My take on a rear rack / side brackets

I thought I'd share some photos of the rear rack and saddlebag brackets I welded-up. The main hoops were bought from BRMoto...thanks Berg!

I tried to pick-up the lines of the bike while keeping the saddlebags as low and forward as possible (I don't typically carry a passenger). The rack was also designed with less over-hang to centralize the weight.

It has a rattle-can paint job for now in case I want to weld on a Rotopax mount.

I plan to give it a good test-run this weekend.

Jim

That rear rack/grab rail is a piece of art.

It LOOKS spectacular. And I'm sure the side racks will work great. But the rear rack is just a bit minimalistic for my uses. It sure does look good though.

WOW that looks awesome !
Love your attention on make it flows with the lines of the bike.
People are going to ask you, where did you buy it and who makes it...

I really like it! You did good!!

Awesome!

Can you post some close up pics of the mounts?

I haven't used side racks before so I'm not sure of the answer to this one. Does it matter that the hoops are angled to match the lines of the bike rather than horizontal and level with the ground? Will bags mount and be supported properly?

What did you use as a bender?

Very nice, great job.

It probably depends on the luggage you're mounting and how you're mounting it. If it's hard luggage, then I don't know. Everyone mounts hard panniers vertically. Soft bags which are strapped to the racks at four anchor points in the way that I presume the Wolfman expedition panniers are, shouldn't really care whether they're vertical or not as long as they're strapped up tight. If it's soft luggage that straps across the seat from one side to another and which is using the luggage loops more as just something to rest on to keep the luggage out of the pipes and wheels then it will probably benefit from the racks being slightly angled, because these types of bags naturally want to fall away from the bike, that is, they have a natural tendancy for the bottom of the luggage to angle in towards the wheels, and for the top to fall away from the seat, so if the luggage racks are angled out from the wheel this will help to counter the natural tendancy the bag has to turn over. The ANdy Strapz racks on my bike are intentionally tilted to deal with this.

Thanks. I'll have to check out Wolfman type bags more closely to understand the mounting process. I see what you mean about being tilted out from the wheel but the tilted forward from the tail is what has me puzzled.

I also would like to see some pics of how you did the mounts. Looks like a really great job.

Holy cow! That's gorgeous!

Great job.. NICE.. it looks super solid..