Carrying anything on a sports bike - how?

Aha, a Google search has turned that up and the prices aren't too bad
either. Thanks for the pointer, I'm a little happier about the
practicality of a sports bike now.

 

Wotcha.

Yep.
I used to tow a "Freewheel" trailer with my old 1100 'Wing.
Never gave my any cause for concern, even at speeds well over the legal
limit.
Once again, the main drawback is the inability to filter, but I found the
plus point outweighed that.
I still have the same trailer, but the 'Wing has long since gone.

Hmm - for some reason, that trailer usually seems full of dog food.
http://www.moonshiners.org.uk/mag2002petfood.htm
http://home.freeuk.net/thewolf/colman.htm

 

That's what I really wanted, a rack which can have a top box on it if
necessary, now I have that Renntec pointer I'm happy!

 

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and.........how was it

'Hog

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, 'Hog

Very flat, so one hears.

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I know my main bike is nothing like the modern sports bikes but it
doesn't have much in the way of luggage options so it maybe a useful
comparison from that point of view.

I find a tank bag interferes with the steering and doesn't sit on the
tank that well because the filler cap is proud of the tank.

I simply bungee a holdall to the pillion seat. It works well and allows
me to be able to take a good weekends worth of camping gear.

For day to day stuff I have a courier bag.

 

A trailer made by Freewheel, who made the Sidewinder tilting sidecar.

Hitched to a CX500 Custom, given to them by Motorcycle City as
compenation for nicking the Siewinder design, which was patented to the
hilt. Seriously.

It was fine. You just didn't notice the trailer was there, most of the
time.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, The Older Gentleman amazed us all with this pearl
of wisdom:

Oh yes, that was the way I was going to get a GPZ900 on L-plates![1]

[1] Mid to late teen fantasy, obviously.

 

I have an R6 with a Renntec sports rack and have found it excellent. With
that to strap sleeping bag and thermarest to and an Oxford tailpack for my
other odds and sods, I've toured all over the place, including riding down
to Munich or a week or so when I was still living in Scotland.

 

says...

Oxford Sports tank-bag, tailpack and throwover panniers. Don't buy the
Hump-back stuff if you can help it because the capacity is drastically
reduced over the Sports stuff. Forget what anyone says about tail-packs
being dangerous, those cunts just don't know how to use bungees
properly. Stick a cargo net over the tailpack if it worries you that
much.

 

'Hog says...

XR400R like my old one, same size physically but with a little more
power, and so much better when fitted with the HRC carb kit and with the
exhaust derestricted. FWIW, even then I found my XR400R woefully
underpowered compared to stuff like DRZs and WRs. I also didn't like the
fact that the XR was kickstart only.

 

Whinging Courier says...

A mate of mine had one on a 350LC and then an FZ750 years after the 125
law came out.

 

Nah, dump the surplus mass and just wear the rucksack.

 

Not at all: mountains beyond the wit of Fen man.

 

Yer but it's a sports bike, so how much stuff dya wanna take?

AOL

I swapped out the Oxford bungees on the bottom of my tail-pack for
some 10mm beauties!

It didn't budge a inch in France.

 

Didn't do much filtering, then?

 

from what I gather, once you're over the initial lurch then
filtering's fine.

 

There has to be some sort of weight limit!!!

'Hog

 

OTOH they do take you about half a fucking hour to fit on the bike
every morning.

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Filtering's fine with a trailer.

Not with a Sidewinder tilting sidecar, mind. I remember collecting a
lamp-post and at least one pedestrian leaping for cover.