Using a sports bike for touring.
Discussion
Hi everyone,
Thought I could use a bit of PH advice as I'm soon going to embark on my first long distance ride (anything over 100 miles is long distance to me!)
The trip is accompanying my father on his CB1300 from Bath to Belfast using the best Welsh roads.
My current bike is a K4 GSXR 1000, it's not ideal as a tourer no, but I've been informed that its up to the task and the reviewers look like they agree.
Anyway, the problem I face is that of luggage and riding position. For luggage it looks like im stuck with my tank bag only, as I can't seem to find much else. Any ideas?
The main problem, and my biggest concern is the riding position. The height of the bike is fine, and was in fact lowered by abut 2" by the last owner. The concern however, is that of the clip on bars being too low for this journey. While they are great for hooning around or on tracks, for long distance the constant looking up will give me fair pain my neck and back. And the leaning on them will ache my arms. This probably wouldn't usually be a problem, but I was involved in a rather serious bike accident earlier this year in which I suffered two broken wrists, nine broken ribs, two cracked vertebrae in my neck and back and a whole load of other stuff. The bike (XJR1300) was a write off. If possible id like to get some raised clip ons, but have no idea where to look or what is best, please help!
Thanks for reading guys and gals, any advice would be highly appreciated
Pebbles.
Thought I could use a bit of PH advice as I'm soon going to embark on my first long distance ride (anything over 100 miles is long distance to me!)
The trip is accompanying my father on his CB1300 from Bath to Belfast using the best Welsh roads.
My current bike is a K4 GSXR 1000, it's not ideal as a tourer no, but I've been informed that its up to the task and the reviewers look like they agree.
Anyway, the problem I face is that of luggage and riding position. For luggage it looks like im stuck with my tank bag only, as I can't seem to find much else. Any ideas?
The main problem, and my biggest concern is the riding position. The height of the bike is fine, and was in fact lowered by abut 2" by the last owner. The concern however, is that of the clip on bars being too low for this journey. While they are great for hooning around or on tracks, for long distance the constant looking up will give me fair pain my neck and back. And the leaning on them will ache my arms. This probably wouldn't usually be a problem, but I was involved in a rather serious bike accident earlier this year in which I suffered two broken wrists, nine broken ribs, two cracked vertebrae in my neck and back and a whole load of other stuff. The bike (XJR1300) was a write off. If possible id like to get some raised clip ons, but have no idea where to look or what is best, please help!
Thanks for reading guys and gals, any advice would be highly appreciated
Pebbles.
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