Home made rules!!

Ok, so it's kinda home made! I wanted a rack for my bike and decided the Scaggs was the one for me, but courtesy of the rise in exchange rates the price + shipping to Istanbul made me think twice. I drew up my own rack and made a temporary one from an old & used IKEA chopping board. That broke recently. So I took my design to a local shop who put it on computer and lazer cut it. I spent about an hour filing down the sharp edges and then scrubbing it to give it its brushed aluminium look. The shop charged me 40TL ($15) for the aluminium (5mm) and cutting. If the filing/brushing wasn't so boring I could have a batch of 10 made up and sell them for a serious profit. Unfortunately I'm not entrepreneurially minded (too damn lazy)

IKEA



Snapped IKEA



Fresh off the buzzsaw



Filed/smoothed/brushed



On the bike...









Ok, I know the bolts aren't looking good like that, but the dude at the shop told me the sunken type bolts would mean the rack would lose its strength. I had two made up so I might try the sunken types to see if it holds.

What do you think lads?

Looks good!

on the bolts, you could try a button/pan head to lower the profile a bit as well.

looks awesome, can't beat that price though

Looks awesome. I agree with Brek use a stainless steel button head bolt no need for countersink..

link ->HERE<-

The bolts are M6 right? I'm having a bit of trouble finding longer ones (70mm)

dunno...i have not had the fender off yet or used the bolt holes..
but for length get something longer if you have to then hack it off to 70 mm .{i was going to post a android phone app to get bolt sizes but it only measures hex head size and bolt length}

again... the rack looks good and very functional

Thanks for the comments guys

I'm thinking of drilling some Rotopax mounting holes, however due to the design I'll probably drill them width ways between the rack mounting holes rather than length ways, which is the norm. How many mm's gap is there between the Rotopax mounting holes? And can anyone see potential flaws doing it this way?

beer goggle wrote:

Thanks for the comments guys

I'm thinking of drilling some Rotopax mounting holes, however due to the design I'll probably drill them width ways between the rack mounting holes rather than length ways, which is the norm. How many mm's gap is there between the Rotopax mounting holes? And can anyone see potential flaws doing it this way?

Think I found what I'm looking for

http://www.adventurebikerider.com/forum/21-accessories-/238758-rotopaxs.html

I do however have another Rotopax question...when installing on a rack is the mounting plate needed, or is the twisty thing simply bolted on from under the rack?

That looks great. I think you should make a dozen and sell me one of them. I do like home made type stuff especially when it looks so professional. Great job.

Thanks drb, let me get the ball rolling if I get some more made up I'll look into shipping costs etc and see if we can sort something out ;)

One thing I noticed is the brushed effect has rubbed off where the straps on my Wolfman Peak tailbag mount...for obvious reasons. I'm going to look into having it anodised...