Securing detachable tour pak
Road Master
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From: In the Pacific Northwest, a few hours east of Seattle.
If you're out on the road on a trip, and you don't want the PITA of taking it into the hotel room with you, one of the fastest and easiest things you can try is to cover the bike. If people still want it badly enough it will be gone, but the same thing can be said for the bike itself. Any way you could lock it into place could be defeated by a sufficiently committed thief.
(Heh...yet another option..., select a cheap motel, ground floor, and roll the bike right into the room with you. Reduces the odds considerably that someone is going to mess with your bike overnight!)
Best,
Doc
(Heh...yet another option..., select a cheap motel, ground floor, and roll the bike right into the room with you. Reduces the odds considerably that someone is going to mess with your bike overnight!)
Best,
Doc
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Detachable Rack
What I did is punched out the spline stud that holds the latch assembly and put a 1/2 spacer (fits perfectly), found at True Value Hardware store. The I drilled a 1/8" hole through the spacer and in to the docking hardware that is mounted on the bike. Put a cap head bolt in and presto it is bolted down and no more vunerable to any other part on the bike.
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Joined: Apr 2008
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From: Indiana
I drilled a small hole in the mounting bracket slightly above and to the side of the pivot where the cam locks is, ran a hex bolt with a nylon nut on the other side, this prevents the cam lock to rotate enough to remove the TP.
Also use zip-ties on the exposed cam rod where you push in to turn the cam. This way the release pin cannot be pushed in without cutting the zip-ties.
Also use zip-ties on the exposed cam rod where you push in to turn the cam. This way the release pin cannot be pushed in without cutting the zip-ties.
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Tourer
Joined: Nov 2007
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From: Minnesota
I used one of the Smith & Wesson cable locks I had laying around (its about 7 or 8 inches long)- I run it through the back loop and the tour pack mounting hardware then tucked the square lock right up and underneath and in between the tour pack and the tour pak mounting bracket. Works very well - but a would be thief could still take it off with enough time and the right tools - but then again, you could unbolt anything if you had the right tools and time...
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