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A repost for some, but I thought I'd post it here too anyway 
I'm sick of buying new luggage racks every time I get a new bike (well not every bike, maybe I've bought 5 or 6 sets of rails). I had an old rack left over (GPX250 I think) and a spare Ventura bag but I wasn't going to buy another set of racks for the GSXR.
1 X Old Ventura bag
1 X Old Ventura rack
1 X Old 2nd hand rashed up pillion seat (thanks Snailspace)
1 X Teflon chopping board from the Reject Shop
1 X Dose of Ghetto.
(All pics are standard click for big ones)
Drill the chopping board to fit the rack.
Rack on board
The clips I used hold the rack off the board high enough for the loop clips on the bag to go around the bar to secure it.
Drill the chopping board and the donor pillion seat base
Mount the chopping board to the seat base. I was going to get rid of the foam and use spacers to mount the board, but after mucking around with it I decided to leave the foam and put the cover back on (I shouldn't have removed it
) By using ny-loc nuts I can pre-tension the bolts a bit and put some pressure on the foam, but the foam will still act as a shock aborber when the bag has some weight in it, it's probably kinder to the bike too, I can't have my socks and jocks shacken up too much. The nuts won't come undone.)
Clip the donor seat onto the bike and instant ghetto rack
With the bag on
I'll have to double check when it's fully loaded, but when expanded the bag shouldn't touch any part of the bike / fairing etc
I'm sick of buying new luggage racks every time I get a new bike (well not every bike, maybe I've bought 5 or 6 sets of rails). I had an old rack left over (GPX250 I think) and a spare Ventura bag but I wasn't going to buy another set of racks for the GSXR.
1 X Old Ventura bag
1 X Old Ventura rack
1 X Old 2nd hand rashed up pillion seat (thanks Snailspace)
1 X Teflon chopping board from the Reject Shop
1 X Dose of Ghetto.
(All pics are standard click for big ones)
Drill the chopping board to fit the rack.
Rack on board
The clips I used hold the rack off the board high enough for the loop clips on the bag to go around the bar to secure it.
Drill the chopping board and the donor pillion seat base
Mount the chopping board to the seat base. I was going to get rid of the foam and use spacers to mount the board, but after mucking around with it I decided to leave the foam and put the cover back on (I shouldn't have removed it
) By using ny-loc nuts I can pre-tension the bolts a bit and put some pressure on the foam, but the foam will still act as a shock aborber when the bag has some weight in it, it's probably kinder to the bike too, I can't have my socks and jocks shacken up too much. The nuts won't come undone.)
Clip the donor seat onto the bike and instant ghetto rack
With the bag on
I'll have to double check when it's fully loaded, but when expanded the bag shouldn't touch any part of the bike / fairing etc
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