Big luggage build

[derf]

Does anyone know of any pictures of how sjaak lucassen made the luggage for his r1? Been looking like hell and all I can find are crappy pictures.

[Trip]

advrider.com

I have seen some threads about making luggage out of sheet metal if you want to try to make your own. It doesn't look too tough if you can fabricate metal pretty easily. Too bad I am not mechanically inclined like that.

[derf]

Yeh i searched there too, and all I saw was folks talking about offroading a sport bike.

Long story short. Someone gave me a 4x8 piece of sheet steel today. I kinda drew up the dimensions I would build it, But I'm looking at the design, and trying to figure out if I would want one big bag, or 2 saddle bags and a tail bag. I was thinking of making it a 1 piece bag and having it sit on the subframe where my seat sits, and also clip in by the passenger pegs. I would want something that is a snap to take off without tools, but is fairly stable. My first thought was to build a frame with the angle iron I have laying around, but the more I thought about it, I dont want to go too heavy. I was thinking more along the lines of building the lower 1/2 the box out of angle, then sheeting the rest.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by derf

Yeh i searched there too, and all I saw was folks talking about offroading a sport bike

are you looking for that dude's bike? Just look for a pure luggage build. You can just modify the mounting system for your bike.

[derf]

Originally Posted by Trip

are you looking for that dude's bike? Just look for a pure luggage build. You can just modify the mounting system for your bike.

I'm not seing anything on ADV under pure luggage build

[Trip]

Originally Posted by derf

I'm not seing anything on ADV under pure luggage build

yeah good luck, there is too much shit on that forum to search for anything.

[Trip]

Here is a really cheap way

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17843

Here is a better set.

http://sites.google.com/site/rtwxtz660/alluboxes

[derf]

Yeh i was thinking more along the lines of the 2nd one.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by derf

Yeh i was thinking more along the lines of the 2nd one.

You may want to check around horizons unlimited some more. They are good about this type of shit too.

This is where I got the second one from:

http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tripplan/bike/panniers

[Mr Lefty]

the panniers look like happy trails panniers...
http://www.happy-trail.com/