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Remember folks, secure your luggage straps...aka

ha ha Karbon's butt lists to the left.



glad you dinae go down laddy
 
Thanks for the heads up / reminder Karbon:thumbup

Re: securing stuff......

Was following a friend on a trip back from Glacier Nat'l park and it was hot. He had 4 frozen water bottles wedged under the netting strapped over his tail bag. When those things worked loose they would slide across the lane like a spinning hockey puck.

A few yrs before that I joined some friends for our annual trip out to Death Valley. Packed a box of 44 spl ammo under the rear seat. Heading south east out of death valley I thought I had an exhaust leak and wondered what the hell was causing the intermittent backfire. Could actually feel it on my boot. When we got to our destination out in the desert I found that I was short about 1/2 a box of ammo.
 
ob1ventura said:
Thanks for the heads up / reminder Karbon:thumbup

Re: securing stuff......

Was following a friend on a trip back from Glacier Nat'l park and it was hot. He had 4 frozen water bottles wedged under the netting strapped over his tail bag. When those things worked loose they would slide across the lane like a spinning hockey puck.

A few yrs before that I joined some friends for our annual trip out to Death Valley. Packed a box of 44 spl ammo under the rear seat. Heading south east out of death valley I thought I had an exhaust leak and wondered what the hell was causing the intermittent backfire. Could actually feel it on my boot. When we got to our destination out in the desert I found that I was short about 1/2 a box of ammo.
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WHOA! that's kind of awesome in a horrific kind of way.
 
Wack said:
Once you resolve how to avoid the easy mistakes it's time to enjoy advanced FUBARs. Thermarest air mattress in saddle bag expanded from heat from the slip on. This caused the soft luggage to get too friendly with the rear tyre, generating more heat and expansion until the assembly got sucked into the rear wheel/swingarm. This locked the rear at 80 MPH on 25, pulling the clutch in didn't help the confused rider any and severely flat spotted the new rear tyre. He was lucky and kept the bike up. The skid mark on the asphalt was almost as long and dark as the one in his shorts.
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Yep, Long story-short, about a BMW rider, Bungee strap broke or came off one side of a packed bag...bag rotated over, and into the rear wheel, locked up wheel on bike doing a "go with the flow" 75 MPH. Fishtailed off the freeway and then bike is cartwheeling. Rider in intensive care (don't know outcome) bike totaled. And this is in Portland Ore. Rider is from the East coast (long ways from home).

Like everything else, use your brain, like your life depends on it.
 
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Glad you're okay my friend, a RIP thread for my favorite clever-sonofabitch would break my heart.

I watched a sleeping bag get sucked into a close friend's undertail at 90mph, witnessing the ensuing mayhem left an indelible mark on me. Thankfully he survived, the bike and sleeping bag did not.

In all truth, that night we made a prospect sleep in what was left of the sleeping bag.
 
Holy shit! That could have been really bad. Glad it was just the metal and plastic!
 
This thread makes me :wtf

The hard cases on the C14 look like a better idea all the time. Better than trying to pack mule my CBR.
 
Holy bent subframe Batman - glad you did not go down from this! Some of the other stories in this thread are pretty scary too.

I stopped using a soft tailbag when one of the securing straps jumped loose after hitting a bump and went through the chain - result - tailbag with laptop went bouncing down the 3 lane part of Geary. Somehow the laptop survived.

Tankbag and/or hard luggage FTW these days, though even with those you need to be sure there are no loose straps hanging out of anywhere...
 
Beauregard said:
Glad you're okay my friend, a RIP thread for my favorite clever-sonofabitch would break my heart.
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aww shucks :3



Beauregard said:
I watched a sleeping bag get sucked into a close friend's undertail at 90mph, witnessing the ensuing mayhem left an indelible mark on me. Thankfully he survived, the bike and sleeping bag did not.

In all truth, that night we made a prospect sleep in what was left of the sleeping bag.
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:laughing:laughing
never a dull moment!
 
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