Pacsafe Explorer

PacSate Explorer

CW EVALUATION

Stainless-steel stowage

ERE'S THE DILEMMA: You'vE RIDDEN your motorcycle to, say, the races, found a parking spot and dismount ed. What to do with your gear? You

could continue to wear it, haul it around in a back pack, or cram it in a top trunk or sad diebags-if your bike is so equipped and the bags aren't already jampacked with other items.

Or you could stuff it in a PacSafe Explorer Xtra Large and lock the en tire bundle to your bike.

The patented Explorer is manufac tured from high-tensile stainless-steel and weighs less than 2 pounds. Gear goes in through a central opening, which is then closed off by pulling the free end of a draw wire through loops in the opening. The wire is then run around a frame rail or passed through a wheel, and one of the plastic "beads" spaced along the wire is in serted into the "locking device." A keyed padlock prevents the wire from passing back through the device. When not in use, the Explorer folds up and slips into a supplied 4x7-inch cordura-nylon storage sleeve.

Here's the rub: A pair of wire-cutters will reduce the Explorer to a pile of trash-bag twist-ties in seconds. Adios Arai, Aerostich and Alpinestars.

Yes, the PacSafe Explorer enables you to conveniently tether your be longings to your bike in a single, duf fel-size lump. But there's no guarantee they'll be there when you return.

Chase Harper

$75