Well I got home from work yesterday and momma wasn't at home. She finally arrived a couple of hours later and flopped a box on the garage floor and said " Happy birthday, now put this on! ". It was a Kuryakyn tourbox extender kit. Well I got to work and diassembled what seemed like most of the rear of the bike, even though it wasn't. It sure seemed like it to me. Install was pretty straight forward, but the new bolts were too large for a couple of holes so I used the stock ones. After everything was buttoned up tight, I called momma down for a quick fit check. Boy was she happy!

Now she's got plenty of room, and I won't have her legs on my sides to sweat me when it's hot out. I whole heartedly recommend this upgrade to any Ultra owners if they ride two up. The stock setup just doesn't allow much room for the passenger.

 

What are you gonna five her for her birthday? New cams? Let her wash it for you? Big bore kit?

 

Very nice, is this available with the quick detach kit?

Mac

 

I installed the extender kit last month and to my knowledge I don't think you can get it with a quick detach. It does give you a good two inches or more of extra room, but imho it changes the ride just a bit with the weight move back off, but I'm sure it's just something I have to get used to.

 

Sorry I haven't gotten back before now. We just got back from a trip to Helen, GA. Boy that place looks pretty bad. A tornado came through Helen last week when Katrina went through. One end of town is tore up pretty bad. The trip up was nice, and the tourpak extender made the trip all the more pleasant.

Now if I could just get momma to take over cleaning the bike, everything would be perfect!

Mac, my friend has the quick detach tourpak on his RoadGlide and it looks like it sets back on the bike like mine with the extender. I haven't heard of an extender for the quick detach.

 

On a off shoot of your post.. sorry to hear that about Helen, I spent months there years back putting in their phone system for the Telco company.

What was funny when we finally cut over the remote offices, I had tested every site it passed the 5 9’s tests.

Well we cut over and not a single line rang. So cities with dial tone, but no ringing. Back in the day a ring generator makes ringing tones, difference cycles are used.
Its all done via dip switches and normally a dip switch “0� means off and “1� means on. Just basic electronics.. so I set the switches on all the ring generators.. from a central office install manual.. not a big deal.



After hours.. of an escalated call due to no phones ringing in the city, with every engineer for the phone company, my tech support.. guy say’s “Terry.. did you read the note on page X�.. all you could hear was pages flipping of this 1000 page manual, on the conference call. Up to that minute I was pretty smug.. I knew my chit was right…

Well the side note: .. in small print.. on the ring generators used 0 = on, 1= off.


With shoulders dropped…I went back to every remote in the city and surrounding cities.. and changed every ring generator .. to the correct settings.. and voila the ringing worked.

Everyone agreed it was a bad design to change a standard dipswitch to exact opposite, and I started reading side notes in my engineering manuals. Lesson learned.. damage done <grin>.


I spent many a night at the "Heidi Inn".. I stayed there so long that the owners would leave a key in the mailbox for me when I came in late Sunday evenings. I stayed in the same room for months (while I was busy screwing up their ring generators) and they would let me keep my things there even when I wasn't. It was funny, the people were so nice I couldn't leave even though the mattress had a hole in it the size of me.. it was like sleeping in bowl.