Wilsons Sandbox

Yes!!!!!!! Use on and off road! Herm "Paint" A15 At 05:28 PM 5/22/2007, you wrote:

>well now that gas here in indy hit 3.59 a gallon today i think the >klr650 will get more commuting use now. has anybody got the travel >trunks from j.c. whitney? it seems to be pretty cheap. i think i need >something that locks and will hold a small sack of what ever i buy at >wally world. anything better out there? any ideas? thanks to all.

Quite a few of us use that trunk. I like mine and think it is a great buy for the money. My XXXL brain bucket will not fit in it however. Capt. Bob in Durham, CT. USA http://www.essexsteamtrain.com/ http://seniorbiker.blogspot.com 2006 A6F KLR Green Tires: Mefo 99 Explorers Country roads (20% dirt), dual tracks. NY State and Northern New England

----- Original Message ----- From: harold650 To: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 8:28 PM Subject: [DSN_KLR650] j.c.whitney travel trunk well now that gas here in indy hit 3.59 a gallon today i think the klr650 will get more commuting use now. has anybody got the travel trunks from j.c. whitney? it seems to be pretty cheap. i think i need something that locks and will hold a small sack of what ever i buy at wally world. anything better out there? any ideas? thanks to all. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

I bought one, thinking that it looked a lot like the more expensive GIVI top box. Well, it looks similar, but the latch which detaches it from the mounting plate gave up after only a few hundred miles. I just bolted it down to the rear "deck" directly, and leave it on all the time. Definitely not as advertised, but maybe worth the limited investment. If you regularly shop at Wallyworld it's probably the trunk for you. -- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "harold650" wrote:

> > well now that gas here in indy hit 3.59 a gallon today i think the > klr650 will get more commuting use now. has anybody got the travel > trunks from j.c. whitney? it seems to be pretty cheap. i think i need > something that locks and will hold a small sack of what ever i buy at > wally world. anything better out there? any ideas? thanks to all. >

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "harold650" wrote:

> > well now that gas here in indy hit 3.59 a gallon today i think the > klr650 will get more commuting use now. has anybody got the travel > trunks from j.c. whitney? it seems to be pretty cheap. i think i need > something that locks and will hold a small sack of what ever i buy at > wally world. anything better out there? any ideas? thanks to all. >

I've bought 3 of them in the last 3 years and am okay with them. Only one I had trouble with was the last one I bought for my DL1000 and the spring came out of the latch return. I found some springs at a local hareware and preplaced them with with a better spring. Works great so far. The older type, I've run on my EX GS BMW for about 30,000 miles all over the country using it to carry my computer and stuffs. Also one on my KLR bouncing around Arkansas, Big Bend and Louisiana back roads has been there for the last 15,000 miles. So far so good. '43 Andy n SW Louisiana '00 KLR '03 Chevy truck '06 DL1000

I've been using a Rubbermaid "Action Packer" for about two years on and off road. Big, cheap ($14.99 at WalMart) and very tough. I am very happy with this box. It has holes for a padlock. http://www.standoutnet.com/extras/mike/motorcycles/klr650/toolbox/index. html Mike A18 KLR650 tires page: [www.standoutnet.com/extras/mike/motorcy ... r650/tires] -----Original Message----- From: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com [mailto:DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of harold650 Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 8:29 PM To: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com Subject: [DSN_KLR650] j.c.whitney travel trunk well now that gas here in indy hit 3.59 a gallon today i think the klr650 will get more commuting use now. has anybody got the travel trunks from j.c. whitney? it seems to be pretty cheap. i think i need something that locks and will hold a small sack of what ever i buy at wally world. anything better out there? any ideas? thanks to all. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Which trunk are we talking about? I went to J.C.Whitney's on line catalog and found at least 5 different trunks. Craig Kahler Fredericksburg, VA --- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "Andrus Chesley" wrote:

> > --- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "harold650" wrote: > > > > well now that gas here in indy hit 3.59 a gallon today i think

the

> > klr650 will get more commuting use now. has anybody got the

travel

> > trunks from j.c. whitney? it seems to be pretty cheap. i think i

need

> > something that locks and will hold a small sack of what ever i

buy at

> > wally world. anything better out there? any ideas? thanks to all. > > > I've bought 3 of them in the last 3 years and am okay with them.

Only

> one I had trouble with was the last one I bought for my DL1000 and

the

> spring came out of the latch return. I found some springs at a local > hareware and preplaced them with with a better spring. Works great

so

> far. > The older type, I've run on my EX GS BMW for about 30,000 miles all > over the country using it to carry my computer and stuffs. Also one

on

> my KLR bouncing around Arkansas, Big Bend and Louisiana back roads

has

> been there for the last 15,000 miles. So far so good. > > '43 Andy n SW Louisiana > '00 KLR '03 Chevy truck '06 DL1000 >

11,000 miles on mine and no problems what so ever. The mount is solid and it holds more than you think. Holds my helmet and tank bag when I leave the bike in a parking lot. Long on function, short on style, so it compliments the KLR well. Keith Idaho KLR

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "harold650" wrote: > > well now that gas here in indy hit 3.59 a gallon today i think the > klr650 will get more commuting use now. has anybody got the travel > trunks from j.c. whitney? it seems to be pretty cheap. i think i need > something that locks and will hold a small sack of what ever i buy at > wally world. anything better out there? any ideas? thanks to all. >

One of my riding buddies had a JC Whitney tail box come apart on him on our trip to Baja. We held it on the bike with everything we had: http://johnbiccum.smugmug.com/gallery/2549433#P-3-15> http://johnbiccum.smugmug.com/gallery/2549433#P-3-15 . It was a hassle to lash it on every morning and relash it every time we took something out of it. By contrast I put over 40K on a set of A36 Givi's. Buy them used and they are about the same price as the JC Whitney's box. I crashed the A36s offroad too many times to count, the bags were scuffed but undamaged. I've used them as field-expedient centerstands, campfire chairs and footstools, workstands for changing tires. Same boxes can be used as tailbags and as side bags. I know lots of people that have seen good service from the JC Whitney box and only know of a few people (but more than one) that have broken them. But I have never heard of anyone that has broken a Givi A36, and that makes them worth their price to me. Givi bags may be close to indestructable but thier mounting hardware is not. I have seen the failure of the "case lock cover" Givi part Z101 ($10.40) http://johnbiccum.smugmug.com/gallery/342966#29781857 but these are cheap and easy to replace in the field. Just replace them BEFORE they crack in half or the Z108 push button ($2.30), the two bolt springs (Z109 $0.25 each), the Z168 push button spring ($0.50) and the Z106 latch plate (~$8) will be ejected onto the road and will A36 case will follow about 30 milliseconds later. I had an A36 hit the road at 65mph, bounce down a rockly slope and into a stream. But the case (and the notebook computer therein) were undamaged. The case was held on easily and securely http://johnbiccum.smugmug.com/gallery/919812#56958154 for the rest of the trip until I got it home and replaced the missing hardware. I carried the Givi hardware spares in my tankbag from that point forward. Before running the JC Whitney box I'd consider the potential cost of failure of the box. If you are usually close to home and don't typically carry any fragile, expensive or vital cargo in the box the cost of failure might be equal to the (modest) cost of buying another box. But if you travel far from home and/or carry expensive, fragile or critically needed cargo, the cost of failure might be greater than the cost of a set of much more robust bags. BTW after 40K miles of (ab)use I replaced my Givi A36s with Pelican cases. I think the Pelicans can take more than I can: http://johnbiccum.smugmug.com/gallery/2549433#136747357 _____ From: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com [mailto:DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Andrus Chesley Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 06:38 To: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Re: j.c.whitney travel trunk --- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogro ups.com, "harold650" wrote:

> > well now that gas here in indy hit 3.59 a gallon today i think the > klr650 will get more commuting use now. has anybody got the travel > trunks from j.c. whitney? it seems to be pretty cheap. i think i need > something that locks and will hold a small sack of what ever i buy at > wally world. anything better out there? any ideas? thanks to all. >

I've bought 3 of them in the last 3 years and am okay with them. Only one I had trouble with was the last one I bought for my DL1000 and the spring came out of the latch return. I found some springs at a local hareware and preplaced them with with a better spring. Works great so far. The older type, I've run on my EX GS BMW for about 30,000 miles all over the country using it to carry my computer and stuffs. Also one on my KLR bouncing around Arkansas, Big Bend and Louisiana back roads has been there for the last 15,000 miles. So far so good. '43 Andy n SW Louisiana '00 KLR '03 Chevy truck '06 DL1000 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "John Biccum" wrote:

> > One of my riding buddies had a JC Whitney tail box come apart on him

on our

> trip to Baja. We held it on the bike with everything we had: > http://johnbiccum.smugmug.com/gallery/2549433#P-3-15> > http://johnbiccum.smugmug.com/gallery/2549433#P-3-15 . It was a

hassle to

> lash it on every morning and relash it every time we took something

out of

> it.

Do you know which model he had, they put out 3 or 4 different ones now. I have the old cheap black one on my KLR with no problems, had the same one on my R1150GS with no problems. Have the new one in medium size that kinda looks just like a Givi with the red band around it and has a metal mounting plate instead of the plastic one of old. But same size. That's the one I had to change the springs in pretty fast. Andy in Louisiana