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All About Touratech Australia, An Interview With Tony Kirby.

Wanted to know the most popular Touratech Product? Andy grills Tony Kirby from Touratech Australia to get the lowdown on what’s happening locally with Touratech.

Touratech is a German company who make over 3,000 product lines and generally their stuff is spot on A grade. Obviously an Australian distributor can’t have everything on the shelf but you’ll find out how much they do keep here. And these days it’s only about a three week wait to get stuff out of Germany if required.

Gotta tell you I’m a bit of a regular Touratech customer with recent purchases waiting to be fitted and reviewed. New stuff includes 35mm handlebar risers, and two GPS mounts. These will be given a workout on the upcoming Grand Prix trip next week.

Now, you should know something, I pay for all this stuff so there’s no sweetheart reviews from me. If it’s good I’ll tell you and if it’s not you’ll know too.

You’ll hear what bikes they mainly cater for, how to get a catalogue sent to your door and how long things take to ship. If your wondering what their most popular items are? You’ll find out in this podcast.

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Making Use Of Space On A Motorbike.

I am becoming a hoarder, or more to the point a carrier. I’m discovering all these cool motorcycle luggage storage solutions and I’m just carrying more and more. But you know what? It doesn’t seem to matter because they are pretty well hidden and it doesn’t affect the bikes performance in any way. So if it’s not hurting anyone or thing it must be OK?

This is R1200GS Specific. Touratech and Wunderlich both have this cool little bag. Looking at the catalogues they look EXACTLY the same? There is quite a bit of space under the factory rear rack on the R1200GS.

In the Touratech catalogue they say this little bag is ideal for carrying a spare pair of gloves or some additional camping gear. Definitely not your tent poles! I use it to carry my visor cleaner can of Plexus and a rag I always use and is becoming pretty Plexus soaked (which is good). You’ll also find a small bottle of Antifog (which doesn’t seem to work) I also carry the piece of paper which has the wheel removal instructions and torque values for the bolts. Why? It seemed as good a place as any and I’ll never remember those figures.

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You can actually store quite a bit of stuff and people always seem to notice the bag and comment how cool it is. Why? I guess it is a cool place to utilise and anyway, people can be weird can’t they?

Pictures of the Under Rack Bag are here. Touratech model number is 055-155, Australian price at time of blog is $42.44

I reckon it’s great and give it “The DUCKS GUTS” rating

C’mon! why not review your Motorcycle, Motorbike accessory, your favourite ride or one recently ridden? Simply
send an email to andy@motorcyclemania.com.au with your best contact phone number and a brief outline of the review you’d like to do and I’ll phone you. We’ll set up a time to talk, I’ll interview you and record the phone call (unless you live close by, then I’ll visit). Then publish it on this site.
EASY, and you’ll be famous!

Or simply hit the comment link at the bottom of this podcast! And say something!

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