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Re: Reid rack replacement
Written by lcshepp on 11/24/2004 at 06:58 pm

Hi again Bill,

William Blakeslee wrote:

>I was thinking the backrest brackets were kind if flimsy anyway,
>unless your rider is a 120 pound kid. There isn't going to be a
>lot of carrying capacity in this thing , is there?
>
>
I think you may be underestimating what this rack can be used for.

I have pictures at Yahoo of my PC loaded with my camping gear from our
spring Mountain Motorcycle Camping Trip from 2 years ago. Between the
back seat, the backrest and the Reid rack, the back end of the bike is
loaded. You can't even see the Reid rack (or the backrest) because they
are buried under my gear. I hauled that load between 2 and 300 miles
over the mountains and back without a problem; that's 400 to 600 miles
round trip.

I hauled that same load on a 600 mile camping trip the year before.
That's 1200 miles round trip with no problems.

Check it out...

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/lcshepp/my_photos

Leland

>BB.
>
>"Leland C. Sheppard" <lcshepp@...> wrote:
>Hi John,
>
>You wrote:
>
>
>
>>Could you enlighten us on the mounting points. I have the Honda
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>>backrest.
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>It uses the four bolts that hold the backrest pad onto the back
>rest
>brackets. Remove those four bolts, hold the rack up to the
>brackets,
>start the bolts through the rack, through the bracket and into
>the
>backrest pad. Tighten them down and the rack is mounted.
>
>David is also making optional braces that will bolt through the
>hole in
>the side of the "rail" on his rack and into the end of the grab
>rail.
>The point here is to provide additional strength for the rack
>and take
>pressure off the back rest brackets.
>
>Holler if that isn't clear.
>
>
>

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Leland
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