Thursday, June 18, 2009
Bags on the back
My new luggage system seem to work fine. The soft pannier support rails were finished eventually after a lot of hard, slow, work. As the bends are quite critical, and in 2 planes, there was a lot of measuring up and testing on scrap tube. I didn't need to remake the side sections at all which is a miracle.
You can't see them on the loaded picture but it shows the end result. It also shows that I can't pack lightly, even for a short camping trip.
This rather nasty, shaky picture gives an impression of the design. The rails run from the front rack support point to the pillion peg mount. The position was set with the usual cardboard template to be within the border of the bag and parallel to the body work; simply to give a neat appearance.
The exhaust side needed the upper bracket to be cut out around the exhaust mount. It's rather slight in places but should survive normal use. In view of the time spent making them it would have been cheaper to buy from Touratech, except of course they don't make things for Morini machines!
My new luggage system seem to work fine. The soft pannier support rails were finished eventually after a lot of hard, slow, work. As the bends are quite critical, and in 2 planes, there was a lot of measuring up and testing on scrap tube. I didn't need to remake the side sections at all which is a miracle.
You can't see them on the loaded picture but it shows the end result. It also shows that I can't pack lightly, even for a short camping trip.
This rather nasty, shaky picture gives an impression of the design. The rails run from the front rack support point to the pillion peg mount. The position was set with the usual cardboard template to be within the border of the bag and parallel to the body work; simply to give a neat appearance.
The exhaust side needed the upper bracket to be cut out around the exhaust mount. It's rather slight in places but should survive normal use. In view of the time spent making them it would have been cheaper to buy from Touratech, except of course they don't make things for Morini machines!
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