EZ Q RT owners

[26667]

Here, perhaps, is a weird one. What do you RT owners put on your "accessory shelf?"

[PGlaves]

Here, perhaps, is a weird one. What do you RT owners put on your "accessory shelf?"

Accessories.

[26667]

snort-laff!!!

[MLS2GO]

My R1200Rt has a Legal Speeding Case with a Escort 8500 with a Parnes Visual Alert, a Garmin 478 with XM Weather Antenna and a Spot.

[26667]

I've never really been a gadget guy and just bought this used RT w two big hunks of velcro on the shelf. I figured i could velcro the back of my I-Pass, but I've been scrtaching my head about what else to buy. I'd wondered about using it for GPS. I s'pose radar would velcro on ok.

[jingdog]

I remember when this gadget stuff started. I was riding a VFR in a club with other VFR owners. The people who couldnt ride started putting gadgets on their handlebars. I thought "Wow they cant ride and their compensating for it by gadgets." I mean, its no shame not being able to ride as good as others...but to admit it by resorting to gadgets? Thats pretty pathetic.
One day the club forgot about the gadget people. I had just got my ST1100 and we were off on a club ride. When it was my turn to lead I found I could get out of the corners faster because of all the torque the engine had. Id put a lot of space between me and the guys behind me on VFRs. Well they took this as a challange! So they started getting their revs up real quick and pretty soon they were blowing by me! This resulted in about 200 miles of triple digit free for all!
Unfortunately the guys who had gadgets were trying to keep up. After a while we noticed Fred was missing. Hey wheres Freddie?! Uh oh. We forgot about all the gadgets he had and what that meant. Freddie went off into the woods, smashed up his bike and compound fractured his wrist. Oh boy. We all felt bad about that.
Now of course the gadget infection has spread even to people who can ride. Sometimes I buy a bike and its got one of those (empty) gadget shelves. I always take it off as soon as possible. Just in case theres still someone around who remembers what that means who might see it.

[bmw_rider]

I-pass

[Jeffhorn]

Fastrac pass, gps

[PGlaves]

Now - on a more serious note, I don't have a gadget shelf on any of my current bikes. I did on my K1100LT. On it were a GPS and Valentine 1.

My R1150R just isn't conducive to having a shelf, so those items are on RAM mounts. And since they are on RAM mounts on that bike, that is what I use on my K75RTP too.

If I had a shelf, and a SPOT, then the SPOT would go on the shelf. If I had a toll road transponder (EZPass or whatever) that might go on the shelf, if I had a shelf. Cell phone holder maybe - if out of the topcase and turned on, where coverage exists but it doesn't exist here - I hang mine on the windshield so I can at least hear it ring - even though I can't answer it. But with no coverage it seldom rings. If you ride toll roads that demand a quarter or two every few miles then one of those nice change holders with or without a bell that goes "cha-ching" would be nice on a shelf.

That's about all I can think of off the top of my head.

[PGlaves]

It is my pleasure to be acquainted with many Iron Butt Rally veterans and the winners from each of the rallies in the past decade or so. And they as a group have as many gadgets as any collection of riders I know.

And, they can ride - there is no doubt about that.

And there are very few if any testosterone laden tales of speed and crashing among the lot too.

[jingdog]

And there are very few if any testosterone laden tales of speed and crashing among the lot too.

I did it once. That was a hard lesson.