Beverages, Ice and Saddlebags
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Lockport Township, IL
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I drilled a couple holes in the bottom of the left saddlebag so as the ice melts the water can drain out. I fill the left bag with beer and ice. I start the rides with the right bag empty. I put the empties in the right saddlebag. After a couple hundred miles, there is quite a bit of ratteling from all the empties. That is what rest areas are for. Empty the right saddlebag (and the bladder).
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I have the Harley cooler for my Ultra. It does not leak, however the ice last only 5 - 6 hours on a very hot day. Most of the time it is good enough. Maybe for a camp trip it would not be ideal. The saddle bag bottom gets very hot. It helps to have a couple of wipe down rags on the bottom to insulate from exhaust heat. All in all not a bad product. T
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I took my wife on what she thought was a very long road trip two years ago. We rode about 300 miles and ended up where some of my family was camping along a river.
I took all of our stuff out of our saddlebags and piled it on the ground and headed to the nearest little store and filled the bags with beer and then topped them off with ice. I drove the couple miles back to the campsite and we drank out of my bags the rest of the day.
By evening it was mostly water left in the bags. My wife became very upset with me because she wanted to know how I was going to get all that water out of there so she could put her stuff back in the bags. I told her to get on and hold on tight. I was going to wheelie around until all the water was out.
Just when she was about to give up, I undid the two clips on the bag and dumped it out. You should've saw the look on her face.
Dennis
I took all of our stuff out of our saddlebags and piled it on the ground and headed to the nearest little store and filled the bags with beer and then topped them off with ice. I drove the couple miles back to the campsite and we drank out of my bags the rest of the day.
By evening it was mostly water left in the bags. My wife became very upset with me because she wanted to know how I was going to get all that water out of there so she could put her stuff back in the bags. I told her to get on and hold on tight. I was going to wheelie around until all the water was out.
Just when she was about to give up, I undid the two clips on the bag and dumped it out. You should've saw the look on her face.
Dennis
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