How to strap your backpack to your fzr

[olie05]

Just went on a short weekend road trip. Put in over 400 miles. Used bungee cords to keep everything from falling off. Worked great even in a headwind on the highway.



err... sorry for the crappy cell phone pic. (better than nothing right??)

[blensen]

I did something similar, but i put mine over the tank. Worked great!

[rotortech]

Your picture is fine. I have been thinking about this lately. I located a used tank bag on Craigslist that I might get. The price is right but a strap-on back pack is even better.

Hmmm . . . .

[Kyle844]

i'll be doing near 2000mi road trip in 6 weeks n my bike, tank bag and backpack are all i got so far, might have to figure out another bag to go on back

[reelrazor]

This is how I did mine. This and a good tankbag was enough for a weeklong trip to Kentucky...


It's just a cheap "Jeep" bag from WalMart. Added one piece of webbing from strap to strap near the waist and went under the passenger seat with it:


No bungees necessary... just used the strap clips hooked to the footguard on the passenger pegs aand tightened the normal backpack straps. It rode nice back there and also allowed me to rise up and sit my butt down on the backpack to stretch my legs underway.

[olie05]

I have a little more time to elaborate on the setup now, so I will:

In the past I have used ratchet straps down to the luggage loops by the passenger pegs. This worked but whatever I would strap down would tend to slide towards me, since that tie down point is forward of the seat. This would result in me ratcheting the strap down unnecessarily tight.

I'm pretty happy with the bungee cord solution because it won't scratch up the paint if you use the luggage nubs on the subframe. All you do is loop the bungee part of the cord (not the plastic end) around the nub and hook the plastic ends to whatever you're tying down. Works quite elegantly. In fact, once I figured out the zig zag setup (green bungee in the pic) the backpack did not move.

As a note, the helmet lock doubles as the left rear luggage nub. Just loop the bungee cord around the lock and tie down whatever you're tying down. This is something I had to figure out, since no one is talking about it on the forums and its not in the owners manual. (I wonder why?)

[kilika2]

Someone on here just did a 2100 mile trip and had a giant set up on the tank and the seat. I thought it was awesome. I'll have to go find the thread. Don't remember the guys name but I remember his sig had his black 600 and a bicycle in the background.

Chris.

[Kyle844]

People should post how they rig up bags for travel!

[yamaha_george]

People should post how they rig up bags for travel!

hi,
distances (800 miles) I much prefer to use my old army 100ltr (centurion) bergen from Berghause on my person.

I have never found a tank bag or back pack / saddle bag that did not scratch the heck out of the paint work even if i put linen or toweling between the bag & the paint before I bungeed it down.

Bungee hooks should have a piece of soft plastic /rubber fuel line slid over the metal to stop the metal chaffing the paint off at fixing points. and the one time I did bungee to bungee over the rear seat on a sports bike the rear tyre eat the bungee after 150 miles NOT nice.

[Banned]

Here is what i did. I used small cargo net and waterproof bag. Bag has rubbery outer surface so it stayed in place pretty good. With that kind of net you can actually strap pretty much everything on back seat. Tank back is using only magnets.

Bag (mine was 30 liter):


Net:


Result:

[Kevadlilleke]

Someone on here just did a 2100 mile trip and had a giant set up on the tank and the seat. I thought it was awesome. I'll have to go find the thread. Don't remember the guys name but I remember his sig had his black 600 and a bicycle in the background.

Chris.

That one: custom saddlebag setup by WSM?

[WSM]

yeah, that's me. and those bmw hardcases did me 18,000+ miles that summer.
and have turned by fzr into a grocery getter!

[just updated the link on the original post]
http://www.fzronline.com/forum/viewtopi ... =21&t=8152