pizzabox now added_./not for style!!

[vzzzbuxt]

finally after much arguing and wrestling with rusted and seized bolts my givi wingrack and my slightly portly sized 45lt topbox are now sitting pretty on the sv.

all hail practicality! can i get a woop-woop, can i get a woop-WOOP!!!:thumleft:


http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/2730/dsc00027sh1.jpg






-...what can i say..beats a rucksack, and seen as its become my hack getting a rack to suit it was on the cards since buying the bike.

:smt026

[vzzzbuxt]

oh, just noticed pic is a bit dark... its not a wheres wally game!!. the box is def on the back of the bike.

my flash is playing up on me camera phone. ill take a daylight pic tomorrw probably

[northwind]

Topboxes for the win!

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i264/Northwindlowlander/End%20of%20season%20run/IMG_0043.jpg

[scoobinater]

Looks great, Northwind. Did you make that yourself? I'd like to do the same.

[northwind]

The rack? Nah, it's just standard Givi stuff. Plus electric tape stripes :cool:

[vzzzbuxt]

The rack? Nah, it's just standard Givi stuff. Plus electric tape stripes :cool:

so does the eletric tape make it go faster then?


....like lightening maybe??? :mrgreen:

[Dan]

so does the eletric tape make it go faster then?


....like lightening maybe??? :mrgreen:

Are you deliberately playing with words, ie lightening (removing weight) instead of lightning, or did you just spell lightning wrong?

I read your post and thought that's either a bit of brilliant wit, or just a really apt spelling error!

So be honest, which was it?

[plowsie]

Ahhhhhhh my eyes :(

Northy shame on you!

[Grinch]

I want one now...

[vzzzbuxt]

Are you deliberately playing with words, ie lightening (removing weight) instead of lightning, or did you just spell lightning wrong?

I read your post and thought that's either a bit of brilliant wit, or just a really apt spelling error!

So be honest, which was it?

i do my usual trick, type summit... its witty... then stare at it for 5 mins thinking ive mispelled it... i feel a little lexdisic sometimes



pizzaboxes rock. they soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo useful, besides it looks cooler gettin a knee down with a topbox on!8)

[hovis]

I want one now...

i dont:smt037

[r4ce_e3nd]

I welded myself a "topcase-fixment" at the place where the handle bar for the pillion is:

http://i24.tinypic.com/ekew6e.jpg

here without case:

http://i24.tinypic.com/24kwen5.jpg



And yes it looks much better without!

Photo's were taken at my trip to the Voges in France.

Notice my GPS! :cool:


One for fun: kneedown with sidecar

http://i22.tinypic.com/ekojs9.jpg

[jambo]

I welded myself a "topcase-fixment" at the place where the handle bar for the pillion is:

http://i24.tinypic.com/ekew6e.jpg


Ah I see someone's got the 675 drunk and cling filmed it to itself, bet it'll feel silly tomorrow....:rolleyes:


As for top boxes, they're practical, but it's pretty much the worst place to throw 20kg of weight if you want the bike to handle nicely....

[plowsie]

One for fun: kneedown with sidecar

http://i22.tinypic.com/ekojs9.jpg
I would like to point out that knee isnt down :mrgreen::king:

[northwind]

Ahhhhhhh my eyes :(

Northy shame on you!

Yeah, I know, gold wheels, what a fashion faux pax :D

Top boxes are great- practical, secure, waterproof, stable... They do look appalling but the question is, is your bike a tool or a toy?

[vzzzbuxt]

mines definatly a TOOL... i know this because i dont clean it:-s

:thumleft: RESPECT :-D

[northwind]

As for top boxes, they're practical, but it's pretty much the worst place to throw 20kg of weight if you want the bike to handle nicely....

Fact. Though I don't think Givi rate the racks to that weight either, I certainly wouldn't put that much on mine, no chance. THough this weekend I probaby had about 5 kilos of stuff in it, and the bike was better over rough surfaces because my shock's now oversprung for my scrawny frame :smt090

[jambo]

Fact. Though I don't think Givi rate the racks to that weight either, I certainly wouldn't put that much on mine, no chance. THough this weekend I probaby had about 5 kilos of stuff in it, and the bike was better over rough surfaces because my shock's now oversprung for my scrawny frame :smt090
Ok 20KG was probably an exageration. I had a really big Givi top box on my Bandit 600 and had to stop using it as it made the bike handle so badly. The shock was on it's way out which was the actual problem, but I just never got round to fitting the top box again after I got the money together for that new shock.