Italian design genius...

[daemonoid]

I've never really bothered with storage on my bike. I used to occasionally put a bottle of coke under the seat of my Hyo but haven't really thought about it since I got the monster.

However I'm now motoring in Europe and they love to see your papers over here, so I thought I'd take a look see if there was any.

I obviously started by removing the seat. Unfortunately the locking mechanism had seized, but 20mins of waggling and sticking various bits of metal in as a lever and it popped off:

https://cdn.bikechatforums.com/files/wp_20120811_0.jpg

Clearly no decent storage under the seat though. But what's this? a little bolt covering a flap.

https://cdn.bikechatforums.com/files/wp_20120811_1.jpg

Upstairs I run to get a screw driver, and ooh what's that? a little Ducati pouch, doesn't look like it's ever been touched by a greasy human hand before. Oooh the excitement...

https://cdn.bikechatforums.com/files/wp_20120811_2.jpg

Oh, it's the screwdriver I needed 5 mins ago to get into the little flap in the first place. I've got one of those already! You teasing little Italians, why does everything need to be like a puzzle from the Da Vinci code?

https://cdn.bikechatforums.com/files/wp_20120811_3.jpg
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[DrDonnyBrago]

Fit these, keep papers in hidey hole:

https://www.nuts-bolts-screws.net/prd/wing-screw.jpg

[moppy]

Genius.

[daemonoid]

[Timmeh]

My Belgarda TZR used to have a lockable box in the back of the tail fairing.

I say lockable, cos you could pull it open if you tried hard enough.

Damn handy for keeping the emergency toolkit, porn mag, 2T oil and stash of spark plugs though.


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[pendulum]

Are you sure the side of the key wouldn't have opened that screw? It looks like its got a ridge (slot type) that goes all the way across where the flat side of a key might fit.
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[salty21]

It's not just the italians, the toolkit on a cbr600rr is behind the right hand fairing panel, which you need a screwdriver to remove two screws and ideally a 5mm allen key to get to . Everytime i look at it i have a little chuckle to myself
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[Kawksam]

the original fazars 600s had a rubber flap covering a hole in the tail for the tool kit and accessing rear light usegul for documents as only need to remove seat