Topcase
My son takes his Nikon D50 with extra lens etc with him in the topcase of his moped. He has done that for the last two years, on- and off-road and it still works fine.
I take my Nikon D70 in a camerabag in the topcase of my BMW but I don't ride off-road with it.
I don't want to have anything on my back when I'm driving so no backpack for me. I value my back and spine more then any camera.
I can't lock my tankbag and I don't want to take my tankbag with me every tankstop so a tankbag is not a good place for an expensive camera for me.
I do have a very small and cheap camera (Kodak Easyshare C653) that I have in a pocket of my bike jacked to capture those moments that you have to make a picture NOW.
If I knew I would do a lot of rough off-road, I wouldn't take the Nikon but use my wifes Minolta Z10. That was mine before I bought the Nikon and it has been in my topcase on various bikes on- and off-road with no problem for thousands of kilometers.
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Jan Krijtenburg
My bikes are a Honda GoldWing GL1200 and a Harley-Davidson FXD Dyna Super Glide
My personal homepage with trip reports: https://www.krijtenburg.nl/
YouTube channel (that I do together with one of my sons): motormobilist.nl
Last edited by jkrijt; 20 May 2007 at 15:00.
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