I've see the Giant Loop bag in person, and I have to agree. Looks like a great design. I may replace my Ortlieb Rack Pack with the Giant Loop bag next summer.
] Add me to the bandwagon. They have a combo deal with the coyote and the fandango tank bag. I like the coyote a lot, I have a couple quibbles about its fit on the husky, It does not play nice with my PMB rack, and I'm miffed that they cheaped out on heat shield on the right side. It's still a 9 out of ten. But the fandango is a home run. The bag fits the husky really well, it's got a neat mounting base/zipper and you can unzip it and get to the fuel filler in about 2 seconds. The "other" husky likes it too:
I just returned from an overnight camping trip. The rack worked out great with my bags, and I can now report that the Ortlieb bag really is 100% waterproof and the rain cover for the Motofizz bag is effective too! I'm loving the Husky more every day. My Honda hasn't moved since I got the 610. Here's a couple of pics from the trip.
Very nice, jckid A set of saddlebags would help to get some of the weight lower and off the tail section. I use a set of doggy panniers mounted on my seat, with the straps that would normally attach around the dog belly attached to my passenger footpeg mounts. I use the bags for my 610-specific tool roll, tiny jumper cables (ever tried to bump-start your 610 in the flat sandy desert?) BBQ grill, clothes, plates, sporks, toiletries, headlight, Aquis microfiber towel (tiny and super-absorbent) binoculars, glasses and some food with the fruit on the top wrapped in that squishy shelf liner that RV'ers use to keep stuff from sliding around. It doesn't sound like much but it weighs quite a bit and it's nice to keep it all down low. I like the fact that all that weight is resting on the back of the seat where a passenger would be and not on the rack. On the back I've got 2 sleeping pads and clothes in the red dry bag, tent w/poles and a folding saw in the orange dry bag and the 2 sleeping bags in Granite Gear compression sacks inside the yellow dry bags attached to the pannier protectors on the sides of my rack. Worked great, except for a faliure of the funky stock bolts holding the protectors on. That problem has been addressed and no more failures BTW, I like my bike more and more each and every time I ride it, too WoodsChick
Do you really take your dog on your bike? I have been thinking of doing that but was pretty unsure of how and how to make it safe for him.
Yes I really do. I started slow, setting her on it at a stop. Then I started it and that didn't faze her at all, so I went on a trip around the marina parking lot. We did that for about a week. Then I got a body harness and I got a 1' length of rope and attached it to the tank bag so she couldn't jump out. Did that for about a week, but then I decided the tether was more dangerous if I dropped the bike on top of her. That was all on the f650 with a pretty big tank bag. Now she's just so used to it she'll actually straddle the husky with no bag at all. (but she's a lot more comfortable with a bag.) I could take her on the freeway on the Dakar and she'd curl up and sleep in the tank bag, the husky is too small so I'm really limited to local trips, and I don't take her off road so we've never crash tested this setup yet. This was from our first day around the parking lot, she looks traumatized doesn't she?! Lilly's 20# and I think thats about as big a dog as I'd wanna do it with, though I have seen a huge 100# golden retriever on a carpeted harley tank before so
Nice setup you have there. I like the idea of the doggy panniers. That would give me a little extra storage space without making the bike more top heavy. I was leaning towards a giant loop bag, until I checked the price! Thanks for the tip on the mini-jumper cables too. My dad made some homeade ones using 12-guage wire and clips from Radio Shack. Is that what you did, or did you find some motorcycle specific cables somewhere?
I was at MotoXotica one day picking up some stuff and saw this cute little round pouch with 8' cables in it. Perfect size, only $12.95 and they fit in my bags just right. The pouch is about 6" across and about 2" deep. I happened to see them shortly after returning from a trip to Nevada. I had turned my grip heaters on by accident and my battery was dead in the morning. We couldn't get that thing bump-started for love nor money. We even towed it up to the top of the only hill within eyesight and still no go. I ended up jumping it with giant car cables. The little ones work way better. WoodsChick
Well I decided to get me one of those racks. wasn't to sure if I was going to like it but dam if this thing didn't turn out to be a pretty cool rack. it fits well and makes it real easy to carry stuff. Now the wife wants one for her KLX!! cool find... Ditto on the jumper cables, twice on group rides we have had batterys go dead and them fuel injected bikes don't like to push start. I always carry a set now
Looks great Wesle616. They are nice racks. If I didn't already have a rack on my Honda, I'd put a Borrego rack on it too.
Has anyone tried using the PRO MOTO BILLIT panniers, just added cussets to my 06 te610 sub frame and now looking for pannier rack options. I would like something to support the wolfman dry bags.
I liked my Turbo City rack a lot...Before it broke off the bike. There's a design flaw in the rear framing shape to the mount. It needs to go straight from the mount to the rear of the rack without any corners to cause a cantilever on itself. Day two of a six day ride Next day before noon, even after "splinting" the tubing with bolts and JB Weld. It's not just broken off, there are parts missing LOL
What were you packing? Appearently it wasnt designed to haul the portable hot tub for after a days ride.
No need. I've already welded up new frame struts where they should have been to begin with. I sent pics to TCI, to seemingly deaf ears.
