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?
2015 matte silver F6B
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?
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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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