What the heck?
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What the heck?
So, I'm riding to the office this morning and here comes another Harley.......
I'm concentrating on getting "the wave" just right, and after I did.....I noticed something hanging off of the bike.....
His saddle bag was open! I thought to myself, how can ya do that? He musta been stopped, grabbed something out of it and took off....
Surely he didn't throw his leg over an open bag....Heck, I have a hard time getting my leg over with them CLOSED....
It was a Street Glide BTW.....
I'm concentrating on getting "the wave" just right, and after I did.....I noticed something hanging off of the bike.....
His saddle bag was open! I thought to myself, how can ya do that? He musta been stopped, grabbed something out of it and took off....
Surely he didn't throw his leg over an open bag....Heck, I have a hard time getting my leg over with them CLOSED....
It was a Street Glide BTW.....
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could have not been closed all the way. Get up to speed and it opens up when the air grabs it after hitting a bump or something. It happened to me once when the GF went in there to get something out of her purse and didn't shut it correctly. Got a new girl friend and haven't had the problem since.
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Since the day I had a problem with a saddle bag fastner, I developed a habit in checking the bags before I ride. Sometimes while waiting at a light I will reach back and check also. I guess that's the only good thing that came out of that fastner problem.
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I was cruising down I-45 heading home the other day about 75 MPH in the right lane of three lanes. In my rear view mirror, I noticed a motorcycle coming up at a pretty good clip. He had to be doing 80-85 MPH. He was in the far left "passing lane". As he passed, I took a glance (as I always do when it's another bike) and saw his left saddle bag lid flopped open. It was a cop on a cop bike. Of course, I had to let him know, so I got over in the middle lane trying to catch up with him. Luckily, traffic was pretty light at the time, so it wasn't long before I caught up with him, but I noticed I was doing about 95 MPH. I thought, oh $hit, but by then it was too late. As I caught up and passed him by about 10 feet, he glanced over at me. I thought for sure he was going to hit the lights. But, I was pointing down at my bag, then I pointed over at him and he got the message and slowed down to latch his bag lid. I, of course, slowed back down to 75 MPH and a few seconds later he caught up with me and gave me a thumb's up as he was passing me. Bikers gotta look out for each other, right?
