I have had the Cortech Sport rear for a few months and really like it.
The attachement can be made with the elastic straps and hooks, or more
securely by using the nylon flat straps and cris-crossing them under the rear passenger seat
then locking it in place. Neither approach is perfectly elegant, but it works.

The bag itself is solid, no issues with zippers. It also comes with a rain cover and shoulder
strap. It expands big enough to fit my bike cover in it, which was quite surprising to me.

It works for me, and it does everything I thought it would.

Chris.

 

Happy New Year to all,
Chris

 

I've got one of these that does fine for a weekend road trip:
http://www.chaseharper.com/TailTrunks/TailTrunks.htm
and one of these that's expandable:
http://www.denniskirk.com/jsp/produc...0705&mmyId=
I just use a backpack for commuting back and forth to work.

 

Holy CRAP! That's a lot of, well, crap on the back seat there. Second passenger indeed. lol.

 

I've got to tell you, I've toured quite a bit on my Goldwing and I've spent quite a few hours in the saddle of my 1KRR, but imagining taking a long trip on my 1KRR where I would need this much gear makes my old man bones ache!

Congrats to you for doing it. In my opinion, you learn a lot about yourself and your bike when you go on an extended trip like that.

 

+ 1 on the Joe Rocket Velocity, I believe that now it's become the Recon 23 tailbag from Rapid Transit, these guys are great and stand behind their products 100%
http://rapid-transit.com/rt/0200.htm

 

I've purchased the Cortech Tail Bag & Sport Saddle bags. I like them very much. They are well made, look decent. Not too large. Still let the RR have it's presence felt. There's suprising room inside them. New Enough is the place to buy!!

 

I have the Cortech Sport bags as well. Love them! They fasten really secure and stay in place at high speeds. I don't routinely look to speed but I did take them to 130 briefly and I didn't even know they were there.

 

Looks like the Cortech is pretty popular. Here's a pic of both the tail and saddle bags together on my '06 1kRR. Each work pretty well individually and the saddle/tail combo holds enough for an extendedweekend trip.

+10 on NewEnough.com!! My first tail bag had a manufacturing defect and NewEnough went out of their way to make sure I was taken care of.


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Comet, Thanks for the pics on the Cortech Tail and saddle bags. I ended up going with Cortech and feel better seeing them in full on another bike. They are due in today! Also, Thanks to everyone else for your posts. Glad I joined this forum, lots of great info.

Cheers