BMW luggage

I'd quite like to lob a couple of those hard BMW panniers on the R650LS
- what's involved oh BMW foak?

What sort of price should I expect to pay?

 

You just need the OE frames
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BMW-R45-R65-p...99?pt=UK_Motorcycle_Parts&hash=item23101d7363
and a couple of the early boxes
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BMW-panniers-/150602676786?pt=UK_Motorcycle_Parts&hash=item23109e7a32
or the later K ones
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BMW-panniers-...65?pt=UK_Motorcycle_Parts&hash=item3367960e25

easy to fit.

 

I've got a pair and frames with all the mounting brackets, that came
off an old R80. Decent Krausers, no cracks or damage, wiv keys. Yours
for £85 the lot. They should bolt straight on.

 

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That's one of the twin-shocker R80s, not the Monolever one.

 

The later K rails don't bolt straight onto the twin-shock boxers, do
they?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Simon Wilson

I've just recalled that I recently came across a pair of frames that
came wih the bike (no panniers).

Yours if you can collect.

 

Yes please.

 

What price wivout the frames?

 

no

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Simon Wilson

Righty-ho.

 

£65

 

Sold.

 

Sudden thought - depends on the frames. If the frames are these ones
Hog mentioned:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BMW-R45-R65-pannier-frames-/150594220899?pt=UK_

my panniers won't fit.

Mine are the type that mounted the old Starlet panniers - made of a
sort of nylon, with a steel tongue that locates into a slot on the
rear of the panniers. Hog will know the type I mean.:

I think these are the badgers:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/170638482448

 

In other words for the Krauser luggage system and not for the BMW OE frames.
There is a Krauser frame system on eBay but perhaps using the standard parts
will be more hassle free
The later type boxes with the folding catches are probably better, none of
them really waterproof though!

 

Hmmm complicated - maybe I'd better get the frames off WUN first and
take a look.

 

Yes, Hog is right. Mine are Krauser frames and panniers, and the BMW
OE frames are definitely different. Krauser stuff is probably better,
and there's certainly much more of it about, plus the fittings make
them adpatable to many bikes. I fitted an identical kit to this to:-

The 400 Four
The GT750 Slut Bike
A mate's Yamaha TDM850
and a Suzuki DR350 (of all things)

whereas the OE BMW frames will only fit BMWs.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Simon Wilson

Would be a good idea, because *all* I know about them is that I got them
with the bike. They may not even fit! ;^)

 

like this
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Krauser-panni...46?pt=UK_Motorcycle_Parts&hash=item3cb7ca606e

 

That's the style of mine, yes, only without those circular doobries on
the frames.

 

"Universal fitment" = "fits just about anything badly".

While I'm about it:

"Quality finish" = "Smoothrite"

"Made by OE supplier" = "Of kit car bits"

"Not your usual Chinese junk" = "No, nothing nautical about it at all"

"Not the usual rubbish" = "Really unusual rubbish"

"Made in our own Far Eastern factory" = "Mounting instructions in
Vietnamese"

"Race tested" = "We export these to Africa"

And as someone else once observed, a good rule of thumb is to avoid
any accessory named after a race circuit.