Got my hands on some unobtanium

[Hook#3287]

Bought some I/S bags with these and lid racks for a good deal.



Taking them off turned out to be pretty easy with a hair dryer and some thin string.

I was surprised how easy, till I saw how little of the original adhesive tape was actually contacting.

But, it was enough, cause I couldn't lift them with my fingernail before heating.

[The emperor has no clothes]

Sweet  you putting them on Georgia ?

[Hook#3287]

Yup

[Psychotic Bovine]

When I got those for my Valk, I wish I had gotten several pair. 
I also should have bought the entire stock of chrome side covers when I got mine from the dealer for $74.  He had 2 more sets.

Those chrome saddlebag kick plates were kind of rare even when they were in production.

[hubcapsc]

I got a new set real cheap recently  ...



-Mike

[Jess from VA]

I believe those are called bag scuff guards.

My first bike came with them, and a lot of other Honda add-on parts.

One of the most unobtainium parts there is.

That bike also came with the Honda add-on curvy bag racks.  They look nice, but are essentially nothing more than fancy lift handles (and they require drilling and waterproof mounting with RTV sealant and rubber washers).  I think I've only seen one guy ever actually bungee something to his lid racks.

However, for those who take kids on their back seat, those lid racks work pretty well as scuff guards for little feet than the actual bag scuff guards, which small kid's feet cannot reach.

[old2soon]

Sooooooooooo i'm guessin here I done good when I bought my I/S and the scuff guards were already there?  GOOD score!  RIDE SAFE.

[Hook#3287]

You're right Jess, the bag lid guards are basically fancy lid handles, a set came on my I/S.

But, I'm glad to have em, cause they are great lid handles for the I/S.

I got a set on a Tourer I bought and I took them off and sold them.

[Jess from VA]

Same deal on my interstate (IS) Bill. 

And if they're on there, it makes keeping your IS lid cable ties in good, tight working order even more important.  When my lid departed the bike on the freeway a couple years ago, and was exploded by a soccer mom in her minivan (after 100 other cars drove around it as I was sprinting back up the breakdown lane 220 yards to retrieve it), it made the lid replacement a whole lot more expensive finding another out of production lid rack to match the other side.

My supervalk has smooth bag tops (with just the solo rack on the fender where the rear seat goes), and I like that look better than racks all the way across - busy).

[Hook#3287]

Yeah, those cables

I know their important, if you want to hang on to the lids.

They were not attached when I got my I/S and I spent a lot of time figuring out how they were supposed to be.

Not to mention, no screws and some of the cable end stays were missing.

[Jess from VA]

No kidding, the entire IS lid cable tie deal is one of the most Rube Goldberg lash-ups I have ever seen.  So is trying to study the complex (thousand bitty parts) Honda IS parts fishe for IS bags.

The story behind them is that the (new) '99 IS was rushed into production, and it was only discovered late that the Tourer lid hinges made the lids smack into the trunk after only a few inches, and THAT wasn't going to cut it.

Rube Goldberg (the cartoonist)


Honda IS parts fishe:  (WTF?????)


Ordering my long bitty parts list, I had to keep running out to the bikes and look at them, then back to the computer, then back out to the bike, and so on. (broken printer)  Then when the parts arrived, it was still a bit of a Rubik's cube on how it all went together (I had to stick the lid down inside the bag sideways to get both attachment points close enough together to attach the shorty cables on both sides).  It was either that or I needed to winch my legs up to the ceiling and work upside down on them.

[hubcapsc]

-Mike "I can't help myself"

[KUGO]

RE: mind-blowing, exploded diagram, vague instructions, etc.

I took in my Cadillac for regular service. I made a comment, while talking with the Service Mgr., that I couldn't believe that there was no under-hood service light anymore (handy for seeing what went wrong on a dark night) AND there was no oil-concerned light or gauge (temp OR fluid level) on my "Information Panel"!  Yeah, if I'd lost all of my oil due to some catastrophic failure my "Check Engine" light would go on and probably another, similar idiot light telling me "You're Screwed", but absolutely NO warning system to let me know a problem might be imminent.

I said, "and with all of the plastic cladding they put all around the engines now, it's almost like they don't want you to even check the oil yourself!"  He looked me straight in the eyes and said, "Bingo! We consider the engine bay to be off-limits to mere car owners. Pass it on." I could tell by the look on his face that he was trying to be facetious, and I was a familiar customer he felt comfortable with, but he was dead serious.

[Jess from VA]

Yep, when I got a code for a cam position sensor, my first question was, what the hell is that?   Followed by, why doesn't the cam know where it is without needing a sensor (isn't it bolted into one position, like all cars for 70 years before)?  Does it run around and hide inside the engine, so a sensor is necessary to find it?  

Thank goodness for Utube.  It told me all I needed to know about swapping out the sensors.  But not why the damn things are needed.  

But believe me, they must be necessary, because you could never do as good an impression of a drunk-on-his-ass-driver, chugging and jerking down the road terribly with a failed cam position sensor.  I was certain I would be pulled over as a drunk long before I gimped my way home, but guess I fit right in with all the weaving texters and cell phone drivers.

EPA at it again.