What size chain can you fit under the pillion?

[philipMac]

So, if you take everything (ie the little toolkit) out of the underseat pillion storage on the SV650 ('99), can you get the six foot Krypto chain into that space? Or nowhere close? I notice that there are sort of two little pods on either side of the storage space there, that the two ends of the chain can be sort of lowered into, and when that fills up can you coil the remainder of the chain below the seat?
I managed to fit 6 foot of foam pipe insulator fairly handily in there... but chain is another story...
Thanks,
Philip.
(Oh yeah, so this is FP for me here, but I have lurked about a while, and am well impressed with the caliber of advice, so... I thought I would say thanks, and ehh, nice one I suppose. Seriously, this is a quality resource. )

[OF.uk]

Haven't got a clue :? Best bet is to try and find someone who's got one and try it out for yourself.
Welcome btw :D

[diamond]

I've carried a 4ft chain and lock under the seat with a disk lock and the tool kit still in place so it might fit.

HTH :D

[TSM]

1.5m Oxford monster lock and chain

[Mogs]

Keep your chain in a tough plastic bag. I've heard horror stories of them working their way out of the smallest gap, then down onto wheel and sprockets. Not pleasant :(

I dare not keep anything heavy under my seat, as the Alarm and Chain Oiler are there.

[TSM]

the space is quite diffrent for the curvey and pointy, also some people seem to have the alarm mounted in there instead of bolted to the side of the subframe to save space. I also have the scottoiler mounted behind the side plastic next to the gear lever.

[Cloggsy]

My Scottoiler sits under my seat hump, so once I've got my tool kit & my baffle, spanner & screwdriver in there (to re-fit the baffle, just in case I get stopped by the law ;)) then thats it :roll:

[hall13uk]

i have tiny first aid, disk lock, glow sticks, & still have room for my master 4s (all weather gloves from hg)

[Jdubya]

I dare not keep anything heavy under my seat, as the Alarm and Chain Oiler are there.

Same!

But the space down there on the K4 is so limited anyway :!:

[Jdubya]

In reply to your post...it depends on how much discomfort your pillion can actually deal with... :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Stormspiel]

Same bike, Same chain :lol: .
Mine fits under snuggly without taking the toolkit out. If you curl it up into a ring then put padlock kinda through it and into middle of ring it squeezes in easily. I can even stash my Cd player ( albeit it's tiny) under there for pilion to listen to. You'd be surprised how much junk actually goes in it. :D

[TSM]

as for disk lock, one of the oxford ones come with a bracket that it attached to, which on my bike is bolted on the right pilion peg with the exhaust hanger bolt on the inside.

[Oxprod]

Oxford Boss and Patriot (thatcham approved) disk locks come with brackets that can be attached to exhaust bolts etc. 1.5m Monster fits under the seat of a pointy, but its a tight fit.

[philipMac]

Nice one Stormspeil. Mine is blue, with 6K (!) miles on it. And its a little animal. Allright then. I got the 4'3" noose chain (the one that threads through itself), so as Stormspeil said, hopefully I should be grand. Also, cheers Mogs for the tip, chain + movey bits + 90mph probably isnt too pleasant. A couple of poeple were talking about the weight. It would be the vibes/noise that I would think would be more annoying on a spin into work, no? The bag might damp that too though. I would just dump it on the weekend.
Also I am a little bit suprised about people talking about alarms. I noticed some lads at it, but they were poncing about on blinging CBR1000s and things though :)
Im over in the US now, working in NYU, and I reckoned that an alarm would be a bit OTT, I would just leave it in front of security with a decent lock and hope for the best. Bugger. Are a lot of SVs robbed? They are pretty light, I just thought that those lads would prefer the more showey bikes (there are plenty about Manhattan).
Thanks again... (I feel a bit guilty. Im probably SFA help on bikes, but if you have any Linux or Perl questions Im your man... ha ha. Take it easy)