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+3Meldrew john grinsel wingnprayer 7 posters | Author | Message |
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wingnprayer Maxi-Scooter Rider
Number of posts : 166 Points : 5845 Registration date : 2009-06-27
| Subject: What to do with all that kit when you arrive? Wed Jun 15, 2011 9:38 am | |
| OK, so you've got the underseat space for the lids and maybe you've got a top box for one person's jacket, trousers, gloves, boots, etc. But what about the pillion's gear.... and what if you wanted to take a picnic or something else.
I give you one possible solution:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pacsafe-StuffSafe-Waterproof-Secure-Stuffsack/dp/B000YOLDZS/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
Does anyone know of an alternative/cheaper system or have another solution?
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| | | john grinsel Curmudgeon
Number of posts : 3309 Age : 85 Points : 9424 Registration date : 2009-08-18
| Subject: Re: What to do with all that kit when you arrive? Wed Jun 15, 2011 9:50 am | |
| I just take it off and leave with/on bike---or even in unlocked top box.
I use cheap DOT helmets...of no value to thief...and they usually stink, too.
Over 56 year period--in asia/europe/mexico/central america, never lost anything from bike including lots of carried gear. Once in Italy, 1959, was using shot/dirty jacket as blanket as I took nap---somebody took it off me, not bike.
If not too hot, I just leave jacket/pants on....I am not hiding the fact I rode in----meeting my boss at Rhein-Main AP, in my wet/dirty Aerostich some idiot tried have me thrown out of AP Bar---screw 'em, it didn't work.
John Grinsel |
| | | Meldrew Visiting Curmudgeon
Number of posts : 4211 Location : York, North Yorkshire, England UK Points : 9404 Registration date : 2010-11-16
| Subject: Re: What to do with all that kit when you arrive? Wed Jun 15, 2011 10:02 am | |
| I had this problem with storing the pillion riders kit, and solved it buy using a Pacsafe 55litre net with an Ortlieb waterproof stuff sack. It takes all Mrs M's gear with ease and I secure it to the passenger seat with the cable and padlock through one hand rail, and by passing a helmet cable through the mesh and securing it to the other hand rail with a second padlock. "Works for me."
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| Subject: Re: What to do with all that kit when you arrive? Wed Jun 15, 2011 11:24 am | |
| I love the word "kit." We don't have a good word for that here. We would use "junk" or "stuff." Or in George Carlin's language, "if it's your shit it's stuff. If it's someone else's stuff it's shit."
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| | | Meldrew Visiting Curmudgeon
Number of posts : 4211 Location : York, North Yorkshire, England UK Points : 9404 Registration date : 2010-11-16
| Subject: Re: What to do with all that kit when you arrive? Wed Jun 15, 2011 11:44 am | |
| - DuggleBogey wrote:
- I love the word "kit." We don't have a good word for that here. We would use "junk" or "stuff." Or in George Carlin's language, "if it's your shit it's stuff. If it's someone else's stuff it's shit."
Stuff Carson was just another buckskin clad frontiersman until he changed his name to Kit! |
| | | redeye Maxi-Scooter Rider
Number of posts : 163 Location : Fannin County, Georgia Points : 5297 Registration date : 2010-10-13
| Subject: Re: What to do with all that kit when you arrive? Wed Jun 15, 2011 5:06 pm | |
| On a couple occasions, I have carried extra gear in one of two seabags Uncle Sam issued to me during my US Marine Corps service that I still own and use many years later.
They are very heavy canvas, hold their shape nicely, and lockable at one end. By not filling it all the way, it works as an oversize tunnel bag. With a bicycle cable lock, there's enough security to prevent a snatch and run while parked, but not a determined thief.
It's not a perfect solution, but good for a need that arises every now and then, and the price is right.
http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/cbaker8702_2158_56720255 |
| | | trouble1100 Touring Scooter Rider
Number of posts : 341 Location : Surprise, AZ. Points : 5754 Registration date : 2010-04-30
| Subject: Re: What to do with all that kit when you arrive? Wed Jun 15, 2011 5:40 pm | |
| Time to trade? |
| | | billc. Maxi-Scooter Rider
Number of posts : 189 Age : 75 Location : Atlanta, Ga. Points : 5579 Registration date : 2010-02-19
| Subject: Re: What to do with all that kit when you arrive? Thu Jun 16, 2011 9:13 am | |
| The Pacific Coast 800 was YEARS ahead of its time!! billc. Loved mine, but love the S'wing much more the older I get. |
| | | KurtPerthWA Silver Wing Guru
Number of posts : 1711 Age : 75 Location : Belmont, Perth WA Points : 8123 Registration date : 2009-01-19
| Subject: Re: What to do with all that kit when you arrive? Thu Jun 16, 2011 11:39 am | |
| Theives be afraid, be very afraid!! |
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