Icon Primer Motorcycle Tank Bag

Black 3502-0025

Posted by Star

Icon Primer Motorcycle Tank Bag Some years ago I found myself sitting in a hotel bar in Elko, Nevada. We had arrived late, we were filthy, and we really smelled. One of us was ugly and covered in offensive tattoos. They gave us the rooms at the farthest end of a long, dark hallway, as far away from the rest of the hotel as possible.

After a shower, I high-tailed it down to the bar for a long-awaited whiskey and soda, and found myself sitting at the bar with a girl on one side and a boy on the other. The girl was very sweet and chatty (it turns out she lived and "worked" there in the hotel) until I explained that I wasn't lonely and didn't have any money. So she wandered off and that's when I realized that the young guy on the other side of me was not just looking very depressed -- he was actually wiping away the occasional tear, between pulls on his beer. He had a full-face helmet on the bar next to him. I asked him if he was ok.

Turns out he was a Beemer boy from Jersey and was riding to Oregon. He was keeping a diary of his trip and had been writing in it every evening. And that day, somewhere in Vegas, someone lifted his tank bag. It wasn't the loss of the maps, various incidentals, or a little extra cash that caused the tearful reaction -- it was the diary.

The Icon Primer Motorcycle Tank Bag is well-designed with internal divider pockets, a magnetic tank mount, and a rubber mesh-skin backing for no-slip grip. It also has removable mesh backpack straps for easy and fast removal -- a couple of clips, and it's a backpack instead of your tank bag. And you need never find yourself weeping in your beer in a shabby hotel/brothel in Elko. At $50, it's a steal.