Throw-overs, a warning from a dual-carriageway

[martybabe]

Just a quick one I'm off to whangapopodom or somewhere.
Got me some of them throw over panniers once and the only cargo in em was my beloved hair brush,so I turned to the bride and said darling put your sweet fat ass on top o them and don't wiggle till we reach the mansion.An hour later we arived home and I went to retrieve the lug brush cause I'd got a serious out break of helmet hair, and fecks me she'd wiggled aint she! No sign of me shiney new panniers at all.Off I go back up the dual carriage way......bugger all,no battered boxes and more importantly no spiggin hair brush.Throw overs are now called disposible panniers in our house'

The moral of this tale is clearly...Get a wife with a bigger ass or yum gona lose yer hair brush init!
P.S. I aint got any hair at all now so if any one finds me brush on a tiki tour of the uk,I'd like it back for tansplant purposes,thank you.

[Taz]

was it too hard to secure them to the bike in some way?:spudwhat:

[Tortron]

are there not usually ties underneath them

[Tank]

The moral of this tale is clearly...Get a wife with a bigger ass or yum gona lose yer hair brush init!

Dude - I met your wife and if her arse was any bigger her cheeks would have been scraping on the tarmac.

[martybabe]

Dude - I met your wife and if her arse was any bigger her cheeks would have been scraping on the tarmac.

Blimey you have met the wife

[martybabe]

was it too hard to secure them to the bike in some way?:spudwhat:

er yes, yes it was.

are there not usually ties underneath them

er no, no there wasn't

[rwh]

On my old bike, I had a horrible complicated bit of string to hold them on.

On the new bike, I put them under the seat. No way they're going to move.

Richard

[pritch]

Just a quick one I'm off to whangapopodom or somewhere.

There was this nice new Fatbob at Whangamomona today parked outside the pub. Sort of just around the corner from about twenty something bikes belonging to KiwiBikers.

If that was you, sorry we missed you :-)

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...=59625&page=25

[martybabe]

There was this nice new Fatbob at Whangamomona today parked outside the pub. Sort of just around the corner from about twenty something bikes belonging to KiwiBikers.

If that was you, sorry we missed you :-)

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...=59625&page=25

I've pm'd you, awsome day!

[martybabe]

see I'm kinda laughing at meself herethe fact that I relied on me brides botty instead of doin the job properly is a silly thing to do and thats why its funny.Its not a real warning..........oh forget it I'm off

[scumdog]

Well Sunday on the way home form the Magpie Madness the same thing happened to CB, she was on the Sporty with a pair of throw overs thrown over the pillion seat unsecured - I've ridden that bike like that heaps.

But due to the extra-strength side wind one bag flipped up and over the seat, CB felt it move, reachedaround withher left hand just in time to catch the bags.

Good save - but now she's riding with one hand, holding onto a heavy pair of saddle-bags with her left hand and no way of pulling in the clutch.

So she just pulled over to the side of the road and just as the Sporty was about to stall she dropped the bags and grabbed the clutch.

No damage to bag or contents and a bungy borrowed from NightHawk made sure they stayed in place for the rest of the trip.

[vifferman]

So she just pulled over to the side of the road and just as the Sporty was about to stall she dropped the bags and grabbed the clutch.

Good work, that!
Didja train her yourself, or is she self-taught?

[martybabe]

Well Sunday on the way home form the Magpie Madness the same thing happened to CB, she was on the Sporty with a pair of throw overs thrown over the pillion seat unsecured - I've ridden that bike like that heaps.

But due to the extra-strength side wind one bag flipped up and over the seat, CB felt it move, reachedaround withher left hand just in time to catch the bags.

Good save - but now she's riding with one hand, holding onto a heavy pair of saddle-bags with her left hand and no way of pulling in the clutch.

So she just pulled over to the side of the road and just as the Sporty was about to stall she dropped the bags and grabbed the clutch.

No damage to bag or contents and a bungy borrowed from NightHawk made sure they stayed in place for the rest of the trip.

now thats what I'm talkin about sir i shall be forced to bling your ass,for gettin into the spirit o the thing.

[WRT]

Good save - but now she's riding with one hand, holding onto a heavy pair of saddle-bags with her left hand and no way of pulling in the clutch.

So she just pulled over to the side of the road and just as the Sporty was about to stall she dropped the bags and grabbed the clutch.

Clutch? Don't HD's have a neutral?

Still a nice save though.

I had a backpack fly open going over the harbour bridge a few years back. Turns out that if you have a backpack with a double zip on it, you should always make sure the zips are both pulled to one side, rather than meeting in the middle at the top. The wind got in between them and just peeled the bag open.

I had a folded newspaper on the top inside the bag and that went all over the road, but I didn't loose much else luckily. I managed to get my left arm out of the straps and swing it down onto my lap and hold it there till I pulled over.

[scumdog]

Good work, that!
Didja train her yourself, or is she self-taught?

Self taught, I never even thought about telling her stuff like that, so far she seems to have picked up this riding hsit pretty good - and DOES listen to what I say.
(Dunno if I mentioned: This was her first long trip on the Sporty which apart from the odd 10km pootle she had not ridden up until a fornight ago - her last long trip was in about '83 on her Kwaka 175...)