants, lunchbox.
Didn't use it this morning though, as the weather was threatening inclemency (whateverthefookthatis) and I couldn't be bothered transferring stuff from my backpack and sorting out where to put my horrible wet-weather gloves and my slippery wet-weather pants.

Heh. Freaked my wife out last night - emailed her (in response to a very expensive clothes-buying expedition she told me about) and said I'd bought a new $850 helmet, $300 gloves, $250 tankbag, and put a deposit on a Sprint ST.
She saw me from the bus last night and told me, "You were just kidding - you were still wearing your old helmet when I saw you go past the bus!" But (however!) if I'd wanted to prolong the anguish, I could've told her quite correctly that Kerry would've had to order a helmet for me, and the Sprint isn't due for a few days. Instead, I let her off the hook, and told her I had no intention of buying anything. She loved the tankbag though - it's pretty damned kewl.

[James Deuce]

The new little wee tankbag I got sticks really well to the metal plate in my head. Keeps my hands free for other things.

[Sniper]

The new little wee tankbag I got sticks really well to the metal plate in my head. Keeps my hands free for other things.

I wondered what that nasty pimple thing was

[vifferman]

The new little wee tankbag I got sticks really well to the metal plate in my head. Keeps my hands free for other things.

Do the magnetic field enhance or interfere with 'normal' (for you) brain activity?

Hey - if the new little wee tankbag sticks to the plate, it must be steel or iron. Do you have to drink copious (that's "cop-PEEEEE-us") quantities of Coke (TM) to stop it rusting? :spudwhat:

[vifferman]

Took my rack off today, and test-rode the new tankbag. It easily swallowed all my AssortedCrap(TM) without the need to expand its height. The bike looked weird without the packrack on, but handled a little better without the pendulous weight to the rear of the back axle.

[dawnrazor]

I watched a show on discovery a while ago (i was unemployed and had nufin beta to do) The show was called mythbusters and they tryed to kill a credit card with magnets and unless you scratch the shit out of the magnetic strip on the back they were all sweet... and they had some big magnets...

saw same program, and was about to comment the same thing, the magnet myth is very over rated, in fact you have more chance of doing damage to the strips by inserting then into bank machines that have been poorly maintained, and are exposed to weather, grit and dust get into the slot and tear the crap out of the strip very easily.