I'm off to the Lakes tomorrow morning. So, last night I started looking out everything I need to take with me.
It looks like rain over the weekend so I've decided to take the roomier of my two tents again. The smaller one would have fitted in the side pannier but the larger will need to fasten on outside.
I was considering not putting on the sissy bar and rack. Everything will fit on to the mudguard rack if I put the tent and my seat into the roll-top bag I've got. Then my bag with waterproofs can bungee on to the top of that. The only concern I have with this is that the whole weight of the tent and seat are fixed to the rack. It's only fastened to the mud-guard with two fasteners which sit in-line. There is a little side to side play in the rack. This is not an issue for fastening fairly light items to the rack but I'm not 100% convinced that it's strong enough.
I'll have another look today to see if I can work out some other fastening points. If I can't, I'll think about fitting the sissy bar as I did last time out. Everything will still load up as it is just now it will just be bungeed on to stronger points.
Safety should come before appearances.
It looks like rain over the weekend so I've decided to take the roomier of my two tents again. The smaller one would have fitted in the side pannier but the larger will need to fasten on outside.
I was considering not putting on the sissy bar and rack. Everything will fit on to the mudguard rack if I put the tent and my seat into the roll-top bag I've got. Then my bag with waterproofs can bungee on to the top of that. The only concern I have with this is that the whole weight of the tent and seat are fixed to the rack. It's only fastened to the mud-guard with two fasteners which sit in-line. There is a little side to side play in the rack. This is not an issue for fastening fairly light items to the rack but I'm not 100% convinced that it's strong enough.
I'll have another look today to see if I can work out some other fastening points. If I can't, I'll think about fitting the sissy bar as I did last time out. Everything will still load up as it is just now it will just be bungeed on to stronger points.
Safety should come before appearances.
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