The Carolinas’ Full Throttle Magazine
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Hardstreet RYT-THERE Organizational Products Improve Your Riding Experience!
By: Lincoln Infield
“Must Haves” are a wide variety of items that make your riding experience better and recently I was introduced to some products that are now at the top of that list. The Hardstreet RYT-THERE Saddle Bag Shelf Set, Finisher Saddle Bag Liner and RYT-THERE Tour Pack Organizer, and my advice on these products is; GET ‘EM! A while back I had a good friend give me the ol’ “Hey you gotta see this” and he pointed out his newly installed Hardstreet RYT-THERE Saddle Bag Shelf Set and Finisher Saddle Bag Liner. Honestly, I was not ready to be impressed like I was. Hardstreet founders, Brothers Glen (Brand Manager) and Ken Laivins (Design Director), came from a motorcycle plastics background that had them working closely with a lot of the industry’s top brands including KTM, Honda and Yamaha, making motocross bike body panels, fenders, shrouds. Basically, anything that was made out of plastic and bolted on to a motorcycle. “People didn’t realize that yes we we’re motocross guys, but ever since the very beginning we otorcycle
Ken & Glen Laivins With Product Developer Jerrod Huffman displaing the RYT-THERE Tour Pack Organizer always had V-Twins” Glen said. So, When they got a chance to do something with the V-Twins, around 2006, they started a company call Hardstreet doing hard luggage for V-Twins. Producing items for Victory motorcycles, OEM products for the Yamaha Star line of motorcycles and products that would fit on the Harley-Davidson motorcycles. “We did farings, chin spoilers, we did hard plastic components on the Yamahas” Ken explained. Recently they moved the company from Ohio to North Carolina and restructured HardStreet with a new plan. Glen said, “We had the idea of making organizers and lining the Tour-Pak and saddlebags, doing something totally different”. They brought in motorcycle enthusiast and executive at FOX Factory, Inc. Mario Galasso (manufacturer of shocks for motorcycles and other on and off road vehicles), and Dave Pooler, who has three decades of accessory product management with Yamaha as business partners. The product that this team came up with is really awesome. Anyone with hard bags on their bike has spent time digging around in them looking for something like their keys, a piece of gum, wallet, or their phone the HardStreet organization accessories fix all of that. These easy to install yourself products take no tools and make no permanent alterations to your saddlebags or Tour-Pak. What it will do is permanently change how accessible your personal effects are in your saddle bag. The Finisher saddle bag liners are adhesive backed and mapped out to perfectly fit in your Harley or Indian Motorcycle hard saddle bags and chop/tour packs. They have easy to follow installation graphics on their packaging and online vid-
