Recommended luggage or bag for passenger seat position

[cptjam]

Bag

Ortlieb dry bag. Any size you want. Dry stuff is good. No matter the length of the trip, you only need 5 days of clothes. Laundromats are everywhere!

 

[2Paw]

T-bags are great! If you have a gas door, you could tie it down to the passenger hand grips.

Otherwise, lift up the seat and put the tie-downs under the seat and secure it on the opposite side of the T-bag. That way you can lift up the seat to get gas.

When fueling up, if the bag is heavy, I put my foot on the rider's peg and wedge my knee under the seat. Keeps the seat up and easy peasy.

If you turn your handlebars all the way to the right with the seat up it will then rest on the bars while fueling.

 

[Vossr]

Tombstone Bag

I've had a Kuryakyn Tombstone bag for years, 2 wheels and now 3 wheels. It has internal support so it can act as a backrest.

http://www.kuryakyn.com/products/702/tombstone-bag

 

[KX5062]

Bilt Explorer Dry Bag, size L from Cycle Gear.

http://www.cyclegear.com/BILT-Explorer-Dry-Bag

 

[MarkLawson]

Go to the canoe section of your local sporting goods store and you'll find dry bags designed to keep stiff dry even when submerged in water.

 

[Bfromla]

Emgo buffalo bag a bud gave me great sissy bar bag on two wheel now on 3 locked down with helmet lock holds my gear & machine washable every few months lol.


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[Scoot2Mtns]

Use straps not bungees

I recommend that you use straps, not bungees to tie your bag to the spyder. Bungees have an unfortunate tendency to unhook, lose their strength, stretch on a bounce, etc. Then your stuff or the loose end of the bungee ends up somewhere you really don't want it! (Hmmm, how do I know this?) I can recommend some straps from Helen2Wheels. I haven't used them on my new Spyder yet but have used them for motorcycle trips.

http://www.racerpartswholesale.com/product/7914/Helen_Twowheels_Super_Pack_Straps

 

[Dan McNally]

Every trip I've taken, I've paid attention to what I didn't use, and, over time, have pretty much gotten to the point where everything I need fits inside my RT, rather than in a bag on the back seat. I do, however, have to wash some clothes every two or three days.

In the last years of my working life, I was an emergency planner, always thinking about what could go wrong and how to prevent it, and that is a hard mindset to break. As a result, when there is a bag on my back seat, I am always worried about it still being there when I come out of a gas station rest room or a place where I stopped for lunch. I no longer have that worry by packing light.

Four sets of underwear and socks, two or three shirts, two pair of jeans and two pair of shorts if the weather warrants, a quart of oil, tools, raingear, a tire repair kit, an extra pair of shoes, and a small kit bag with toothpaste, toothbrush, etc . . . and a bottle of acetaminophen, camera gear, computer tablet, and associated chargers, and bottles of water, stuffed in where they will fit, and I'm pretty much good to go.

Riding jacket and pants get a steel cable run through the arms and legs and locked to the Spyder, along with my helmet, for lunch breaks.

 

[PaladinLV]

Easy Peasy

Last year be bought a Kuryakyn touring bag that fastens to the passenger seat. Wife uses it on her bike but has to remove the driver back rest for it to fit.

I put it on my bike with the Ultimate tallboy seat and it ALMOST fits fine with my driver back rest installed.

I need to get another passenger seat bag so we each have one for the trip to Spyderfest (We will be on the road for 10 to 12 days, our first extended bike trip).

Any suggestions on other ones that work well for this application? We like the Kuryakyn touring bag other than its a bit too deep front to back to fit well on the Spyder passenger seat. 1" less and it would be perfect.

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