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Title: What's the easiest way to remove a City Case from a K bike?
Post by: frankenduck on July 27, 2012, 02:02:54 AM: Step 1: Mount the City Case without using the key to lock the catch that holds it to the bottom of it's mounting rack.

Step 2: Ride over some crappy pavement like this at 65 MPH:

(http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j246/smithduck/crappy_pavement.jpg)

Fortunately, I didn't realize it was gone until I pulled over to take a pic 30 miles later so I was spared the emotional trauma of witnessing it's high speed highway death in my mirrors. (I'm sure that it must have been spectacular though.)

When I returned to the crime scene (suicide is against the law) all that remained was this:

(http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j246/smithduck/city_case_remnants.jpg)

By the time I got back somebody had absconded with the other half and it's contents. I'm OK with that though as IMO stuff that flies off of vehicles is fair game. Like this most awesome Phillips screwdriver that I found while scouring the ditch for body parts of said deceased City Case:

(http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j246/smithduck/screwdriver.jpg)

And losing what was in there is inconsequential to me. (Some dirty underwear and a copy of Obama's Kenyan birth certificate that I was planning to mail to Donald Trump.)

I am not overly traumatized by this event as I have three other sets of City Cases and this one was from the most worn set. I've got something like a couple of hundred thousand miles on various K bikes I've owned and this is the first time a case has ever committed suicide on me. I guess I'll be locking them with the key from now on.

Most importantly, I laughed it off and continued with the most excellent ride that I had planned for the rest of the day: Windy Ridge to Mt. St. Helens. Yeehaw!

(http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j246/smithduck/k75f_msh.jpg)
Title: Re: What's the easiest way to remove a City Case from a K bike?
Post by: TimTyler on July 27, 2012, 02:13:39 AM: Why were you transporting dirty underwear and Obama's birth records to a relatively inactive volcano?
Title: Re: What's the easiest way to remove a City Case from a K bike?
Post by: frankenduck on July 27, 2012, 02:18:36 AM: Quote from: TimTyler on July 27, 2012, 02:13:39 AM
Why were you transporting dirty underwear and Obama's birth records to a relatively inactive volcano?

Its the only way to get the bike perfectly balanced.
Title: Re: What's the easiest way to remove a City Case from a K bike?
Post by: TimTyler on July 27, 2012, 02:21:30 AM: I guess I really don't want to know what was in the other case...
Title: Re: What's the easiest way to remove a City Case from a K bike?
Post by: frankenduck on July 27, 2012, 02:34:22 AM: Quote from: TimTyler on July 27, 2012, 02:21:30 AM
I guess I really don't want to know what was in the other case...

My lunch cooler and my helmet shield cleaning stuff - the important stuff.
Title: Re: What's the easiest way to remove a City Case from a K bike?
Post by: Photog on July 27, 2012, 07:51:28 AM: Sounds a little like the method I found for removing the right side fog light from a Saab 9-5.

Hit it really hard with a raccoon, comes right off.
Title: Re: What's the easiest way to remove a City Case from a K bike?
Post by: argent brick on July 27, 2012, 04:08:07 PM: So does this mean that you will have one city case for sale?

I need one.
Title: Re: What's the easiest way to remove a City Case from a K bike?
Post by: frankenduck on July 27, 2012, 04:20:14 PM: Quote from: argent brick on July 27, 2012, 04:08:07 PM
So does this mean that you will have one city case for sale?

I need one.

No, it means I'll be looking for another left one.

I did stop on the way home to salvage the roundel from it..
Title: Re: What's the easiest way to remove a City Case from a K bike?
Post by: argent brick on July 27, 2012, 07:56:35 PM: Bummer. I had to try. Need right, got left.
I don't blame you for grabbing the roundel. Those things are expensive!
Title: Re: What's the easiest way to remove a City Case from a K bike?
Post by: mystic red on July 27, 2012, 09:55:19 PM: That's some funny ch!t right there, duck. At least there wasn't a CR stash in there. :yow
Title: Re: What's the easiest way to remove a City Case from a K bike?
Post by: TaosBrick on July 28, 2012, 01:45:33 PM: Hmm... Something I always figgered was de rigueur, what with my "driveway". I will be double-checking from now on.
Title: Re: What's the easiest way to remove a City Case from a K bike?
Post by: mystic red on July 28, 2012, 04:57:05 PM: I had one come open at speed once before I started religiously locking them. It was a horrible experience.
Title: Re: What's the easiest way to remove a City Case from a K bike?
Post by: steved on August 04, 2012, 03:27:05 PM: Shoot!,Duck.....you got some lovely
country to sample out there.....and the
ocean too...I'm envious here in Ohio
Title: Re: What's the easiest way to remove a City Case from a K bike?
Post by: Opus on August 04, 2012, 07:11:11 PM: I tried C4 but the Police, FBI & Homeland Security made me promise not to do it again.
It did made a nice boom, but replacing the rear half of the bike was a pain....
:hehehe
Title: Re: What's the easiest way to remove a City Case from a K bike?
Post by: racinrich on September 06, 2012, 09:43:21 PM: were you on I-70 40 miles west of denver? jimco at klrworld found one
Title: Re: What's the easiest way to remove a City Case from a K bike?
Post by: frankenduck on September 08, 2012, 07:31:58 AM: No. Washington. But I did lose a glove on I-70 about 8 years ago.
Title: Re: What's the easiest way to remove a City Case from a K bike?
Post by: racinrich on September 08, 2012, 09:19:15 PM: sorry ,he said he sold that on flea bay :lol: :hehehe