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Ya that's brown rice falling out. These bags were supposedly designed for sport bikes with upright facing exhausts and apparently are specially lined to be heat resistant and able to sit in front of the exhaust.

Came home from a grocery run to find that my frozen salmon fillets were fully thawed, my sweet potatoes transformed into baked potatoes, my cinnamon sticks became charcoal, and my rice bag melted 🙃

I've done groceries maybe a dozen times with these bags without issue but I guess the bag got a little too close to the exhaust. I spent all day today scraping dried molten plastic off my exhaust pipes and trying to pull rice out of my exhaust baffles (only got 2 grains out 😣).

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[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago

It's a stock Honda 500cc so I wouldn't consider it super special

[-] poleslav@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

I have an NX500 myself, to be honest I went with some hard mounts that replace the passenger grab bars and hard boxes from Ali express, even with tarrifs (I’m in the US) the total was sub $500 for two boxes and a rack. Super worth it, I put it through hell and high water and they’re great. Definitely something I’d recommend.

[-] dalekirkwood@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

Done the things in your box get quite hot here on the right hand side?

[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Ayy the adventure version of my bike! Love the white and black combo. Those cases look awesome. Something on rails like yours is what I'll have to get if I want saddle bags. I might just look into a tail bag in the interim. Does the bottom of the right box ever get warm?

[-] poleslav@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I wanna wrap it in something like baby blue personally lol. And yeah, I’d recommend the cheap ones on Aliexpress personally, it’s like a quarter of anything else price wise. It doesn’t line up perfectly but I’m a function over form person lol. And I’m sure it does but I’ll have to check next long ride, but I’ve never had issues with anything melting or anything getting too warm

[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

Baby blue would look cool too! My bikes boring and matte black. Are the mounts from AliExpress too?

[-] poleslav@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Matte black still looks great in my opinion!

And Yep! Hopefully links are allowed but these are what I got

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256809352147110.html

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256809352650569.html

Seeing one of the reviews did remind me you’ll need someone with a 3d printer. The plastic spacer bit the bracket came with may as well have been made from tissue paper, but after printing new spacers they’ve been rock solid for me.

[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

Oh excellent! I have a nice 3D printer so not a problem here. Thanks for the links and info!

[-] poleslav@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

For sure! Keep the rubber side down amigo. The Honda 500s are phenomenal bikes, definitely sucks about the melted bag though lol.

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