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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | This better work. I'll wrap the case in some waterproofing plastic tight to the case. My seating position on the bike prohibits me from leaning on the case, so no problem there. It is tied down to the frame under the passenger seat and against the passenger back rest via the rack on top of the tourpack. Very secure. Somebody remind me to remove the guitar before trying to clear the garage door header!
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Location: closely held secret | Looks great, Brad! What are you planning on putting in the case? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I've done the garage thing with skis and bikes. Just remember it's on there when you come back home. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | I think a Turban and a Dolly-Pardon-long-hair wig on the case would get you a lot more notice (equals motorcycle safety) as well as allowing you to use the diamond Lanes!
BTW Don't forget to duck on the way in...
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Location: NJ | Get yourself a roll of shrink-wrap . . . |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Got an extra helmet for the case? |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Originally posted by The Wabbit Formerly Known As Waskel:
What are you planning on putting in the case? I'm picking up something at Miles' house. Tim sent it earlier in the week. Do full bowl flames ring a bell? |
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Location: NJ | ". . Got an extra helmet for the case? . ."
Funny you should mention that . . .
I have a very good Russian friend who lives in Kiev. Whenever he comes over (one/twice a year), he brings me things from the "MotherLand" (I'm of Russian descent). Besides some KILLER vodka (that you can't get here), he brings me assorted other paraphernalia . . .
One year, he brought me an official USSR government-issue Officer's vodka flask (emblazoned with a raised, cloisonne RedStar/Hammer&Sickle), a RussianNavy submariner's undershirt (blue&white horizontal stripes - think "Hunt for RedOctober"), and a leather flying helmet (with reinforced leather padding at the ears & a strip at the top of the head for if/when your head hits the inside of the plane's "canopy".
The helmet is far too snug for my huge "melon" . . . but it's a PERFECT fit for over the end of an Ovation Case!!
In my garage, I've got a rolling rack that holds 6 Ovation cases (standing upright). My 3-4 gig cases go in/out of that along with a couple other cases. I put the helmet onto the headstock-end of the SlotHead case, as the padded "ears" protect it (and the adjacent ones) from getting slammed side-to-side . . .
I've asked him to bring me some MORE of those, as they offer PERFECT protection of the headstock-end of the case when shipping a guitar in an Ovation shipping box. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Take the case around for a test drive sans guitar. Hit a couple of bumps to see if it gets jarred loose. By the way, that is a beautiful bike. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Last year at this time I drove to San Diego for a Porsche event. I had just received the OFC and was much more into that than Porsches. I took the OFC along, riding in the passenger seat, but got down the road before I realized that I forgot my helmet that is a requirement for the autocross. The only place I would have had room for the helmet would have been on the headstock end of the case.
On the way back I got stopped for speeding and the cops spent a great deal of time trying to figure out what was in my passenger seat. (They didn't seem to think I could hear them talking across the top of a convertible.) I could imagine what the conversation would have been if the case had a helmet on it. |
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Location: Jet City | Originally posted by cliff:
he brings me assorted other paraphernalia . . .
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Location: Maple Shade, NJ. | Hee Hee........ |
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Location: East Wenatchee, WA | Professor,
I used to haul my 1537 around on my 2005 Goldwing this way. The only problem I had is after a few bumps the bottom of the case would start to work it's way forward and it would be resting against my back which got quite annoying after a while.
I would try to find some way (maybe a small net of some kind) to attach somethign to the bottom and have it pulling it back.
I couldn't get 10 or 15 miles before the case would be a real nuisance.
Love the Beemer. I have someone coming to buy my V-strom tonight, so I may be back in the market for another Wing or perhaps a K1200LT. Any insights you want to offer on the bike? |
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Location: closely held secret | I would think some kind of belt across the front of the case from tie-down to tie-down would keep it there.
That is a nice bike. For some reason I expected you to be coming up on your Harley.
Jeff, did you decide the V-strom wasn't your cup o tea? |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | JeffreyD, PM me off-line. I bought the K1200LT new in 1999 and it has 60,000 miles, most in touring mode. I also had a hopped up K1200RS and a GS against which to compare it. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Must admit, never understood the attraction to 'donorcycles'.
(as they're known in the emergency rooms of the world.)
But then, I owned a moped in France in the 70's. |
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Location: closely held secret | Around here riding a motorcycle is safer than riding mass transit. |
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Motorcycles and Ovation: Part II