Dale makes a Nice sturdy rack, Flat. Ill try to get pics posted, but here is is info. PM me with email and Ill send pics or look at my avatar.
Dale Gray hondabikepro@gmail.com +1 (360) 490-3716
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Dale makes a Nice sturdy rack, Flat. Ill try to get pics posted, but here is is info. PM me with email and Ill send pics or look at my avatar.
Dale Gray hondabikepro@gmail.com +1 (360) 490-3716
Wish I'd have seen this yesterday! Just ordered the Show Chrome model yesterday with reservations.
Mike
Got one of these from Dale and love it.
Can you put a passenger backrest on with this arrangement too? If so, then it should accomodate a generous T-Bag for my wonderful wife who is unable to grasp the concept of packing light. :icon_rolleyes:
Ive attached a Harley Tourpak, WITH a T-Bags Dekker II Bag on top...
That will surely address any Packing light issues...
Anything more, requires a Uhaul...
Can you post a pic of the tour pak mounted?Quote:
Originally Posted by mrjava
lol, I just hand the GF a backpack and tell her this is all she gets. She's reasonable that way...It's all the stuff she finds along the way that becomes the issue :icon_wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Flhfxd
You can mount the honda F6B passenger backrest with no issues. I have this one also and can not say enough great things about it. Not supper pretty but it is extremely sturdy and well made!Quote:
Originally Posted by Flhfxd
Thanks, I reached out to Dale, & got photos from him via email.Quote:
Originally Posted by mrjava
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Yes i am still making racks for the f6b, racks are flat and easy to bolt on a trunk. Dale
360 490 3716 hondabikepro@gmal.com
Ordered a rack from Dave yesterday. He sent me some photos. Looks like it will hold about a 100 lb. feral hog. Like I told my last girlfriend............NICE RACK!
Well, you can always return it.Quote:
Originally Posted by speedjunkie
Got Dale's rack yesterday and installed it tonight. I will say that it's the pussies whiskers for sure. I did have some issues, BUT NOT WITH THE RACK. I talked to Dale and he ushered me through an issue with Honda's apparent lack of QC with the sub-rack under the rear shroud that the screw posts are attached to. The back rest attaches with 4 black bolts into those threaded posts and the left and right posts are attached to a bracket that is under the shroud. My crew in Japan must have had a little to much sake at lunch and didn't properly align the right side bracket, thereby making it a pain in my butt to get the rack smoothly bolted down into the posts. The right front and back screw posts were too far to the left by about 3/16" and instead of taking the entire back end of the bike apart, which Dale told me how to do, I opted to enlarge the right holes on his rack so the bolts would have some extra room to the left of the stock rack holes. I took the trusty Dremel and then a round file and enlarged those holes about 3 to 4mm and on she went like custom made Leddy boots (made in Ft.Worth and a 12 month wait). Dale mentioned that a number of his customers have not had a problem. Murphy's Law does come into play at times. I will say that Dale's rack feels like I could lift the bike off the ground from the rack. It is CNC machined and the powder coating is superb. Not a blem or flaw anywhere on the rack...top or bottom. I have no doubt it could hold 4 cases of beer and 3 briskets in a cooler for a nice weekend trip to Big Bend. Hat's off to Dale, his awesome customer service, and a gem of a rack thrown in for good measure. ...............11 out of 10 stars from me......:yes:
Got some pics of Dales rack installed. I highly recommend this one. Rock solid and most likely tour-pack ready.
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I think that rack looks very versatile. Many tie down points. But aesthetically it is very ugly; due to the myriad arrangement of holes and slots. I think that a nice cover stretched over it would improve the look; when and if it's not being actively used.
You're probably right about the looks. It's off when not used and not seen when covered up. With the holes in the rack, I might try cooking some vertical jalapeno's stuffed with cream cheese and wrapped with bacon on the Weber. This rack has some practical uses, IMO. I looked and looked for the MP3 ? rack that taxfree4 has but to no avail and didn't want the chrome bling out back so I went with Dale's.
What is the price on this?
Rack was $175 + shipping from Olympia, WA.......$18 comes to mind.
That is a large piece of real estate there, you could pretty much haul the Taj Mahal AND a 12-pack on that one.
It would be perfect for an extended camping trip, room for the tent, sleeping back, camping gear, etc.
May have to re-think the hex-head bolts, a black acorn nut might be a bit more subtle??
The size of that reminds me of the guy from Australia who used a piece of CDX plywood and painted it black, knots and all.
Don't even remember his name now, but he was hilarious.
Anyway, I'm going to grab one, much more functional the the OEM size.
The bolts and spacers come with the rack. The rear bolts are about 3 inches long and the front ones about 2.5 inches. The spacers fit into the back rest holes (if you have one). Acorn tops would be great if you can find some the correct length and in 8mm standard pitch. I'll probably get some hex head black bolts. Dale sends the ones shown in the pics. As explained earlier, do a test fit to make sure the factory brackets under the shroud are in alignment. Mine were not, so instead of taking the shroud off the back to realign the internal brackets, I chose to enlarge both right holes in the rack about 3-4mm, then it fit fine. If you look at the back rest holes on the right side, those are oval from Honda, where the left holes are round. Now I know why they are oval. ..........Just realized that acorn nuts won't work, as the bolts go down through the rack, the spacers, and tighten into the stock threaded receivers. Not seeing how acorns would work on top, nothing for them to screw onto up top.
I would spray the bolts flat black too. That thing is large and takes away from the look of the bike, but if you use it often, who cares?
I'm all about the BBQ potential there.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Walcrow
Gawd I love this forum!
Cheers,
Steve
Acorn nuts would work if you use all thread rod the correct length. Better would be to use button head bolts, much nicer sloped fit from the edges and tightened with an Allen wrench. Need to be black making them harder to find but you can paint em. I paint small areas with a black permeate marker sometimes. Easy to touch up when needed. However the color does not matter if you remove it when not in use as I would.
I think the rack just might work...................
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Originally Posted by willtill
I have to agree. While it may have some utility.....it looks as though some shade tree hack cobbled it together from the crap laying around out back of his garage.
.....sT
Makes me wish Honda had put the antenna a little further back so we could go real wide with the rack.Quote:
Originally Posted by Walcrow
You can remove (just unscrew) the antenna, hook a wire from it to the metal rack, and it works pretty darn well.Quote:
Originally Posted by terryboyle
I have an aluminum plate at the bottom of my trunk, and wired the antenna to it. Now, I just have a spring attached to the antenna that the trunk presses against when installed.
Here's a pic (oops) ...
What? Still no pics?!! What the C#@P!!Quote:
Originally Posted by 98valk
Here's the Dale rack with the Adventure Moto rack installed on it so I can add a GIVI VN 47 when the GF hits the back seat and brings along 30 lbs of "necessary" items.
http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/c...ps7tpvdx7b.jpg
Presently not having any issues with Photobucket posting the IMG coded pic.
Here's the old May photo of the Dale rack. PB is doing something weird with old images and I can't copy some of them. This is nuts to say the least.............
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