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seviersavage Senior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 364 Smoky Mountains Tennessee Gender:	homemade luggage rack with a twist 11/24/08 at 19:34:38 I couldn't find a rack that was large enough for the savage so I came up with this one. It is 8x11 and the uprights go into the side rails where the sissy bar was. And here is the twist, it extends to 8x17, and I also relocated my helment lock since my saddlebags made it useless where it was. Seviersavage
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Paladin. Serious Thumper Offline Hamster Posts: 4929 Sunny Southern California Gender:	Re: homemade luggage rack with a twist Reply #1 - 11/24/08 at 19:50:54 Sweet. I wouldn't sell it for less than $200. $300 if you're not a member of this Forum.
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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 28642 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: homemade luggage rack with a twist Reply #2 - 11/24/08 at 20:48:58 Helmet lock...nice touch...
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firetruckredbike Full Member Alliance Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 185	Re: homemade luggage rack with a twist Reply #3 - 11/25/08 at 03:49:48 VERY nice! Are you going to make more (hint)? Amy
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Reply #4 - 11/25/08 at 09:13:10

It would be easy enough to weld up a rack that clamped to the sissy bar but I wanted to lose mine so having the legs slide into the side rails seemed a reasonable option. But making it extend meant I had to create the flat tubing as sides. Thats a headache to weld up.

If I had to subsist on dollars from my fabrication skills I'd starve.
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odvelasc Ex Member	Re: homemade luggage rack with a twist Reply #5 - 11/25/08 at 18:12:17 so is the sissybar is gone, where does the barrel bag hang from?
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seviersavage Senior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 364 Smoky Mountains Tennessee Gender:	Re: homemade luggage rack with a twist Reply #6 - 11/25/08 at 18:19:50 Yep, Sissy bar is gone. Barrel bag? Luggage that straps to the sissy bar? Um don't know about that but I can carry a suitcase now Seviersavage
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Jay Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1445 Fort Worth, Texas Gender:	Re: homemade luggage rack with a twist Reply #7 - 11/26/08 at 01:55:16 Looks great! Can you post a pic of it on the bike?
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Kevininsc YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 13	Re: homemade luggage rack with a twist Reply #8 - 11/26/08 at 13:30:51 That looks really ingenious!! I would like to see pics of it on the bike!!, if you have any.
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seviersavage Senior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 364 Smoky Mountains Tennessee Gender:	Re: homemade luggage rack with a twist Reply #9 - 11/26/08 at 15:19:45 O.K. so I just did install it. My thoughts are taking the fender side rails off would have been easier. But I did get it on. I covered the forward part with a foam insulation. I guess cause I think it looks better. And I'm sure I can come up with a real reason if I have to.
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Reply #10 - 11/26/08 at 16:28:08

Have you estimated the weight it can handle fully extended? Seems like you might need an angled brace from the upright to the middle of the loading surface to stiffen it if you did try to put a large piece of luggage or a milk crate on the back. Certainly is a neat idea to have the extendable section. And I have the same issue with my helmet lock being under my OEM bags and being useless when I have both bags on.

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seviersavage Senior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 364 Smoky Mountains Tennessee Gender:	Re: homemade luggage rack with a twist Reply #11 - 11/26/08 at 17:01:33 I wouldn't carry any real weight on it. But when it's collapsed I believe you could sit on it. I end up carrying flat boxes that don't weigh much so large footprint was more benificial to me. Besides too much weight way back there and I'd be poppin wheelies everywhere Seviersavage
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EssForty Senior Member Offline Sunshine, Surf & Suzuki Posts: 382 Melbourne, FL Gender:	Re: homemade luggage rack with a twist Reply #12 - 11/26/08 at 17:57:08 Ha Ha. That thought occurred to me as well. A couple sacks of potatoes and you'd have a wheelie machine
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Paladin. Serious Thumper Offline Hamster Posts: 4929 Sunny Southern California Gender:	Re: homemade luggage rack with a twist Reply #13 - 11/26/08 at 19:11:29 seviersavage wrote on 11/26/08 at 17:01:33: ...Besides too much weight way back there and I'd be poppin wheelies everywhere ... Isn't that what the Wheelie Rollers are for? (Not to mention you'ld have sport bike riders trying to figure out how to do the same to their bikes.)
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Re: homemade luggage rack with a twist
Reply #14 - 11/26/08 at 21:28:10

This puppy looks great. My only thoughts are that when you put something on there you're covering your back lights. At night not so bad, but in the day time the brake light becomes invisible. When I put the extra tour tank on the back of my 650 behind the sissy bar I got nervous enough to install a big oval LED tail/brake light up on the back of the tank. Those cell phoners don't see us from the front or sides so why make it easy for them to miss us from the back as well.

A side point to think about. How cool would it be to replace the back pad with one of those? Then extend it back out a ways when you need the extra carrying room. Build a removable backrest onto the front of it and a removable seat pad for it if you want to carry a passenger. Just a couple of thoughts for when you go into production.

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