Nomadic Rack

Thank you - I am thinking of painting the inside of the grove red or white....or maybe I should leave the aluminum ? Thoughts?

The mount for the TE250 is welded tubular steel.

Anyone try to install the Nomadic rack onto a 2013 TE449/511. Big issues ? Smooth install ?

Nice Machining!

Would not fit my 2012 without a lot of mods to the mounting design.

It was a bit of a hassle to get it to install properly; have to slightly bend it to the proper angle and then I actually drilled some additional holes for my rotopax gas can, because once it is installed it is too difficult to remove the rotopax mounting piece in the position the rack has them. It held up wonderfully after 5 days worth of pounding on extreme terrain with ~40lbs of stuff loaded in my wolfman tail bag. See images below Not to mention 1600 miles round trip at 65-80 mph loaded on the back of a trailer attached to the bike. Not one slip or necessary adjustment.


Just so you get a feel for the angle...very steep....and I put over 600 miles on the TE449 at altitudes from 10,000-13,000

Is that Black Bear Pass?

yes sir it is.....

Headed there in 10 days for 6 days of riding!!

I recommend Black Bear Pass and coming back up Imogene. I did notice a significant power loss above 9k feet; but there was no problem climbing any of the passes or descending severe mountains

Let's the gopro vids

Haha; I have so much footage -- I had three batteries and a higher capacity memory card; I am still sorting through the footage. I did Black Bear Pass, Imogene Pass, Cinnamon Pass, Corkscrew Pass, Hurricane Pass, California Pass, Yankee Boy Basin Pass, and Olphir Pass - plus Devils mountain in Pagosa Springs and Wolf Pass....I will try and sort through it and post something up ....

Justin at Nomadic used my 2013 te511 as a template. Came out very strong and if anything fails it would be the sub frame. The curved bar is the front mount for lack of a mounting point. It's strong enough to pick up the back of the bike. Very pleased with results and Justin is a great guy to work with.

that is an interesting approach to the issue around the lack of support in the front. I however just screwed the screws to the plastic and haven't had an issue as of yet. And believe me I was toting around a turd load of weight during my Colorado trip. Here are some videos of the pounding the nomad rack sustained while up there . Keep in mind my riding skills are not to be critiqued - jk, I welcome all comments sarcastic and otherwise ....I used to remember how to embed the video -- but i have slept since then.

View: http://youtu.be/IsYtYxEonF8



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View: http://youtu.be/GUY7AQKFqlA



View: http://youtu.be/NdTX35R_XFU

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Gotta ask where did you get that heat shield?! Iv been diggin online for one and can't find anything like it