Anyone leave luggage on their bike ?

[TheSmiler]

Just wondering, for those people who leave their bike outside; if you use a tank bag/panniers and do you leave them on your bike when you have parked it up for the night

Also if you do what kind do you use as they would have to be good quality and waterproof I assume
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[Tomzo47]

I usually do if its only for a few minutes, anything longer than an hour I wouldn't bother. Anything valuable goes in topbox/on me, otherwise scrotes will have it!
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[Joncrete Cungle]

No. Some lowlife scrote bag would probably steal it.

[covent.gardens]

I walk by bikes with the tank bag left on and think "that's stupid". Some opportunist will nick it sooner or later. One guy up where my girlfriend lives leaves his tankbag on overnight in full view of the main road, how it hasn't been nicked yet I do not know.

Only takes a minute to remove and refit a tank bag!

[Kradmelder]

Only where I can see the bike and within 9 mm range. I park the bike on the pavement next to where I'm sitting.

Our darkies will steal the milk out of your tea, and will steal your shadow if you stand still long enough

The ferarri racing team should fire their pit crew and hire our darkies. They will have the car up on blocks and the wheels off much faster. And probably hijack the competitors as well and have their cars stripped for parts faster than you can say f...n k..rs
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[snikks]

Wouldn't leave nice stuff on the bike overnight, as said, scrotes would nick it - and even the very best all-weather soft luggage is going to end up sun-bleached and with the water-proofing questionable at best if left outside too often.

If I was going to leave luggage attached to the bike for convenience I'd get the cheapest tatty second hand luggage I could find and whenever I packed anything in it, pack it in tied off carrier bags/bin bags if it needed water kept off. I tend to pack in plastic bags anyway rather than trust luggage waterproofing - segments stuff, takes basically no more weight or space, and effectively ensures waterproofing.

I wouldn't leave anything IN soft luggage, on the bike overnight, because it's just asking to have it nicked.
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[Dracon]

I use a tank bag and it's only attached by magnets, two second job to attach and remove.

[J.M.]

The only thing that I leave on my bike are things that I wouldn't miss if they were stolen.

Before I have left a helmet attached to the pillion seat whilst I took a nice long break inside of a service station at 2am.

Other than that the only thing that I've really left is waterproof trousers in the under the seat on my old cbr125.

[Derivative]

My bike is outside with top box attached.

I wouldn't leave anything of value in there in a public area overnight though. Waterproofs, hi vis, bottle of water. I don't think a top box would be that hard to break into if you wanted to.

I once left a road bicycle worth 500GBP+ outside a supermarket. Locked up, of course. Came back to find the pound shop lights missing. I mean, taking the 50GBP+ quick release wheel would have been too much hassle.

Soft luggage? No chance. Christ, if I saw a bike left overnight with a nice shiny tank bag, I might take it myself. Better me, an actual bike owner, than someone who's just going to rifle through and chuck it.

(I'm joking.)

I don't leave the soft 'mount' for my tank bag attached unless the bike is in my garden or another relatively hidden area.

[Kradmelder]

It sounds like you brits live in a crime ridden thief infested hell hole

Send all the buggers to australia ek se

I thought you had already done so lol!

Our lot have progessed far beyond the pilfering stage. That is just entry level for those aspiring to future political careers in the ANC where pilfering national coffers is almost the job description. True thieves Just hijack you, shoot you, and take the entire thing. That way they get the keys, your wallet and cell phone as well.
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[WannaBeDude]

They are darkies, if they were all fattys, they'd be fattys, hardly racially descriptive to me, don't care, the robbing fuckers are rife and ruthless in SA and in the main, are black, darky E -

He's still racist, prefer to challenge him when he's displaying it in all its glory rather than an accurate description of darkys robbing.
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[kawashima]

I leave my top box on my bike when I park at night. I use bike cover for Gold Wing. It covers TDM+topbox.
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[covent.gardens]

[TheSmiler]

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[kawakid]

At work I often leave stuff on my bike at work including luggage, shopping etc. I often go inside and leave the engine running on my bike.

Been at my work 15 years, not one theft. It does help being in a secure compound though. (Passes in, passes out, cctv etc).

Saying that I called in at Asda on my way home last week and had a sports bag tied down to the back. No problem, it was there when I came out.
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