What do you carry under your pillion seat / cowl?

[independentphoto]

Stolen unashamedley from the GM section purely on account of the fact that I thought it was an interesting thread.......

A certain person keeps spare clutch and brake levers as well as spare pegs under their seat - handy but bulky and ominous!

I can't quite catalogue mines at the moment, but I find that you can get more under there each time you try! Photos might be interesting too, either in-place or more impressive spread out on the floor for us all to wonder at!

Does the OEM cowl permit more storage space perhaps. all RELEVANT comments welcome.

Garry:cool:

[Blue Flame]

Judging by Sunday some peeps obviously don't have a toolkit.

I have:-

Some tape
A can of stuff to sort a puncture
Side stand puck
Standard Toolkit (plus a couple of allen keys and a couple of fuses)
A bottle of visor cleaner solution
Disc Lock
Some cloths
A working 12V cigarette lighter socket. (Useful for travel hairdryers;))
Occasionaly I add a camera.Oh aye and the OEM cowl definately lets you fit more stuff in.

[Tiger 55]

some peeps obviously don't have a toolkit.
Nope. Got mates and RAC card see? ;)

1. Scottoiler
2. Cargo net
3. Map of Scotland

all live in there permanently, plus rideout specefic extras as required, e.g. for Sunday...

4. Balaclava
5. Neck warmer (in case it got cold later)
6. Sunglasses (in case the sun blazed away at 4 degrees above the horizon)

Don't want my disc lock rattling around next to the Scottoiler so it lives in the toolkit kaboosh. Fits perfect...

[Cam_73]

Scott oiler, OEM Toolkit and disc lock.

Is there a prize for the most "stuff" ?

[kitkat]

dont know have never taken seat off. Might have a tool kit but as I dont know what Im doing with it, no point carrying it. Think there may be a side stand puck maybe

I had puncture repair stuff under seat cowl at AR04 but it exploded under seat filling cowl with white foamy stuff that dripped out all over rear hugger.

[Blue Flame]

Nope. Got mates and RAC card see? ;)

:smt046 :thumbsup:

[Stu]

dont know have never taken seat off. Might have a tool kit but as I dont know what Im doing with it, no point carrying it. Think there may be a side stand puck maybe

.
if you watch LWR you'll see that Charlie & Ewan didn't know what they were doing but at least they had the tools when the friendly locals stopped to help.

Opps soory, thought I was still in the GM :thumbsup:

[husky03]

tool kit
wd40
a piece

[stuartyboy]

Rubber Johnnies

[stuartyboy]

Double post oops - is it just me or is the forum all screwy?

[hovis]

punture repair kit thingy
HONDA toolkit
tax disc

[stuartyboy]

punture repair kit thingy
HONDA toolkit
tax disc

Tax disc:confused:

[hovis]

Tax disc:confused:
yes.


i could not undo all the little nuts and bolts on the holder the bike came with. so i just taped it under the seat.

dunno if its legal, but it stops it getting nicked, but as my bike is garaged, and rarly left alone, the chances of getting the disc nicked is slim.

[kitkat]

no its not legal. tax disc has to be displayed

[Tiger 55]

is it just me?
Almost certainly.

[hovis]

no its not legal. tax disc has to be displayed


are you sure?

ah, well nevermind. i think i will be ok, as im normaly with the bike, and they will know its taxed as its all on computer, i'll just say i did not want to get it knicked.

[Stu]

tool kit
wd40
a piece
Is that the scottish 'piece 'n bried'?



Or is the boy packing heat ? :shock:



(yes I know you're trade)

[ScottishRawker]

i used to have my baffle under my seat!

then got annoyed with it rattling about so it now sits somewhere in a box of stuff.

iv carried dvds in it before,
usualy put my gloves in it when at college and helmet on the helmet bit.

not sure what else i have put in there.

[dirtydog]

dont know have never taken seat off. Might have a tool kit but as I dont know what Im doing with it, no point carrying it. Think there may be a side stand puck maybe

Nowt under there not even a tool kit (had to be taken out to fit the larger battery) if you're lucky you might be able to get a fag paper under there

dunno if its legal


No it's not, the tax disc (and i believe, unless it's changed) has to be on the left hand side towards the front of the bike and i think it's a ?30 fine for failure to display a valid tax disc

[petevtwin650]

Stolen unashamedley from the GM section purely on account of the fact that I thought it was an interesting thread.......

A certain person keeps spare clutch and brake levers as well as spare pegs under their seat - handy but bulky and ominous!




I carry 3 spare levers under the seats. Sv clutch and brake,plus a gixxer one for my Radial m/c.

Spare pegs,levers,toe pegs, bolts for the rear sets. Both sides.

Fuses, tax disc (don't care if it's not legal. I'm a rebel), bulb set.

WD40, block of wood, get you home fixer-peg.

Custom tool kit with sockets and 3/8 breaker bar.

Cable ties.

Do I win? :D:D

[-Ralph-]

Depends on where I'm going and if my exhaust baffle is in, but

Baffle, allen key and appropriate spanner, Disk Lock, Chain and padlock. Toolkit in the normal place if going any distance, but don't leave it in there day to day as Cupar motorcycles told me they regularly get nicked.

[SVTONYB]

Absolutely nowt :cool:

[SVTONYB]

Re the tax disc scenario.

It is held on Police National Computer whether or not the bike is taxed

But

The penalty is for NOT DISPLAYING and wardens will issue ticket for that

All the same my disc is in my wallet :thumbsup:

[Blue Flame]

Re the tax disc scenario.....
The penalty is for NOT DISPLAYING and wardens will issue ticket for that

Yeah and that rips my knitting.:mad:

They could save loadsa money by removing the need to print and send you out a tax disc now it is all computerised.

[Tiger 55]

yes I know you're trade
Husky is a prostitute? :shock:

[mart]

what else would a ni man carry but one of these http://britishsas.8m.com/l2a2-grenade.jpg

[husky03]

Husky is a prostitute? :shock:


Yep -but only for women and if the money is right(anything over a pound and i'm hers for two mins:safe:)

husky

[northwind]

I used to have an epic tool kit under the seat. Just now I only have an allen key set, a screwdriver and jumpleads. And a set of levers and a puncture repair kit taped inside the front fairing.

[stuartyboy]

In addition to the Johnnies (seriously - old mountain bikers trick to keep my tool from rusting)

Bottle of olive oil from the Aviemore rideout!

[taffo]

toolkit, disk lock, tricklecharger and spare sparky. (do you think i've had starting probs recently?)

[Duck-man]

Try not to carry much but usually end up with:
Camera
Wallet
Sunglasses
Phone
Keys
Viser cleaner stuff
Map of the area of were i am about to get lost in

I am always paranoid that something is gonna slip through the gaps around the seat into the wheel/chain area :O

[-Ralph-]

I am always paranoid that something is gonna slip through the gaps around the seat into the wheel/chain area :O

Your paranoia is not unfounded, more than once I've had the rider seat off to get stuff back that was rattling around under there. Put the big things in first and small things at the back.