Gears Navigator Tail Bag

A few years ago I really wanted to buy a large capacity tail bag for the FZ1N. I thought the ideal product was the BAGS CONNECTION Ballistic Cargobag 50L Tail Bag. It's a good size for touring light for up to a week, it has a tunnel design that helps keep it in place, but at over $300AUD shipped I really wanted to find something more cost effective.

2006 FZ1N Just before leaving Sydney en route to Townsville in 2010

Eventually I found the Gears Navigator tail bag, which is almost identical but at under $100CAD a much more cost effective solution. Not sure who copied who, but the Gears bag is great. I'm on my third sports bike since I bought the bag and I love it. Since then, a third player has released yet another almost identical bag, the AK Companion Cargo Tail Bag 50 L.

Anyway, the point of this post is to point out something I stumbled on today, an Australian eBay seller with the Gears bag running out at under half what I paid for mine.

TOUR PAK TP 52 BIKE PAK MOTORCYCLE LUGGAGE BAG

I am not affiliated with the seller in any way, but $50 for a good tail bag is worth mentioning.

Givi Tank Ring for 2005 Yamaha YZF-R6

When the insurance company wrote off my R1, I managed to keep my Kappa Tanklock tank bag, but the tank ring that was attached to the bike went to auction with the bike. Too easy, the tank rings aren't expensive...

...except Givi don't list a ring for the 2005 R6.

Application chart for Yamaha motorcycles

I did some digging and ordered the BF05 tank ring. Given that my R6 uses a fairly standard (for Yamaha) 5 bolt tank filler assembly I was confident it would fit. Turns out it does. It would probably fit all modern Yamahas with a 5 bolt filler assembly.

 

BF05 tank ring fitted to my 2005 R6

EDIT: I thought I should mention that the ring assembly consists of two parts, the universal plastic ZT480F ring that comes with every Givi or Kappa Tanklock bag, and the bike specific metal BF series ring (BF05 in this case), these parts are sold separately. In my case, both the ZT480F and BF05 were lost when the crashed bike went to auction, this would be the same if you owned a second bike you wanted a ring mount for.