bmccrary
Touring Mod
I guess I should start be explaining the situation.
Over my spring break, March 1-9, my parents on their Nomad and my girlfriend and I on the FZ6 will be traveling to Southern Florida to visit my grandparents.
We will use three of the days to get down there and to spend with them, and the other 4 or 5 coming back home. We plan to head up around the gulf coast and possibly up through the Georgia Mtns.
My parents have the ability to carry alot of luggage on their bike, but they cant carry 7 days of luggage for 4 people, lol. For Christmas I recieved a Silver Streak set by Nelson Rigg.
Nelson Rigg
Nelson Rigg
The tailbag is rather large, and all the luggage racks I have found, none are large enough for that bag.
This is the best one I have found. But it isnt large enough, I don't think.
TwistedThrottle.com : Krauser K-wing Toprack (Yamaha FZ6 Fazer, '04-) - 4004.022.201
I like the way it mounts to the rear pegs, because that lower bar would great for keeping the saddle bags hanging straight.
I am still looking for other options, however they are all very costly. I may have mentioned before, but I am a student at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and I am enrolled in the Motorsports program. We have a few lab employees that help out with the race teams and offer to teach students different things, such as welding and fabwork. One of the head guys is a avid rider, and is willing to help me make my own luggage rack.
Pictures of the Motorsports Lab.
skeeterman426/Engineering - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting
(I like going to school now :rockon:, its just hard sometimes, lol)
We are throwing some ideas around about how to make this and what route to take with it. I started this thread to show what route we do take and how we do it.
I am open to any input here as far as ideas or products to use. Any machinists out there that have any tips to offer would be nice, too. So feel free to post input. I hope this will be able to help some one else do the same thing if they wish.
-bryan
Over my spring break, March 1-9, my parents on their Nomad and my girlfriend and I on the FZ6 will be traveling to Southern Florida to visit my grandparents.
We will use three of the days to get down there and to spend with them, and the other 4 or 5 coming back home. We plan to head up around the gulf coast and possibly up through the Georgia Mtns.
My parents have the ability to carry alot of luggage on their bike, but they cant carry 7 days of luggage for 4 people, lol. For Christmas I recieved a Silver Streak set by Nelson Rigg.
Nelson Rigg
Nelson Rigg
The tailbag is rather large, and all the luggage racks I have found, none are large enough for that bag.
This is the best one I have found. But it isnt large enough, I don't think.
TwistedThrottle.com : Krauser K-wing Toprack (Yamaha FZ6 Fazer, '04-) - 4004.022.201
I like the way it mounts to the rear pegs, because that lower bar would great for keeping the saddle bags hanging straight.
I am still looking for other options, however they are all very costly. I may have mentioned before, but I am a student at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and I am enrolled in the Motorsports program. We have a few lab employees that help out with the race teams and offer to teach students different things, such as welding and fabwork. One of the head guys is a avid rider, and is willing to help me make my own luggage rack.
Pictures of the Motorsports Lab.
skeeterman426/Engineering - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting
(I like going to school now :rockon:, its just hard sometimes, lol)
We are throwing some ideas around about how to make this and what route to take with it. I started this thread to show what route we do take and how we do it.
I am open to any input here as far as ideas or products to use. Any machinists out there that have any tips to offer would be nice, too. So feel free to post input. I hope this will be able to help some one else do the same thing if they wish.
-bryan
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