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the clear plastic rain bonnets for my tank bag and pillion bag (oxford lifetime luggage) have split from the rigors of winter riding.
anyone got a cheap replacement idea?
no. the trashcan liner is not exactly what i had in mind. the showercap was too small. those things that cover the polished silver might work if i could find a source and seal the seams.
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You have most likely already thought of this, but my wife and I use plastic bags to water proof our soft luggage. The trick is to use the bags inside the luggage. The luggage gets wet of course but the contents do not. We are able to use the plastic bags many times before they need replacing.
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yep. i use the venerable zip-loc bags inside my luggage. like duct tape, i dont know how i lived without the marvelous zip-loc bag.
i need the rain bonnets to keep rainwater from seeping into the map pockets. the seams are sealed. but i swear that the zipper actually channels water into the map pocket.
some of the stuff that i keep in the map pocket has been laminated. however, it would be nice to keep the mapquest printouts dry.
i figured some hardcore rider on this site might have figured out the best and cheapest way to solve the problem.
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I had a suggestion, but before I looked dumb. I did go on there web site. I didn't even see where you could buy a replacement, but the site does say life time guarantee
* Except the rain Bonnet.
Man I hate those asterisk.
I once made a water proof pouch for a laser receiver at work. I used one of those seal a meal machine and their plastic bags cut up. I cut the shapes I needed and then just heat sealed/welded them and in my case inserted the machine and sealed the whole bag. The plastic they use is very tuff and worked great for our purpose.
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As wussy as it sounds, check with a wife/mother/girlfriend for a source of elastic bowl covers. They are heavy plastic with an elastic perimeter and come in a wide range of sizes that may work on tank/tail bags. They are also cheap.
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thanx, docta.
the bowl covers that i have seen so far are not clear plastic, but sort of opaque. thus, reading anything in the tankbag window is impossible.
i also tried the covers that are found on fancy dishwear/china when its stored in cupboards. some of this stuff was clear but had a seam stitched around the top. it was good as a dust cover but wouldnt shed rain.
i fooled around with some stick-to-itself food wrap. the effort required wasnt worth it.
the next time i shop for a tankbag i am going to be more picky. if you have a stacking tankbag, the rain cover may be too small for the whole stack. or too big for any single piece of it.
one would think that after a 100yrs of motorbiking that the tankbag design would be bullet proof by now.
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| I have some older soft luggage from the Bagman, they are long gone I think, and the rain covers lost their waterproof lining over the years. recently I took a small paint brush and painted on a rubber coating called Plasti Dip which you can buy at Home Depot I think and it is generally used for dipping handles of tools to rubberize them. Anyway, the stuff works like a charm, stays flexible and looks like it was sprayed on in the factory. So maybe if your rain covers are leaking you could try this.
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| The currently working fix for this is: The clear plastic zippered cases that quilts and bedding comes in has been cut to fit (salvaged). It seems tough enough and flexible enough to drape over the tank and the pillion bags. I cut a large rubber band from an old truck tire inner tube to hold the material around the base of the bags. I had to cut several of these bands to get two with enough elasticity to hold the plastic in place on each bag and not so much as to distort the bags. This is a truly ugly look. But it sheds rain giving me the confidence and the peace of mind that I so desperately need. I can read my map pocket. And the penny tech solution means that I am not out anything should the effort fail. And as ugly as it is, its still not as ugly as the rider. (One of the many signs of a biker who rides all the time is that his tankbag rain bonnet is always on the bag.) Naturally, I am still on the lookout for a better way. The Ortlieb dry tankbags are on my wish list when I suddenly come into found finances.
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Franny, why does it have to be flexible? How about a thin piece of clear plastic. The thinner ones have some flex to them. You can use one of those bathtub clear waterproof glues to seal the material around it.
Now, let me get this right - is it one down, four up?
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| Good point, rootie. After some thought on this, my brain is locked on 'flexible' because the original rain bonnet covered the side pockets which have zippers exposed to rain. The material needs to come over the top edge of the bag to shed rain off the perimiter zipper and continue down the sides of the bag to cover lower compartments. It needs to be a little flexible to form over bulges and irregular packing forms. Being able to fold the material for storage is a plus. Even though the material in on the bag most of the time, being able to take it off and on in a hurry and stow it for the day is a plus. I am willing to try a thin piece of clear plastic. Post a better description so that I have a clearer idea of what you have in mind. A little background on this idiocy: I was at a bike show with the express purpose of buying a tankbag system and getting the 'show special' price. The other bag that I was looking at was a Tourmaster. The pricing was the same. And I could not for the life of me decide which bag had a feature that I couldnt live without. It literally came down to aesthetics. The Tourmaster had big ugly (to me) zippers. Note to crowd-big ugly zippers probably work better/longer before giving up. In a lot of very small ways, the oxford bag added up and took a slight lead. The oxford bag had tie-down points, stacked nicely, and could be divided for separate usage as tank and pillion bag with e-z access to both. Trying to find a rider with 100k miles on a naked bike with a tank bag out of which he lived year round, is impossible. Anybody having access to Dr. Fraizer can ask him how far he can get with a tank bag before it gives up? Anybody think that Fraizer has a tank bag that made all 5 global trips plus his daily stuff? The life of a tank bag might be extended considerably if it lives behind a windshield-fairing. Mine is right out there with me. You would be surprised how many riders are impressed that the leading surface of my tank bag has nearly as many road bugs as my headlight.
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