Touring luggage

[klingon]

Klingon, your husband looks really pissed at discovering what is attached to the rear of his bike...

he he yeah.
"I was wondering what was poking me in the ribs every time I rode past a cafe! Oi! What's SHE doing there?!"

They don't call me klingon for nothing

[Hailwood]

So far we use a set of leather saddlebags and a 30litre bag which fits over the sissy bar and ties to the luggage rack on the back..had a look at some HD sissy bar bags but they are $500+ for about the same size as I have now!!!!

There is one from the Nelson? range that I am looking at together with the RJay Explorer bag..thanks for the tip about the rain cover though.......

Any more advice is always apprciated....and yes I have tried to talk the wife into taking less stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we all know how that goes down guys dont we..like a cup of cold sick

[Grub]

....and yes I have tried to talk the wife into taking less stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

An exceedingly dangerous practice my son. Female logic being as warped as it is, she will suggest that you get a cage instead!

Brett

[klingon]

An exceedingly dangerous practice my son. Female logic being as warped as it is, she will suggest that you get a cage instead!

LOL don't tar us all with the same brush! I'm very proud of my "bootcase" rule. If I'm going away for a weekend, I'm only allowed to take as much stuff as I can roll up and fit into my spare boots! (This does not include my spare visor - if I try to roll it up I get splinters in my toes.)

Fortunately my touring jacket has a zip-out lining that is quite passable as a jacket on its own and my boots are fairly decent for walking around in. So all I have to roll up are a couple of pairs of socks, some undies, jeans and a spare t-shirt.

I challenge most of you blokes to travel that lightly!

[Ixion]

Spare boots ? Spare BOOTS ? SPARE boots ? Typical woman. How many pairs of boots do you need? You only have one pair of feet, right ?

[vifferman]

I use Ventura.
You can mix and match sizes and I've got an Aero and a Spada that zip together so that one is on each side of the sissy bar.
I find them brilliant.

I dunno 'bout "brilliant", but they certainly do the job. On our Easter tour, that's what we had, plus a Motoline tankbag, and it was more'n enough for all our crap.

The only shortcomings are that it's not really waterproof (the seams leak in heavy rain) so you either have to buy the storm cover or stick plastic bags over stuff you don't want to get damp. Also, I found all the road spooge kicked up by the rear tyre worked in combination with the bags jiggling very slightly to wear most of the paint off the rack.

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

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