The Rally Wing-Eric James Edition

I bought a new Ninja 400 abs yesterday to be used as a commuter bike (I commute 170 miles round trip to work), intro track bike (I did 2 track days on my wife’s FJR last year but that bike isn’t really the ideal track bike), and a better around town bike for my wife to ride than her FJR. Picked it up with 0 miles on the odometer and .5 miles on the trip meter...doesn’t get much fresher out of the crate than that!

It’s a fun little bike! The Rally Wing works GREAT for Iron Butt Association rides (my main hobby), long distance rallies, and 2Up touring around the country with my wife...but I didn’t really need a 900lb rally bike with Flir nightvision, gps’, aux fuel, 2.5 sets of huge aux lights, ect for my 1.5 hr one way daily commute.

You don’t realize how different some bikes are until you ride 2200 miles in the last 7 days (1800
2Up and 500 solo commuting) on a fully loaded down touring bike and then wheel a 360lb bike around the driveway. I picked the bike up off the side stand at the dealer and almost had to catch myself to my right side I ripped it upright so quickly haha 😆

Pretty cool seeing all the bikes next to each other. Some similarities and some huge differences.

Now, to break it in and then knock out an IBA BBG on it!

When we aren’t tent camping this is how The Rally Wing does hotels on the road. Simply pull the Giant Loop dry bag and rack off with 2 pins and one lock unlocks the pelican box. Roll the Pelican inside to have everything from the top box easy to pack and access.

We have enough storage capacity to pack for a week+ of tent camping too if we wanted.

It’s a great system for 2Up traveling 🙂

Let’s see some comments with your camping/life on the road luggage systems!

Recently finished my first rally of the year...Rock n Ride’s virtual rally! We had to take a “finishing” photo on our bikes...after 1648 virtual miles I was exhausted haha 😆

Quarantining question of the day: What motorcycle projects are you working on?

This was a photo taken by Dylan Spink during the building of The Rally Wing. I haven’t done anything to it since the TX trip but it’s mostly ready to go 🙂