Not camping, but I am planning on carrying a tent and sleeping bag just in case. Have been pondering on how to carry my luggage and I hit on what might be the solution. A bracket that through-bolts onto a standard airline carry on size upright rolling suitcase:
(Click on either image for movie.)
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You can see why I wanted the CatsEye taillight under the fender lip to replace that clunky thing on top. The case in the video is an old 18" x 13" x 10" Laptop case.
The making of the bracket was quite easy. My high tech
design plans:
As you can see, just a 15" piece of 3/4" x 1/8" flat weldable steel bent over the sissy bar. On the backside, where the luggage will mount, I used bars out of a List-15 cabinet that already had 10-24 threaded holes on one inch centers ('cept for the last hole being 1.5" oc.) If you can't find a List-15 cabinet, the original plan was for 3/4" x 1/8" flat steel. The shorter front bars are 3/4" x 1/8" flat steel cut to fit precisely (actually since the sides taper you can slide up/down a bit to make it precise)
The sissybar is 5/8" square, but with a slight bulge on the top curve. The back bars are welded to the outside of the side piece, the front brackets are inset about a 16th of an inch for a snug fit while still making it over the bulge.
Options to consider: securing bracket/luggage to sissybar (I think I may have lost the first prototype, sans luggage, on a speed bump.) I'll be using a bungee from the case handle down, but a locking bolt or clip through a front bar would work.
The inside bars and the bracket sandwich the two handle tubes of the rolling luggage. Do not over-tighted to the point of crushing the tubes and making the handle unusable (the laptop case handle is now sticking, but since it has a broken zipper and tore interior, who cares!)