Tank bag issues

Wouldnt it be cheaper to buy a Bagster cover and tank bag than to buy a new tank??

Yeah i wouldnt do it M8 could you imagine breakdown in france due to a tank leak or something related to it.

Just get a few straps and bobs your dads brother

I have a baglux tank cover in red. £30. I may have a tank bag too... will have to check.

I carry about 10 - 15 kg of climbing gear in mine.

Fx

if you need the rear seat pad call eddy at Taz peterborough (used parts Dept) as he has one kicking about, tell him i told you... hes a good guy to know

Other option is to get an old rear seat or reat unit, get a GIVI mounting plate and attach it.

Then get yourself a GIVI back box and use that instead of a tank bag.

Works for me, and doesnt effect the handling or the sitting position...

Why don't you get yourself some kriega luggage, they do awesome tailpacks also they do a converter to change a tailpack into a tankbag.
I think the website is www.kriega.com
I can personally vouch for the kit, it's top notch and will probably work out cheaper than the other options you've mentioned :thumbup

I bought a cheap buffalo one for touring in Morocco last Summer. It's got whacking great magnets in it that were great for my old SRAD and pretty pointless on a plastic tank...
there's a strap on the bag that goes round the headstock and I secure it with the bungy cords that came with it. they hook under the recesses in the fairing and dont foul the fairing or seem to rub anywhere. I've done hundreds of miles with it like that and had no problems.

I got a grab rail off flea bay for a tenner... it bolts on to the fairing bolts under the cowl/seatpad. It makes my bike look like a lawnmower but it's fecking enormous; you could strap anything to that. I've had two push bikes, a ladder and a canoe on there before now.

milliemonkey said:

An RSVR with a back box?? Are you sh1tting me?

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Not in the slightest...

But while you are getting all your luggage soaked, and trying your hardest to strap it on. Or sitting with ya neck nesting on a massive tank bag...

I will be..............

Not at all worried about the rain, and able to take the back box off in a matter of seconds...

So no.. I ain't shitting ya!!! :biggrin

I use a kriega tail pack on my 02 Mille. Top quality, goot fit and there's a tank bag conversion for £15 quid I think. As a Tail pack you get 20 litres as standard, plus another 2 x 10 litre add-ons (at extra cost).

Originally Posted by milliemonkey
An RSVR with a back box?? Are you sh1tting me?

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E-man is right.

Several rides with Badgers lot in sunny.....ahem.....Scotland where several Mille guys had KTM type branded /copies (Givi rebranded, so good stuff) top boxes made me go that route. I bought a ripped rear seat unit of the bay of fleas, then took the foam and ripped cover off, where I am bolting a Givi base plate to it and using a 37litre top box.

Fully waterproof, big enough for a weeks touring, takes seconds to take off and put on and is as secure as the royal mint on a bad day.

As I don't use the rear underseat stowage (It's full of Dynojet PCIII & Inforad) I get two longer M5 bolts and put them through the seat unit and into the bolt holes that hold the rear plastics onto the frame. It's absolutely rock solid and is a good back rest if you so want. (Keep a socket in the toolkit in the bottom of the top box and you can still remove it if you needed too......absolutely excellent, no pissing about in the rain whilst those who have humpbacks etc faff about with straps etc.

I have a Full set of Oxford panniers and a hump back if you want it, used just once excellent condition-PM me with an offer if you are crazeeee enough to not take our advice on the top box.

If you check out "bikersoracle" and search for top box you will find the posts relating to this.......LINK HERE

My Old 02 with Oxford sports paniers:

Hi!I use an old BMW(r1100rt)tank bag which aero elastics under the tank with clips/straps to the front.Have just bought a Kriega R20 rucksack,brilliant kit with US20 and US10 backpacks/extenders rucksack.Have as new Knox rucksak £20.

Here is another photo of one taken from the bikers oracle website...




Trying to think of the right saying....

Function over fashion maybe? or something like that!!! :thumbup

Just found this link too

http://www.customlids.co.uk/bags/shad/shad_motorcases.htm


They all seem one hell of a lot cheaper than the Givi stuff too....

Mine came from them......I still have not fitted it though.....doh!:dunno