Igave it a good try too, through 1500kms of all weather riding and it just didn’t do anything for me except impede my vision of the dash and make my bike look ugly. I reckon it looks naff. Didn’t even make it to the next day when I got home, tubbed it and took it off. …
This is a laughable attempt at luggage for the amount of kaching spent and labour cost to get the rack installed. Laughable. But apart from a backpack it’s all I’ve got. History tells me that I get away for a four day ride, once a year. Experience tells me that doing 2000kms with a heavy backpack …
Immediately I’m thinking, shit it’s short, and fairly tall too, which for me is a great thing, at just a smidge under 6’2″ I’m sitting atop the little pocket rocket flat-footed, bollocks bashed up against the tank and looking out at fresh air. It feels perfectly normal to me. Let’s go! Actually firstly, few things …
ADR is only three weeks away but I feel like my throat has been cut knowing I have to go back to work on Monday and there are no more ‘free days’ of getting up whenever, doing anything, riding a lot and not being chained to the repression of desk life in an office. But …
For a time I hated my hyper, its impracticality, its tiny fuel tank, lack of storage, protection from the elements the list goes on. At one stage I was even considering selling it. I’m glad I didn’t because the latest round of mods have had me smiling ear to ear over and over again. …