Making your own pannier frame?

[babysteps]

Sorry to Hijack your thread Machiavelli, but I could use some rails making also. Mainly to keep soft bags of the exhaust. Pls PM me if you can help out

[Machiavelli]

Sorry to Hijack your thread Machiavelli, but I could use some rails making also. Mainly to keep soft bags of the exhaust. Pls PM me if you can help out

it's all good, i imagine there is more than enough people with love to share among those of us who need a hand

[The Lone Rider]

Sorry to Hijack your thread Machiavelli, but I could use some rails making also. Mainly to keep soft bags of the exhaust. Pls PM me if you can help out

Trick is to get bags that have enough clearance that they won't have an issue with pipes. I have a set of bags I'm selling, that have a small hole burnt into them (easy as to put a repair over the hole though). There was clearance, but not enough and the V4 pipes burn something mighty. I've now got some leather bags, it all seems good.

The frames I believe are mainly for two things depending on what you get them for - keeping the bags from catching on other things such as the wheel and suspension, and for keeping the bags from "floating" when you are riding (this is solved though by keeping stuff in the bags and the bags being balanced properly).

My new leather ones cost piss all nothing, and I just throw them over and forget about it.


Rails to keep them off the wheels are pretty easy to make - bit of metal rod, angle tool, drill, welder, spray paint (unless you want it chromed?), rubber washers, and extended screws, angle grinder and a file.

Just make a U shape bracket on each side, to the size and shape you want, and mount it to the wire covers/frame covers that run down a lot of cruisers rear fender.

Would be a good garage project

[popelli]

my advice hard luggae is always better than soft luggage

second hand hard [panniers always turn up at swap meets, flea bay and other auction sites

modifing existing hard luggage mounting brackets to fit your bike is relatively easy 1" x 1/4 steel is easy to bend drill and strong enough to make backets to fit hard luggage to your bike.

I was given a set of ex police XS650 yamaha panniers, it took a couple of hours to knock up the brackets to make these bolt straight onto an A65 bsa, the panniers are still on the bike 18 years later

more recently I needed a top box for my XLCR, nobody makes what I needed so I made my own qd arrangement up