Tatonka

Thanks Pegscraper! I'll check Yamaha since I didn't find it in stock on the Star site. That kind of tip helps since there is a luggage rack from a Roadstar in EBAY but it is for a 2005. Do know which years will fit with a little "tweaking"? Thanks for your help

I apologize if this should have been under accessories but it seems to be a typical RSTD/RSTC question. I have a 98 Royal Star Classic where the previous owner added a Silverado windshield, hard bags and a sissybar with pad. I plan to do a lot of solo traveling, so I want to do the following: 1) replace the stock driver seat with my Corbin seat as a solo seat, remove the passenger seat and put a rack in place of that (I believe there was an OEM rack for the tour classic) 2) I want to keep the sissybar in place to attach a Riggpack to but would also like to add a luggage rack to the sissybar. I know it sounds redundant, but the idea is to ride solo (I weigh 314 lbs), have the Riggpack hanging over where the passenger seat was (but sitiing on the rack that replaced it) and still a sissybar luggage rack available for light items. Does anyone know where I can get (or have for sale), the solo rack and a luggage rack for a ten year old RSTC? You guys are such a wealth of info and thank you for all the other things you have helped me with already. Thanx

Nice to read that I'm not the only one to drop a bike. Thank goodness mine don't count because I only dropped my 82 XV920 in a couple of embarassing moments. 1) Packed high with more bags, luggage. gear than I should have had on a bike, dropped it in front of the hotel after getting a room and trying to get back on after 16 hours in the saddle. Didn't see anybody through the reflecting glass, so thought I got away with nobody witnessing my embarassment, when all of a sudden, about 10 people come running down the hotel steps and picked it up. I'm Black, but my face was definitely dark purple then. Bent the brake lever and broke the lens on the front turnsignal. 2) Next day, while leaving the American Legion Post with the Post Commander, I planned to take off flashing a high sign and showing him how to ride. Just happened to forget my brand new brake lock and wondered where that hole came from that threw me down. He helped this old man pick up the bike and got a hammer to help get the jammed lock open (I wonder what he told the 300 bikers that were leaving for the Legacy Run next day). Naw, just got a bad case of sunburn on my face. 3) After traveling 6000 miles with no further mishap, got the bike in the yard at home and wanted to clean it up. Left it for a moment on the kickstand to get the hose and it fell over. Well, I said three, but: 4) At a friend's house with a sloping driveway when his wife told me to stop while I was getting on so she could take a picture. Picture was of the bike falling which broke the clutch lever and the left turnsignal. Now I feel better, almost like going to confession. Guess who bought up all of the levers and turnsignals for an XV920 on EBAY. Since I bought the Guardian Bell have been very lucky and the 98 RTSC doesn't seem to be so top heavy. Ride safe, ride hard, but ride with God (and keep the dirty side down too). Ron

Jack & Bev, Sent up a prayer of thanks that you're both alive to tell us about it and I pray that your injuries heal quickly. God bless and keep safe. Tatonka "American by birth, Biker by choice, Minister by calling"

Great idea! I ask for your personal opinion in that some of us suffer from Monkey Butt and others from Wide Butt Syndrome, and as one having the second complication, I have a feeling that the bottle might poke into a tender thigh or posterior area. Do you think that could be a problem for those concerned? Have a great ridng season and thanks. Gypsy:080402gudl_prv:

Thanks Y'all, I haven't been motorcycle camping since I started crossing our country at 16 with my Harley Electra Glide. Didn't even have a tent then, just a sleeping bag, a half of a pup tent and an air mattress. That was back in the 60's and I remember taking baths in creeks and lakes (once I thought I was really far away from civilization when I was standing butt naked in a pond and a train went past very slowly). Camped like that during summer vacation and did at least two coast to coasts each summer and managed to hit most of the lower 48 before I went into the service. Cub and Boy Scouts were good for learning camping skills. Kind of lost the taste for camping (as well as hunting) in the service after two tours in Nam. Took three months on a bike to cool down after my last tour but visited buddies or stayed with relatives (PA, CO, CA). Now I'm 58, back into 2 wheelers after twenty years of trikes & couch scooters and last few trips have been with motels, but the prices have certainly climbed. Hear that some of the military bases have good campgrounds so I may try that out. I live in Germany where we have a camper but my fiance doesn't believe in tents. With me being too heavy to ride two up with gear, I travel alone by bike in the States. Will buy a 3 man dome tent next week (thanks for the tip about those tunnels, I had forgotten about the problems and the splinters from the fiberglass). I'll try a couple of days in Florida next week when I pick up my new EBAY bike. Maybe I can sleep in a sleeping bag and under a tent roof now, something we never did on LURPs (L.R.R.P.) in Nam. Do not, and I mean do not, sleep in washes or close to water and learn what the poisonous plants are. Take a good bug repellant cause that Nile Virus seems to be on the march in some states and take a buddy along to check each other for ticks. Hang your food out of reach and not in your tent. Bury and cover your waste away from the tent, and keep your trash in plastic and bury it too, but take the trash with you in the morning. I like animals but remember they are wild. I am always amazed at the people who think a bear is like their stuffed toy and cute. Feed a bear and make a problem bear. If you don't know what it is, don't touch it! If you leave your boots outside of your tent, always shake them out in the morning. I still do it automatically after 42 years. It's still true, don't touch the sides of your tent when they are wet and put a plastic sheet under your tent (plastic drop clothes for painters are not bad or expensive). Hope to see you on the road someday. Tatonka Hokehe