Wondering if anyone has found another way to secure there detachable tour pak, besides using the detachable locks?

 

A big chain and pad lock would work.....

Sorry can't think of another asthetic and easy route....

 

Thanks anyway

 

If you're out on the road on a trip, and you don't want the PITA of taking it into the hotel room with you, one of the fastest and easiest things you can try is to cover the bike. If people still want it badly enough it will be gone, but the same thing can be said for the bike itself. Any way you could lock it into place could be defeated by a sufficiently committed thief.

(Heh...yet another option..., select a cheap motel, ground floor, and roll the bike right into the room with you. Reduces the odds considerably that someone is going to mess with your bike overnight!)

Best,

Doc

 

I use a small cable trigger lock on my detachable luggage rack. Small and not real noticable. only put it on when parked. Keep it in a jacket pocket.

 

Masterlock makes a vinyl coated cable lock that is about 4'. I run it through the tour pak mount and the rear wheel. It rolls up to about 12" when done. Bought it at Lowes I think.

 

What I did is punched out the spline stud that holds the latch assembly and put a 1/2 spacer (fits perfectly), found at True Value Hardware store. The I drilled a 1/8" hole through the spacer and in to the docking hardware that is mounted on the bike. Put a cap head bolt in and presto it is bolted down and no more vunerable to any other part on the bike.
matt

 

I drilled a small hole in the mounting bracket slightly above and to the side of the pivot where the cam locks is, ran a hex bolt with a nylon nut on the other side, this prevents the cam lock to rotate enough to remove the TP.

Also use zip-ties on the exposed cam rod where you push in to turn the cam. This way the release pin cannot be pushed in without cutting the zip-ties.

 

This was my home made detachable lock on my 08 Street Glide. Ten bucks at Wally World.

 

I used one of the Smith & Wesson cable locks I had laying around (its about 7 or 8 inches long)- I run it through the back loop and the tour pack mounting hardware then tucked the square lock right up and underneath and in between the tour pack and the tour pak mounting bracket. Works very well - but a would be thief could still take it off with enough time and the right tools - but then again, you could unbolt anything if you had the right tools and time...