I own a 2011 Road King. I purchased the bike in November 2010. 6 months later I installed a detachable tour pak with a luggage rack on top. I live in Maryland and ride year round. I have taken a few trips to Wisconsin, the Keys, New Orleans and occasionally I will have a T Bag on the luggage rack. Well today I was riding with nothing on the tour pak and a towel in the tour pak, I rode over a man hole cover that was slightly depressed so it created a bump. After riding over it the tour pak fell off. The tour pak broke around the attachment bracket. Has anybody seen this before? Fortunately I wasn't two up but it makes me worried about it.

 

Wow, I've never seen anything like that before. Glad nobody was hurt.

 

That must have been one hell of a bump!!!!

 

WOW...are you sure there was a cover on that manhole...??

Never seen that type of TP damage...sheared right off. Have you taken it in to the dealer for their assessment. Could've been a flaw in the plastic/mold process.

 

ouch, no never seen this ....till today, looks like you could repair with fibreglass, but back to your question.....is the TP mounted and has all the spacers etc? Maybe the bottom is being stressed during the bolt up and the pop hole finished it off....sorry but it hard not seeing in person

 

I bet that got your attention when it flew off. Never thought about a failure like that. I will be checking everytime I wash from now on.

 

I doubt if that was caused by a single bump, but has been developing for quite a long while. If you bought it new it is certainly doing as Iceman suggests and take it all to a dealer for inspection. Those things are virtually bullet-proof IMHO! Mine is older than my bike, at almost 30 years old and still going strong - touch wood.....

 

That's a first ( I think ) For a minute I thought it may have been a "knock off" Tour Pack, but I see the HD warning sticker in the third picture. As others have stated, good thing no one got hurt.

 

I think the old tour paks were made of fiberglass. This one is ABS plastic. I took it to the dealer. No help. It broke right at the edge of the internal metal plate and not at the edge of the tour pak. I am thinking of fabricating a metal plate that will go out to the edge of the tour pak. I would epoxy the plate to the tour pak. This should move the stress to the vertical sides and not the horizontal part. My biggest concern was that I didn't have any warning. No visible cracks. No fraying of the paint. I just might have been unlucky as no one I have spoken with has ever seen this before. I am just glad I wasn't two up as I could have lost more than just the tour pak.

 

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