Unsecured bag on a Speed Triple? What could go wrong?

[Mario_Kempes]

https://www.bandin.info/uploaded_images/2010/11/motoabrasada1.jpg

https://www.bandin.info/uploaded_images/2010/11/motoabrasada2.jpg

https://www.bandin.info/uploaded_images/2010/11/motoabrasada3.jpg

[moppy]

Looks like your seats got bad aids.

[Richtea]

Gutted! How did that happen? Bag fallen to one side and melted on the exhaust?
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[Tungtvann]

Bag of what? Lava?!

[gavbriggs]

Looks like you had a bag of thermite on there

[Harrier Hound]

Bag slides onto exhaust, bag catches fire, fire starts to eat lovely bike.

OP stops at traffic lights, guy in car next to him says "Hey! You're on fire!" OP looks at guy and says smugly "Yeh, I'm really cooking..." as he cracks a wheelie off the line...

[Welshd1k]

shouldn't melt / catch fire unless its on the meta tip as the Cf doesn't get that hot ???

and I suspect a battery pack gone pop
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[Rob W]

Looks like you need a new rear tyre as well as a new rear end.
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[stinkwheel]

[Moxey]

Cousin rode across the Ozz outback a few years back on a KLR650, he was too stingy to buy proper panniers but neither did he have the ingenuity to fashion some out of suitable materials i.e. not wood with the high rise exhaust.

Cue him riding along in the outback being "chased" by a pickup truck that was actually trying to warn him that the RH of his bike was on fire , they caught up with him in a petrol station of all places and he finally realised what they were shouting at him
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'I was too busy paying attention to pay attention'

[Shaft]

Never had any catch fire, but I did have a set of throwovers (which I thought were secure) slip across and get wedged between the chain and the swingarm, locking the back wheel.

Only sheer luck that didn't end in a nasty off.
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[Nemo]

Im sure there's a more conventional way to warm up you tyre
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[Mario_Kempes]

Not my bike, thankfully. I took it from this bloghttps://www.bandin.info/2010/11/como-conducir-una-moto-en-la-brasa.

The guy was at the end of a 500km trip from Vigo to Ourense when he started to feel a bit of heat. He then clocked smoke in his mirrors and turned around to see the bag, that he had attached to the back seat with a bungee net, was on fire with flames and smoke pishing out the back.

It had slipped down and been in contact with the Arrows. Obviously for some time.

While he was at the side of the road the only person who stopped was a Portuguese trucker. There's not the same sense of solidarity with Spanish bikers as there's just so many of them and bikes are just seen as another form of transport rather than a special interest. A bit shit but there you go.

The trucker said that he'd been sounding his horn at him for a couple of minutes but he clearly hadn't heard him.

[Rogerborg]

I'm just glad that the fad of high level exhausts on street bikes seems to be coming to a long overdue end.
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[moppy]

[stinkwheel]

[moppy]

Would it not get a bit crowded on the other side though? I can't see that it does on the RC30, but lets return to exhibit A.

https://s30.postimg.org/w4fq1pia5/middle1_4.jpg

This swingarm is a work of art. If I'd made this, I'd want to show it off. But then, the wheel is also gorgeous, so god knows why they put that hideous exhaust in the way.

Meh, I've never lived with high level exhausts so dunno how much of a pain they are.

[recman]

They can be a stinging pain as I found out last summer after an all dayer.
It was hot so I decided to strip off down to my shorts before putting the bike away in the tight space that is the shed and consequently burnt my leg rather close to the tackle.
I suppose a low level exhaust would have burnt my shin.

[stinkwheel]

[Mario_Kempes]

[Walloper]