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| I ride a CBR 600F and am looking to buy some form of luggage. I don't want anything to lrage but just big enough to fit a couple of days worth of gear in. Has anyone ridden with a tank bag on? Out of interest would anyone reccomend any form of soft luggage for a sports bike be it tail pack or tank bag and if so which one.
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Depends how light you travel! You can get tank bags of various sizes, which may well be enough for a couple of days. I don't know if your CBR has a metal tank ot not - but if it has, the magnetic ones are very good. As long as it isn't too tall to obscure the clocks, you will be fine. I have a Buffalo magnetic bag, which was excellent on the Bandit, but I haven't tried it yet on the Ducati. The Duc has a plastic tank, and I will need to attach it with straps, which is much less convenient.
If a tank bag isn't enough, you can add a tail pack (never used one) or throwover panniers, of which Oxford Sport look to be good.
I use a rucksack day-to-day, and it's pretty comfy, so I wouldn't mind doing a long journey with it, but it isn't recommended as it puts the weight on your back (bad for you) and high up (bad for the handling).
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| It also depends on where your exhausts are, as a lot of soft luggage doesn't work well with high-level/underseat pipes! I'm not a huge fan of tank bags myself; had a couple, but the only one I really got on with was too low to hold any useful quantity of kit. I do have a venerable pair of Oxford throwovers, which are capacious and good as long as you remember to put an anchoring strap under the tailpiece or saddle strap. (Didn't always bother, until they blew off the back when empty. That said, they got run over a couple of times before I could retrieve them and still survived perfectly intact. So they are tough.). Mostly, though, I rely on a sports rack and bungees to strap anything I want to carry to the pillion seat and/or rack - usually it's a rucksack as that's the best thing to carry around once you get where you're going! And, of course, if it's a rucksack, you can just wear it if that's more convenient. I did consider getting the Venturer tail pack system once, but decided it really wasn't an improvement over the bungee/rucksack approach. And I've still got a huge Givi top-box in my garage if anyone wants to buy something that'll make their bike handle like a shopping trolley...
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| Tail Packs are bloody good if you want to travel light. I had a TLR1000 once with upswept yoshi's so no room for panniers, lashed an Oxford tailpack on the rear seat and bombed off to Mugello , ended up riding 3,ooo miles in about six full days,, (wrote some of it up on the blog) perfect, You can get too emeshed in what you need when touring, but in reality you don't need much at all. I hear The Ventura stuff is very good that Endomoniada reccomends, Tank bags are Ok but if you have a magnetic one it will eventually scratch the paint no matter how careful you are, The Bagster ones are a tailored and colour matched fit awith a harnesss, you can choose what size bag yiou want and when you've finished with it, the harness remains in place colour matched etc and protecting your tank. Rucksacks are OK as long as they are tight like the Kriega models, but remeber you are then caryying the weigght not the bike, and if you are going to do 500 miles in a day for instance it'll make your shoulders ache with all the buffeting
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