el-cheapo oxford luggage - with pics!

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k1w1boy · #1 Post by **k1w1boy** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 8:19 pm

...I tend to be a bit of a tankbag, backpack and undies guy for trips up to a week, but took the GF on her first decent trip down to Newquay and bought the 'entry-level' oxford throw-overs to carry her make-up and undies in. For £55 they did surprisingly well - lots of fastening options that worked securely on my tail at modestly illegal highway speeds, and 'enough' room. Unfortunately the rain covers didn't like higher speeds and actually tore apart and flew off - though in my own (thankfully) inimitable way I probably put them on wrong (if it is in fact possible to put bag showercaps on wrong). Pics below!

DavShill · #2 Post by **DavShill** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 7:46 am

KIWI - I'm off to the lakes with wife in a cou-ple of weeks. I use Givi soft panniers but never with pilliion before. How did GF find the ride, getting on and off and enough room on footpegs?

k1w1boy · #3 Post by **k1w1boy** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 11:42 am

...oh she and the luggage were fine. My bags cleared the pillion footpegs enough so with me holding the brake she could easily just step up and swing her leg over. I did my best to put the bags as far back as I could - note the bungies around the tail light. It was the wee girls first trip further than the shops with me and she did find the seat and position tough on her bum and legs (hard to explain the 'selective masochism' bikers have on long trips to a newbie/pillion: my bum hurts too, but we can still get another 20miles in before we have to fuel etc).

I grudgingly bought her those lovehandle things to hold onto me with and she loved them (my natural lovehandles were obviously insufficient

I hardly knew she was there!).

FlyingKiwi · #4 Post by **FlyingKiwi** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 11:51 am

I've seen kiwiboys dismount method and it 'aint pretty

sfoley1 · #5 Post by **sfoley1** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 12:38 pm

Kiwiboy

Where did you get those lovehandle things from? (no need for overeating/drinking gags chaps!)

The grabrails are no good for my missus.

Do they result in more headbutts to the back of your helmet though?

Firestarter · #6 Post by **Firestarter** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 1:04 pm

I got a pair from my local bike shop (J&S), but you can get them from most places. Motrax ones, I think.

http://www.mandp.co.uk/productinfo/5152 ... ion-Straps

Haven't used them, as the missus got pregnant shortly after buying them (no link between the two, I assure you!), so hasn't been on the bike since

Dusty · #7 Post by **Dusty** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 2:33 pm

I bought Motrax love handles a couple of years ago for my daughter to use when she first rode pillion ion my Triumph. She thought they were excellent; comfortable to use and confidence inspiring. I like them because I knew she was holding on but I wasn't having the life squeezed out of me as with some new pillions who want to hold the rider. Admittedly, I didn't complain too much about that when I was in my teens and taking the girls out for a spin on my Kawasaki 250!

Syltiz · #8 Post by **Syltiz** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 2:38 pm

There is something about these that I just cant bring myself to wear them. They seem very practical but I just cant...

Aladinsaneuk · #9 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 4:09 pm

some people, cough drider, seem to wear love handles all the time.....

MartDude · #10 Post by **MartDude** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 7:51 pm

For f--ks sake, if you're going to do that sort of thing, get a Futura!

k1w1boy · #11 Post by **k1w1boy** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 11:10 pm

FlyingKiwi wrote:I've seen kiwiboys dismount method and it 'aint pretty

....<insert deity of your choice> gave me short legs ... once you're riding her, it doesn't matter how silly you looked trying to get your leg over

The love-handles were about £12 at Halfords. My girl's no teeny tiny, and a pillion newbie to boot and we had no headbutt problems. They're not cool but she raved about how much happier she was holding them at the small of my back rather than clinging to the sissybar behind her. She felt safer and subsequently was a better 'behaved' pillion - all good.