Quote:Gees, Is it possible to mount a pickup truck box to this thing? Or maybe there might be a way to put a trailer hitch on this bike so you might be able to trail a camper, or even a boat.
You betcha! What with ideas picked up here I'm planning on a pair of siderails with recievers to take both a trailer hitch and a two foot by three foor pickup box -- with tailgate.
Quote:Can't you just ride for enjoyment?
While riding is enjoyable, for many of us the bike is
NOT simply a
TOY for playing with.
Quote: Does the bike have to haul your worthless junk around? Does this bike have to be a pick-em-up-truck?
Some of us do not have the luxery of owning multiple vehicles. For some of us the Bike is our
ONLY transportation. We do not
HAVE a pick-em-up-truck. We do not
HAVE a cage. We all need, at times, to haul our "worthless junk" around. (FWIW, my "worthless junk" is of infinite more value to me than your worthless carcass.) I would like to do so with my own vehicle rather than having to beg/borrow/steal someone else's vehicle.
Quote:This is a nitch motorcycle. It's lighter than anything with reasonable displacement. It just doesn't make sence to me to hang more junk on this machine.
You are not the center of the universe. Your opinion, while valid for you, does not apply to everyone. While you may feel the the Savage is a nitch motorcycle
MY SAVAGE is my sole means of transportation. I either ride, or someone else loses their cage for whatever time I am using it. I ride. I ride for pleasure. I ride to work. I ride to the store. I ride on vacation. I ride in heat. I ride in cold. I ride in sunshine. I ride in rain. I ride by day. I ride by night. I ride. I don't
DO CAGES if I can help it. I don't like being in a cage, I don't like the loss of vision and control. When I bring 20 or 30 pounds of gorceries home it is with the Bike. When I carry tools and spares and camping gear and a week's worth of clothing it is on the Bike. When I needed a couple of 10 foot long conduits for running the electricity to the pool deck I used the Bike. Being able to haul 4'x8' plywood would be a plus.
I don't HAVE a truck or a car or another motorcycle. I am married wirh children and cannot AFFORD another vehicle. The Savage has to do everything I need to do with regard to vehicles. If YOU feel I should not be using the Savage to haul my worthless junk around then YOU can buy me whatever YOU feel I should be using.
Otherwise I would appreciate it if you would get off my back and let us have a discussion of how to haul massive amounts of junk with the Savage.
The Savage is NOT just a toy -- contrary to your opinion.