Home Brewed Luggage Rack

[Steve 0080]

Nice lookin rack...round the back corners to mimic the F6 and you wil have something there !!!

I had approx 20# on my stock rack and it never complained...not sure where the weight rating comes from...it is bolted on top of the frame ?

[bob109]

Still playing around with my Homed Brewed Luggage Rack. Spent a hour at a friends shop and used his engine lathe to turn the support spools for the rack. Had a piece to 7/8" aluminum round stock which I drilled and parted to size. The offset in height between the front and rear backrest mounting holes is 5/8". Made two spools 1 1/8" long for the front and two 1 3/4" long for the rear. Those lengths put the rack on a even plane. Im going to paint the spools satin black which will closely match the backrest bracket.

A few pics

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[bob109]

Finally finished my rack. Took some time getting the proper material but the wait was worth it. The original was made from a cutting board and had silver fleck and was smaller than I wanted. The new material is solid black and the blank was 12" x 18" which allowed for a larger rack. The material is commercial 7/16" black vinyl which is both durable and weather resistant. Used my hand saw, drill press with 3/4" and 1" spades bits to shape and drill the material. A simple task IMHO.

Some pics of the original and new rack

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[ddoug]

Bob - good looking platform. I did a similar board ; but mounted it on top of the small factory rack. By the way , I stood on the factory rack with all my 190 lbs. ;it didn't even try to break. I had to know before we left on our road trip. We strapped at least 30 lbs. on it for 3976 miles.

[jm21ddd15]

Nice lookin rack...round the back corners to mimic the F6 and you wil have something there !!!

I had approx 20# on my stock rack and it never complained...not sure where the weight rating comes from...it is bolted on top of the frame ?

Same here. I have had well over 20 lbs on the rack, and road thousands of miles like that, with no problems. If we listened to all of Mother Hondas recommendations, we would not have any darkside riders, or trailer hitches etc.