Hey all, hope everyone had a good Christmas and I hope we all have an outstanding new year. I received some Nelson Rigg saddle bags for Christmas, really some top quality gear! I mounted them on the bike this afternoon and have a question for those of you that may have these bags. The foam protective liner on the bags come in contact with the exhaust heat shield. Is this going to be a problem on a long trip or does the heat shield even get hot enough to burn the luggage?
The bags will probably get warm, but not burn. That is assuming that the protective liner is the same type that the Cortech bags use. It is worthwhile to use clear shipping tape on the bodywork where the liner makes contact. The bags usually move around a bit, and the accumulated dust will scuff up the paint. I ended up making a rack/bracket to help hold the bags away from the heat shields, and it also helps them hang "straighter" and less floppy; http://vfrworld.com/forums/gear-accessories/19273-soft-luggage-support-rack.html
Lgn, I read your associated link here. I will probably follw suit. I have a huge back pack that I carry things to and from work, but a trip last summer from the coast to the interior of BC was a bit much so I will be getting some soft bags for the steed. When I took my electrical training, which professionally I never used, they called that bending tool for EMT, a hicky. I don't think the other hicky was all that well known when the tool was invented. One hickey is a tool while the other hicky is caused by a tool LOL
Very nice! Looks as tho it was factory made. Good advice about the packing tape, I'll be doing that for sure. I don't know what kind of insulation/padding Cortech uses, the stuff for Nelson Rigg bags is a heavy duty type foam. I may try to fabricate some sort of support later on into the spring. I don't have the tube bending capabilities nor do I have the passenger hand rails, so I may make it out of flat stock that parallel the exhaust. Suggestions are always welcome!
You would probably be able to rent the pipe bender at any tool rental place. It is really a simple hand tool and easy to use. It's no bigger than an axe.
Hi Randy. The link is already there, "Soft Luggage Support Rack" at the bottom of the text. I still have yet to figure out HTML linkage and titles, and how to manipulate them. Actually, I don't care enough about them to bother. They do what they do.... And before I forget, I am pretty certain that I violated a couple of bending rules where the tube has back-to-back bends at right angles where it passes over the grab handles. katat58, the reason I ended up with this "solution" was that I couldn't come up with anything else that seemed adequate to the task, so to speak. I wish I had some ideas to pass along, but all of my previous ones had glaring faults. Keep us posted on what you come up with. One of the greatest things about this forum is the creativeness and ingenuity of the members. And FWIW, part of my consideration was due to all of the junk I bring along. I'm guessing that the saddlebags and large duffel bag that sits on top of them usually weigh in at about thirty to forty pounds.
Good enuff reason. I'm planning a trip to Deal's Gap this summer and hope I can get a weeks worth of stuff into the saddle bags, plus I'll be carrying an Ogio back pack for exta's. I'm retired Air Force and am use to packing a lot into a little. If you turn your underwear inside out you can get another day out of em:biggrin:
Yup.. I read it Dave. And I have to say, looking at the pix, you really did a nice job on that using EMT. Like I said, I think I will follow suit and bend one myself. And though EMT is lightweight,(Aluminum), it should certainly be more than strong enough for this application.
Sorry 'bout that, Randy! I misread what you wrote, and thought you were requesting the link. Frikkin' age and the associated side effects... that's what I'll blame it on, anyway. You know, Randy, I still have "Rev A" in the garage. The only difference is that it is a bit shorter from the mounting bolts to the first bends, and there is no slight bend right after the mounting bolts, so it doesn't parallel the mufflers quite as much. I'd be happy to send it to you, if you want it, provided that the USA to Canada paperwork isn't a complete pain. I could probably even manage to visit the hardware store where they had the shouldered rubber bushings and pick some up. By the way, the US version of EMT is zinc-plated steel, not aluminum. I feel cheated, somehow... aluminum would be much easier to deal with on something like this. As far as that goes, if Randy doesn't want it and somebody else has any use for it, let me know. Randy has right of first refusal, however. The only "gotchas" that there is to it, that I am aware of, is you do need the grab handles so it has something to rest on, and it does need to be held in place when the bags aren't on so it doesn't bounce up and down (I use some heavy duty rubber band sorta things).
Thanks for the offer Dave but I will leave your offer open to someone closer to you than I. The cost of shipping here is probably worth more than the materials in the first place. And trust me...i know all about that age thing. I see others going through it all the time. I see others going through it all the time. Often repeating themselves. I am going to get the complete set of Corteck Bags first and see just what I need, but if you don't mind, I will plagerize your idea. I think I will use the aluminum though. I am sure it is available down there at any electrical supply shop as well. We have bothe the rigid conduit and the aluminum EMT here for different applications. BTW. If you stand on your head and stare at your licence plates, this is a very unlucky number.:scared:
If I had nothing better to do than to stand on my head and stare at my license plate, my luck would be... you know, I'm not sure whether that would be an improvement or not. If I was capable of standing on my head, period, without injuring myself, THAT would be lucky! :smile:
Thought I would bump this thread before it goes the way of spiders and cobwebs... If anybody wants the "Rev A" rack, let me know.
