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Patrocclesiastes posted:I use a backpack... same. I run a kriega 15L backpack for commuting during the week in case I need to run small errands after work. panniers and top box are for weekend camping though looking forward to whenever mosko comes out with their backpacks though!
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Coydog posted:More like the "oh it's a beautiful day it would be awesome to ride my bike to work/go run up the long way to the store instead of taking the car" of motorcycling. You guys are hovering near the truth: nc700's are the new balance of bikes. Flip face helmet and goony top box are a side effect, like the little white socks and bum bag to go with the shoes. Me: why did you buy this bike? Everyone I've ever met with an nc700: is just so comfortable...i like it...
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If you wear jogging pants in public you are ready for biek luggage. You've given up, embrace the slow slide into oblivion.
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Jan 16, 2020 18:59
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I’m a dad, ride a dad bike and generally do dad stuff, so why not embrace the dadbiek aesthetic and go whole hog with luggage, hi-viz aerostitch and flip up helmet?
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Arson Daily posted:I’m a dad, ride a dad bike and generally do dad stuff, so why not embrace the dadbiek aesthetic and go whole hog with luggage, hi-viz aerostitch and flip up helmet? I'm a bike mechanic, I work from home and generally do bike mechanic stuff, why not embrace the aesthetic and go whole hog with a mullet, denim cutoffs and a box of Cody's? Dignity. The answer to both questions is dignity.
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Jan 16, 2020 19:13
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Patrocclesiastes posted:I use a backpack...  
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Jan 16, 2020 19:17
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Ridden home with many a frozen pizza in my lap on the scoot. Kind of annoying it's like the only grocery related thing I buy regularly that won't fit under the seat.
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Jan 16, 2020 19:26
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Arson Daily posted:I’m a dad, ride a dad bike and generally do dad stuff, so why not embrace the dadbiek aesthetic and go whole hog with luggage, hi-viz aerostitch and flip up helmet? doit. After hauling tons of inappropriate poo poo on small dualsports and sportbikes, dadbikes fuckin rule. Being able to haul more than a SF apartment does have merit. Gorson posted:If you wear jogging pants in public you are ready for biek luggage. You've given up, embrace the slow slide into oblivion. ^^^^ this.
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Slavvy posted:I'm a bike mechanic, I work from home and generally do bike mechanic stuff, why not embrace the aesthetic and go whole hog with a mullet, denim cutoffs and a box of Cody's? Tbh this is how I've always pictured you except with a kiwi accent and a tear stained letter from the AU government denying you a visa stuffed in a flannel shirt pocket.
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Jan 16, 2020 21:07
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CheddarGoblin posted:Ridden home with many a frozen pizza in my lap on the scoot. Kind of annoying it's like the only grocery related thing I buy regularly that won't fit under the seat. lol when camping at campsites I will often ride into town with my boxes still on. I can easily fit a six pack of tall boys plus several medium pizzas in my top box, which also keeps it warm til I get back to camp 
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Gorson posted:If you wear jogging pants in public you are ready for biek luggage. You've given up, embrace the slow slide into oblivion. I haven't given up enough to wear jogging pants but I can't seem to get anything done without bike luggage. Backpacks just hurt my back after a while which, yeah, I guess case in point: am old. If modulars were statistically safer I'd probably wear one and never take it off.
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Jan 16, 2020 22:08
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Buy a Goldwing, live your best dadlife
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I have a 70L topcase that I keep a wadded up army surplus duffle in (has straps so can be worn as a backpack, or can be strapped down by the ROK straps I leave on the rear crashbars). Duffle has saved me a few times out shopping when my eyes were bigger than my topcase. HONG KONG SLUMLORD posted:Can conform: Ducatis get you lots of dudes. Dudecati. Bikes in general are amazing old bloke magnets.
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Carth Dookie posted:Tbh this is how I've always pictured you except with a kiwi accent and a tear stained letter from the AU government denying you a visa stuffed in a flannel shirt pocket. NZ government* Citizenship* It's in my jeans pocket as I'm usually in t-shirts with bikes on them*
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You people are weirdos. It's just a place to put your stuff. You don't gotta make it a lifestyle, or desperately self deprecate yourselves until you can justify doing it. It's like the "Well, I would have a motorcycle but the wife yaknow and also the kids and just you know wink wink nudge nudge" argument. No dude. I don't know why you can't be level headed about your own desires or lack thereof. The only walls we have are the ones we build ourselves.
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The most exotic stuff I've transported on my bikes is a Moccamaster coffee machine and a long garden hose on a wheeled roller. My brother has me beat there, he's had gas grills and propane tanks.
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Jan 17, 2020 00:34
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Jan 17, 2020 00:34
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I've transported some cool things. 8 stools, a clothes rack from Ikea, two live lobsters and two bottles of Champagne. Not all at once, sadly.
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Jan 17, 2020 00:43
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 Brought two (empty) kegs back one at a time from the local tip shop on my CB125e a few years ago.
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Slavvy posted:It makes your bike look like boiled arse though? It annoys me that givi made this really ugly and cheap looking case and everyone else just decided to copy them. It's a terrible aesthetic design, to me. Pelican cases look dope on a bike, in contrast. The givi's look good on some bikes, depending on the design, such as that white 125 up there.
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Ola posted:I've transported some cool things. 8 stools, a clothes rack from Ikea, two live lobsters and two bottles of Champagne. Not all at once, sadly. I haven't done the lobsters, but I have done Ikea (it's amazing what you can strap down with one of those blue tarpaulin bags and bungee nets), assorted booze, and an espresso machine. (that was all on a bike that didn't have a top box)
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Jan 17, 2020 01:43
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I thought that was a full keg at first and was thinking you're a madman
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My favorite bike haul was tires. Just wore them around my waist
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Jan 17, 2020 01:58
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I once shoved a box of frozen white castle burgers into my jacket for the ride home. it didn't zip up all the way but they didn't fall out either. the most shameful part of that was, of course, purchasing and eating frozen white castle burgers
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My finest achievements were a three-drawer metal filing cabinet and a 21" trinitron (not, thankfully, at the same time) on the back of an RS125. With enough bungees anything is possible.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:My finest achievements were a three-drawer metal filing cabinet and a 21" trinitron (not, thankfully, at the same time) on the back of an RS125. With enough bungees anything is possible. This is the most incredible thing I've ever read. Please tell me there are pictures of either event.
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Does putting my huge powerlifter friend on the pillon seat count? We were 50lbs over the max weight for the bike, and not surprisingly it felt like poo poo to ride Although seeing people ride around in Vietnam, it turns out weight limits really aren't that important
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Jan 17, 2020 03:59
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Indeed it's like the lower the weight limit, the more irrelevant it is.
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Strife posted:This is the most incredible thing I've ever read. Please tell me there are pictures of either event. Alas it was in the days before mobile phone cameras. Mind you in those days I didn't even think it was that remarkable, because I was always putting weird poo poo on the back of the bike.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Buy a Goldwing, live your best dadlife Y’all don’t even know how right this man is.
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Ethics_Gradient posted:I have a 70L topcase that I keep a wadded up army surplus duffle in (has straps so can be worn as a backpack, or can be strapped down by the ROK straps I leave on the rear crashbars). Duffle has saved me a few times out shopping when my eyes were bigger than my topcase. I'm 60L in the back and 40L each side, owns for touring or just buying a buttload of TP at once. Slavvy posted:It makes your bike look like boiled arse though? I wanna ride it not do a sexy photoshoot with it
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The one thing I hate are side bags. They just get in the way of everything and make it more of a pain than it should be to squeeze past things. They're ugly and don't tend to hold anything useful either. A decently proportioned removable Givi top box is a decent compromise to practicality, but I wouldn't put one on a bike I bought for the sole purpose of riding slowly past shop windows to check out my reflection. In researching this post I found the following relevant horror: 
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The busa is actually a fantastic touring bike, but yeah, it’s aesthetics don’t lend themselves to luggage If it was me, I’d get a B-King and put a top box on it
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I would like to retract my previous statement about my best and biggest bike carry being tires. My biggest carry was a top box chock full of tools, a camera bag and a gas can on the rear rack of my RV-90. I then drove that Death Stranding-esque load of stuff from Milwaukee to Chicago with two 50cc Yamaha Jogs along for the ride. The top box was heavy as poo poo because it had some spares for the RV in it (although none of the spares I’d wind up needing) and a ton of tools and supplies to work on both the RV and the Jogs. I’d estimate it was at least 30+ lbs. Then on top of that there was the camera bag with the camera body, a couple lenses, a tripod and some strobes. Another 20lbs. Brought because, as you can see, cell phone cameras weren’t great at the time. I also had the gas can on the RV but it was eventually moved to one of the Jogs because it flopped around way too much and slowly dripped gas because of it. So that was another however much a gallon of gas weighs. All on a rack that Suzuki says should not be used for more than 15lbs    
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this was my favorite carry on my way back through WA coming from banff. had to make the biggest fire possible on the last night  top boxes look so odd without side panniers
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I like the idea of saddlebags for doing a weekend cottage trip without a backpack. Kawasaki doesn't seem to sell them on their site for my bike though, I'd probably have to go through a dealer to get them ordered. And right now I just want to focus on being ON the bike, not doing stuff TO the bike 
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Arson Daily posted:How big are those? 42L for the top and left panniers and I believe 37L for the right case? could be a little smaller since it has a bit removed for the exhaust e: the revised ones (that fit the keyless fob) have less capacity (36L & 30L iirc), but are the same overall size. I prefer these though since they're cheaper, bigger, and look better compared to the newer ones. gotta use your spare key to lock / remove them from the bike though
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Finger Prince posted:The one thing I hate are side bags. They just get in the way of everything and make it more of a pain than it should be to squeeze past things. They're ugly and don't tend to hold anything useful either. A decently proportioned removable Givi top box is a decent compromise to practicality, but I wouldn't put one on a bike I bought for the sole purpose of riding slowly past shop windows to check out my reflection. Those are the (very appropriately named, in this case) Corbin Beetle Bags. I didn't think a Busa could get any uglier, but here we are. Agree that if you have to choose between top and side cases, get the top case, since it doesn't make the bike 4 feet wide and generally offers far more storage. Plus you can't put a cooked pizza or plate of hot food in a side case.
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Finger Prince posted:In researching this post I found the following relevant horror:  Had to. Jim Silly-Balls posted:All on a rack that Suzuki says should not be used for more than 15lbs You can only get away with ignoring weight limits for so long, the rack on my old XR eventually had a weld break. To be fair, it was only rated for 3kgs and I abused it on a regular basis, wasn't even mad when it happened. Martytoof posted:I like the idea of saddlebags for doing a weekend cottage trip without a backpack. There are plenty of third party options out there. I've got a set of throw-over Ortlieb saddlebags I've been using for like 8 years that are great. (Unfortunately they restructured a few years ago and dropped their motorcycle line, but there are plenty of other manufacturers out there).  Here is the KLR loaded down for a recent camping trip. I bought a cheap PVC roll-top drybag from Thirdgear (Aussie company that sells a bunch of Chinese stuff) which seems surprisingly well made, though I've not tested the waterproofness yet. This was definitely overkill, but it does let me be a bit precious and carry both a yoga mat and Thermarest, which I find helps a lot with comfort (and peace of mind of the mat getting a puncture). I also tossed in a full-sized pillow for good measure. I pretty much look for any excuse to pack a duffle and sling it across the passenger seat - is really nice to have something to rest my lower back against on longer rides.
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