You can get an over 60 rail card that gets you 30% off train tickets. Costs you about £30 to get it each year, but pays for its self after 2 trips to London.
With the rack system the 50L bag fits over an A frame and can either sit on the pillion seat like above, or if you have a pillion, you put it on the rack at the back
I think the flaw in this oil feed hypothesis is the fact that sometimes we also see a rear CCT fail too, and due to the position on the bottom of cylinder they are sitting in oil all the time…… so lack of lubrication between the spring coils reducing the fretting corrosion might be a contributing fa...