Thoughts on racks and top boxes

[tommymck]

For me personally, I'm a fan of easily removable soft rear bags. The grab bars give you plenty of places to strap bags on. The same sort of thing works with a rear rack, but to be honest, the CB1100 isn't ideally suited in my opinion for 2 up long-distance travelling. I'm completely happy with the bags on the rear end of the seat, and I'm not stuck with the looks of the rack when I'm riding locally. It even acts as a nice back rest which is nice on longer trips. I usually strap a small tail bag to the top of the larger bag so that when I arrive at the destination, I take the big bag off and just use the small tail bag when riding around at the destination. And both of the bags remove in less than a minute.