Givi Trekker cases and Quicklock rack
As the standard Shitshad boxes proved themselves a real nuisance during or trip to Aragon, i gave them back (alas the refund *after* such a trip was less then expected 
But after speaking to the designer of the Givi Trekker, and knowing he put such a lot of thinking and tinkering into the design, it was no hard choice what would replace the Nuisanceboxes.
So i got myself a brand new bag (or two) O0
In my not so humble opinion Yamaha should dump the Shad's they will only generate warrenty claims with the overcomplicated locking riffraff, my trusty old mechanic at Termaat gave me a 5 minute course in how to open and release, and then put back without bracking te key. That being neccesary alone should have been enough hint to Yamaha to dump those overengineerd nuisances...
So please do all the other customers a favor and dump Shad in favor of Givi, the Design of the Trekkers is way more fitting ith the ice round corners, the "small" box takes almost two times the travelrubble compared to the left "Yamaha" lunchbox.
Okay enough words, let the pictures speak for themselves
Open the box with your key, o wait thats another story al togehter, later more about that.
Look now, a complete rack is hidden in them including a special toll that can be stored in the very usefull suspenders
Okay, you need to fit the two quickrelase recaptors and the footrest plate,but that is also brilliant desing, you can just loosen the handrail bolts a little slip the receptors over and tiighten up again (i have the silly plastic rails removed, never understood why they put such sillyness on any bike.
Three turns and the side gets a sturdy rack, three flips on the other side,and you can put the brace between them two carriers, to make it a rocksolid rack, which only flexes under severe stress, i could sit on the box before it gave a little, without the brace there is some fex coutesy of the quicklocks,soGivi should think about a second strut, toride with only one siderack for the commuters carrying only one box to ease the filtering...
Slipthe case on the lower pegs,andalittlepush withsomemusic for the kneeplays... (who remembers that great record)
... CLICK !
That's real KISS design par excelence,no hassle with first turning a key, pulling a latch at one side wait till rocker pops out the other side turn the rocker, hang the boxon its rack ,turn de rocker, push it back, the push the latch at the other side, turn the lock back, swear a little because the lid popsopen, turn key again, tobe ableto close the lid, and wath out you dont turn the key a wee bit to far again orthe latch pops out agian...
CLICK! , versus; 2 paged manual with lots of caution this caution that palaver...
But to open or close the lid, the key is needed,i first was a bit dissapointed, the lid couldnot be closed keyless also, until i remebered a nice day in Augustm we were on the virge of going out to eat because of my birthday hen i heard my father holler, and every campinggast looked what happened, why my dad was so angry...
My mother had put all the needed jackets etc in the car and closed the door...
Take a guess where the key to open the car again was stuck,in the ignition lock :-(
Okay back to the Trekkers, what do they hold in al their "bulkyness" ?
You have to open the complete lid to put them in, but like this its more telling there really fit two helmets in the 45 trekker, but beware, the 45 is widening the bike a "little "
Here a shot to demonstrate the brilliant design, when in need the medicine is almost direct at hand, without anything else leaving the case, when the need is high and the movemants somewhat disorientated... (oh no that happens after medicine intake,oh well)
I hopethis was enough about the Trekkers, tosatisfy the need for info, i'm going to take my medicine
The story about how SuperMoose got around opening the Trekkers with the inition key will follow shortly, bey for now...
