Stuff about water I didn’t know

[spyderCodes]

Water is a big subject.
Specifically this about ryding in the rain with fabric/plastic motorcycle luggage.

I’ve ridden motorcycles for a long time but it wasn’t until we got our RT that we started taking trips with them.

Before that they were just a bit of fun for a few hour drive or a handy way to go for small purchases.

The cavernous RT offered a lot of dry warehouse space and we both had an RT so packing was never ever a consideration.

Now my new F3 is a different story.
Enough space on board for my toothbrush and a half tube of Colgate Tooth Gel, a business card and maybe 4 inch Crescent wrench.

So, while at Spyderfest I purchased a large IronRider, uh I guess you’d call it a box, and a smaller luggage thing that latched on to it.
Nicely made, waterproof zippers and enough auxilary straps to lash the Hindenberg to a mooring station.
Plus the both came with a sewn plastic bag cover with slots so the various hooks and straps that hold them in place can be accessed.
Later I shopped Amazon for some similar saddlebags.

I got everything all packed up, lashed down ready to roll.
“Aren’t you going to use the covers?” my wife Glo asked.
“Naw, these things are plastic and rubberized stuff. Water can’t get through” I said in my most authoritative voice so as to minimize the chance I would be challenged and have to re-lash everything.
“Besides that, they look like tea cozys” I said just to make my point in another way.
“OK, it’s your stuff” she said.

It had worked.

If you have ever been on Skyline Drive in a rain/fog marathon you have an idea what the weather can be.
If you haven’t here’s a short explanation.
Rain so hard at times I thought it was hail, and when that let up fog so dense the car ahead of me sliced off big pieces that fell on both sides of the road.

Here’s what I found out about water on the back of an open road vehicle.
It permeates, makes wet and gathers even in plastic and rubberized boxes without their tea cozys.

Today, after breakfast I’m heading off to find a laundromat with big driers.

 

[Cruzr Joe]

Water is a big subject.
Specifically this about ryding in the rain with fabric/plastic motorcycle luggage.

I’ve ridden motorcycles for a long time but it wasn’t until we got our RT that we started taking trips with them.

Before that they were just a bit of fun for a few hour drive or a handy way to go for small purchases.

The cavernous RT offered a lot of dry warehouse space and we both had an RT so packing was never ever a consideration.

Now my new F3 is a different story.
Enough space on board for my toothbrush and a half tube of Colgate Tooth Gel, a business card and maybe 4 inch Crescent wrench.

So, while at Spyderfest I purchased a large IronRider, uh I guess you’d call it a box, and a smaller luggage thing that latched on to it.
Nicely made, waterproof zippers and enough auxilary straps to lash the Hindenberg to a mooring station.
Plus the both came with a sewn plastic bag cover with slots so the various hooks and straps that hold them in place can be accessed.
Later I shopped Amazon for some similar saddlebags.

I got everything all packed up, lashed down ready to roll.
“Aren’t you going to use the covers?” my wife Glo asked.
“Naw, these things are plastic and rubberized stuff. Water can’t get through” I said in my most authoritative voice so as to minimize the chance I would be challenged and have to re-lash everything.
“Besides that, they look like tea cozys” I said just to make my point in another way.
“OK, it’s your stuff” she said.

It had worked.

If you have ever been on Skyline Drive in a rain/fog marathon you have an idea what the weather can be.
If you haven’t here’s a short explanation.
Rain so hard at times I thought it was hail, and when that let up fog so sense the car ahead of me sliced off big pieces that fell on both sides of the road.

Here’s what I found out about water on the back of an open road vehicle.
It permeates, makes wet and gathers even in plastic and rubberized boxes without their tea cozys.

Today, after breakfast I’m heading off to find a laundromat with big driers.

On the Iron Rider luggage i put the straps away and used eight 11" black zip ties and cut off the ends, no straps to flap around and look messy (it is attached to a chrome rack on the rear of a 2015 RTL), about every six weeks or so i remove it to do a thorough cleaning under the rack and replace the zip ties, nice clean look.

Cruzr Joe

 

[Chupaca]

Water Hydraulics....

I have worked with water a lot. In many different fields and have come to this conclusion...Water is part of the weather, and like the weather (still unpredictable today) it will do and go wherever it wants regardless of what we come up with...:roflblack:

 

[ARtraveler]

Right on again, Roger. :2thumbs::2thumbs::firstplace::firstplace:

 

[PrairieSpyder]

Lesson learned! I hope you at least brought the rain covers with you. :dontknow:

 

[SpyRyd]

Roger, you should know by now that Glo knows best!

 

[Crisis]

I only use Kriega Bags. Check them out. Not cheap but never a issue.

 

[JerryB]

Hi spyderCodes,

Re: Water is a big subject.

Here you go: http://www.flixxy.com/water-drop.htm

Jerry Baumchen

 

[Bob Denman]

Roger, you should know by now that Glo knows best!

:agree: But then: we always learn this lesson a bit too many times, and a bit too late! :banghead:

 

[Gray Ghost]

Dihydrogen Monoxide is pernicious and deadly stuff, universal solvent and everyone who drinks it dies.

 

[SPECTACUALR SPIDERMAN]

thanks for the info, now i am sure that water is wet i just hope i can remember that.

 

[taxmyzer]

Better get some

:joke::joke::joke:

 

[exwinger]

Never wet

I used the never wet on my cover.....Never Again .Did it work ? Sort of but it also turned the cover chalky and made it stiff and a PIA to fold back up .Wherever the cover touched a hard surface the water penetrated the fabric.

 

[PrairieSpyder]

I use Never Wet for shoes and leather on my boots and it worked fine.