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You could make tank bags, some of them are hard to find these days. Looks well made to me, my own effort on a Kawasaki KC100 was dangerously slippery! You can relax about the bikes, hopefully you have many years of bigger bikes ahead of you. It's amazing how the opportunities open up after you've been riding for a few years. The ratty bike years are great fun though.
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I saw a lot of ‘tank’ bags on ebay, they all looked a bit naff though.
Bit of a shit ride to the mechanics this afternoon for the carb/valve service. Left the house and the left indicator seemed erratic. Bike felt okay as could be, though.
Hadn’t charged the battery (which was clearly on its way out) and with lights on at dusk the bastard bike stalled on me on a bumper-to-bumper rush hour traffic dual carriageway. Refused to start again.
Fortunately traffic was crawling. Couldn’t get it to start so pushed it the 100m to the McDonalds car park.
Had chavs laughing and videoing me out their car window, so that ticks off ultimate embarrassing stall.
No joy waiting in case engine was flooded, barely got a turn over out the starter. JUST managed to catch the 24hr Bike Recovery guy, who came and picked me up and dropped me to the mechanics.
Asked them to add a new battery to the list of clearly overdue maintenance.
Hopefully the mechanics will sort it all out!
But back to tank bags, any examples of what people actually desire?
pdlouche
Thanks for the insight! I suppose this is why motorcyclists can be serial bike-swappers whilst looking for that perfect setup that doesn’t exist.
In other news, a bit wobbly as I was working without a real pattern and on the excuse if it works I’ll make a second better one: