Which tank bag do you guys use, I had a BMW small tank bag on my last GS but found it a bit of a flaff with the strap and when putting fuel although obviously the fit was spot on. Thinking of a quick evo engage or city tank bag by SW Motech, anybody got a photo of one on a GS?
Tank Bag?
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Stolen from Google but this is exactly what I have on the GSA.
Great for when you don't want anything in your pockets or when touring. If I lost it would buy another.
Great for when you don't want anything in your pockets or when touring. If I lost it would buy another.
Stolen from Google but this is exactly what I have on the GSA.
Great for when you don't want anything in your pockets or when touring. If I lost it would buy another.
This is the only tank bag to have on any bike
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Givi 602 tank lock
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Sw motech day bag with rain cover and map holder.
I have the 605 tanklockED, similar but can be locked to the bike
That, as a friend of mine once famously said, when describing some work of modern art he’d just seen, looks like a ping pong ball balanced on a cow’s cnut.
A marvellous and evocative simile; once heard never forgotten.
A marvellous and evocative simile; once heard never forgotten.
I'll remember that every time i use it 
I'll remember that every time i use it
Please do.
PS The best tank bags I have used? Certainly not the BMW offering, for exactly the same reasons as in the opening post. Not the ones that engage with a horseshoe ring thing, that leave the bag perched up like a ping pong ball on.... nor the magnetic ones, that attract metal (like your keys) with an attraction that is, well, let’s say, magnetic.
Which brings us neatly to the offerings from Touratech / Wunderlich, whose much simpler bags I have used for years. Easy to take off and put on or just ‘flapped up’ (forwards or backwards) and above all reasonably interchangeable between bikes, despite their apparently different tank shapes. I have the small ‘City’ bag that I’ve had for years, that has been on assorted bikes (Honda Blackbird, SP2, CBR 600 RR) and then GS / GSA up to the twin cam (I have never owned the twin cam or WC iterations of the bike) and on an HP4, my 1600 GT and HP2 Sport. Similarly, one of their larger bags, which I use on several bikes, too.
Rather than buy several bags, I just contacted the maker, obtaining from them the pads that hold the front of the bag on, the rear only being held on by velcro anyway. The spare front pads I just velcro into place on each bike. They have never come off in many miles of use in all weathers and temperatures.
The ‘City’ bag I have had for so long that I forget when I first bought it. So long in fact that eventually the zip failed. Rather than buy a new bag, I had a dress repair place sew a new zip in for a few pounds. Measure the zip, find one of exactly or near enough the correct length and with the right sort of teeth, which you can do on the internet or with a bit of patience in the haberdashery department of most large stores; job done.
My aging SW-Motech City bag has been on 3 Triumphs and 2 GSs. I can't see how it looks when I'm riding, so that's OK.��
hatzyian
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I have the Sw Motech GS tank bag for bigger capacity, and have the smaler EVO City bag for my wife's KTM 390 Duke. Both bags will fit either bike. The City is good for just chucking a few items in, plus its expandable like the GS bag.
Camel Toe
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DazGS
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Looks good i am trying to decide between this and the genunine BMW tank bag, took a look at the givi xs308 but was not that keen on the look. The one above is it the Evo city bag?
Fit looks better than some, got any other photos? which model is it?
buncobooth
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I have the City and the Daypack, I stopped using the City pretty much as the Daypack holds enough for me, and also allows the map holder on top. The City for some reason you can't have the rain cover with the map holder (it is an older version) but the Daypack you can fit it over the map holder which is useful.
Thinking about it, I have the Day Pack, not the City bag.
I use the SW Motech evo engage tank bag (7L capacity)....click on, click off...easy peasy.
More than enough room for one's essentials
More than enough room for one's essentials
I use the SW Motech evo engage tank bag (7L capacity)....click on, click off...easy peasy.
More than enough room for one's essentials
I have one of these for sale - see the for sale section.
I ruminated for hours about this same thing and eventually went for the OEM small tank bag. I don't think the straps are a faff. 3 clicks (one at the top and two at the bottom and its on. Fits like it should and is waterproof so you don't need to 'faff' around when dark clouds loom putting on a shower cap.
Bonnet de douch rodders!
Bonnet de douch rodders!
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