Top of the Box
WHY WOULD YOU HAVE A TOP BOX? I know I am riding a Honda but it’s not a C90, it’s not 1972 and I don’t work for Papa John’s Pizza corporation. ‘Just use a rucksack,’ was my reasoning whenever I saw a bike weighed down with one. I will admit it now, I WAS WRONG. Now, if there’s even the slightest reason to go on a mission to the shops the CB650F is fired up and as my shopping trolley fills I gamble on how much I can get in the Honda’s boot without having to stuff vegetables down my trousers in an overflow calamity. As long as frozen Christmas turkey isn’t on the list it always surprises me how much you can stuff in. At £810 including mounting brackets this 35-litre Honda accessory isn’t cheap, but it comes with a tumbler kit that lets you match your bike’s ignition key to the top box, so no multiple keys. In three months use it’s never leaked, and I’ve made the can-can dance technique required to get on the bike part of my daily fitness routine. Fitting a top box doesn’t mean you’ve pulled the rip cord on coolness, just twist the lockable catch and you can remove it.