Luggage space?

[dfirth]

Luggage space? I think it destroys the bikes personality with 2 big boxes sticking out of its rear end, does anyone find it effects your handling?!!!
What do you think about it?

[Bendy]

It gives you somewhere to put stuff.

[mr jamez]

[instigator]

Luggage looks cool on lots of bikes!!!!./:d:d:d

And before you ask, yes I was dropped on my head as a baby

[AGE996]

[G]

Think a R1200GS adventure version has soooo much more style than another duke 916 shape .

[TheShaggyDA]

I think luggage is integral to some bike's character :-

https://predator.bikepics.com/pics/bmw-r100rt-79-bikepics-202568.jpg

https://www.btinternet.com/~haywards.cambs/haywards/Armybullet.jpg
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[dfirth]

ye but wouldnt it be cool if there was space intergrated into the bike for all sorts?

[G]

Not really.

As I mentioned in another thread, you might want to find out a bit more about biking. Get 'into' it a bit.

Bikes are made to be compact, which is why the ones not desinged for touring don't have luggage space.

If you start to put space in a bike, then you are taking away other features.
The big sports bikes have a lot of technology fitted into a very small space. It has been said that bikes are closer to a F1 car than to your average day to day car.

[Gazdaman]

My MZ's got a top box, (I need somewhere to keep the emergency tools).

Gaz

[yambabe]

Luggage on a bike is an (occasionally) necessary evil.

Removable luggage is best!

And whether it affects your handling depends on how much stuff you have actually managed to stuff into it.......

However, an advantage (or disadvantage, depending on your point of view) of luggage is that fully loaded with camping gear etc, apparently a small bike is MUCH easier to wheely.......
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[TheShaggyDA]

[mchaggis]

[map]

As said before some bikes don't look right without luggage.
Sport bikes can have removable, usually soft, panniers that don't affect the handling. In fact a top box will affect the bike more than panniers. Sportier bikes can usually get away with a tank bag and a tail pack. That doesn't affect things too much as it's all in the centre line of the bike, just raises the centre of gravity a bit.

That's the fun about bike, different one for different things. There's even a few that'll do a bit of both (ever seen a Pan-European at a track day - scary ). Know someone who swears by his R1150GS for touring and takes the boxes off for fun at the weekends
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[stryker]

Just remember you've got the boxes on when you go to filter eh?
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[instigator]

On the subject, Can anyone recommend a good tank bag? OXFORD seems to be the one to go for these days, they go for good prices on eBay

[Sadie]

If you go for Oxford, be sure to go for the Lifetime Luggage. I bought a tank bank about three years ago at the Ally Pally show from a dealer whose name I could no longer remember when, after 50,000 miles in all weathers, the zip eventually broke.

TBH, the zip (and the bag) had been thoroughly abused.

I called Oxford to see if they could repair it, and pointed out that I no longer had the receipt and did not know who the supplier was.

I was told to return it to the nearest Oxford dealer (which happened to be J&S in Watford, who I like to deal with, despite what's being said on another thread!).

I returned the bag to J&S who sent it to Oxford, who sent me a new all singing all dancing new one within a week.

Not bad, thinks I!


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[zx636]

For those that want to carry untold amounts of luggage etc there is most definately a machine for you.




Its called a car

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[Demonic69]

[stryker]

Bulldog bash, thats why I still have my trike.
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[WildGoose]

sadie, you actually like to deal with J&S in Watford?

you dont find them a bunch of know nothing monkeys?

my track record of getting what i ask for in there is fairly limited, and their knowlegde of products, and advice is pretty crap

i only buy from there when i know exactly what i want

useful to have it 3 mins from my door, but it really is an effort to shop there sometimes
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[stinkwheel]

Well, I think my supermoto looks well smart with the two big aluminium panniers I recently fitted to it, in a 'Paris-Dakkar' kind of way.

They have a low C of G and are fixed rigidly so they don't really affect the handling at all. They are too wide to fit through my gate but are narrower than the handlebars so filtering is not a problem.
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