MustGoFaster
New Member
I got one for y'all. About 2 months after I got my bike, the sucker ate my Cortech saddlebags! I'm pretty sure I didn't secure them properly, (or the velcro popped off) but I'm going about 80 down the highway when all of a sudden my RPM's and MPH just start declining. Sharply. I pull off to the side, dismount, and check the front. Nothing. Then I check the rear. Ouch. One of them were wedged between the tire and the frame. After dislodging it, I call work to let them know I'm running a *little* late.
At this point, I'm at a loss. I had a bunch of stuff in those bags, including a cover, lunch, meds (which are now scattered all over the highway) etc. Thankfully, only a few things that were easily replacable were destroyed, myself and the bike NOT included, as I realize it could have ended far worse than it did. The problem then was that I had no way of transporting the surviving what-not.
My savior rolled up a few moments later, a biker mom and her son in a car. She asked what happened and I told her. Her son then offered his backpack to me so I could get my stuff to work. I was touched and blown away all at the same time. I offered her money, or to get her address so I could return it, but she was having none of it. She just said that if she had something like that happen while she was out on her ZX1, she'd want someone to stop for her.
Now the sucky part is the bike was a pretty messy eater about it. I've *still* got saddlebag on the very edges of the sides of the tire, even after picking and scrubbing at it. It's a major time consuming process, one I'm doing in stages. A good chunk of it's also melted to the exhaust, which is pretty not awesome. I've tried heating it up and scrubbing, and again, it's coming off slowly but surely, but it's a pain in the arse getting at it. Just another reason to have either Marthy mod it, or just got the TB exhaust lol. Now if only the fiance would clear me on that...
The moral of the story? Help yer fellow biker on the side of the road. And don't use saddle bags that don't permenantly fix to yer ride, LoL.
At this point, I'm at a loss. I had a bunch of stuff in those bags, including a cover, lunch, meds (which are now scattered all over the highway) etc. Thankfully, only a few things that were easily replacable were destroyed, myself and the bike NOT included, as I realize it could have ended far worse than it did. The problem then was that I had no way of transporting the surviving what-not.
My savior rolled up a few moments later, a biker mom and her son in a car. She asked what happened and I told her. Her son then offered his backpack to me so I could get my stuff to work. I was touched and blown away all at the same time. I offered her money, or to get her address so I could return it, but she was having none of it. She just said that if she had something like that happen while she was out on her ZX1, she'd want someone to stop for her.
Now the sucky part is the bike was a pretty messy eater about it. I've *still* got saddlebag on the very edges of the sides of the tire, even after picking and scrubbing at it. It's a major time consuming process, one I'm doing in stages. A good chunk of it's also melted to the exhaust, which is pretty not awesome. I've tried heating it up and scrubbing, and again, it's coming off slowly but surely, but it's a pain in the arse getting at it. Just another reason to have either Marthy mod it, or just got the TB exhaust lol. Now if only the fiance would clear me on that...
The moral of the story? Help yer fellow biker on the side of the road. And don't use saddle bags that don't permenantly fix to yer ride, LoL.
