While all y'all are making racks for hard cases not everyone will be running those. I have some soft side bags that I don't need a frame for, but the dang bags sit against the pipe below the plastic shield. Necessity is the mother of invention... while not as fancy as some of the other fab work going on, I did come up with a simple heat shield from some scrap steel I had laying around. I cut a rectangle that I then rolled into a half cylinder with a diameter of 5.5 inches. Since the Terra mufflers are flat sided, I get a nice little airgap on the side. I drilled some holes in the top of my steel cylinder to use the mounting torx of the plastic heat shields, and then cut two slots parallel to bottom edge about a half inch in the edge. I slipped a Stainless hose clamp through the slot and around pipe. Used a bit of wadded up header wrap to pad the and separate the new steel half cylinder from the bottom of the muffler. Now I got me some big gun exhausts. The bags will probably rub the high temp paint I used, but at least they won't melt...I hope
Hey if the front is open like I think it is. Allowing air flow. It should work very well. As long as the bags aren't too heavy to bend the shield. Ingenuity at it's best.
" First, really ingenious!! Great solution to a problem many of us are having! Second, got any pics of that bottom securement?!?
I don't think they will fold. I can hit hit 'em hard with my hip. They are pretty stout and solid considering it's hose clamps holding them in place. Maybe they will torque around and come up tight against the pipe if I drop the bike, but if they do, I can loosen the clamps and spin them back. No worries...I think. Here's the mount details. Don't know how long my little wads of header wrap will last, but I thought I needed something to separate the sheet metal heat shield from the body of the muffler.
Yea those shields look great. I have been thinking alot about using soft bags on this bike and the rack required. It would seem that the lateral force (toward the muffler) would be pretty small if you set them up correctly. plus the mufflers seem to be pretty rigid by their bolt pattern. I was thinking of just making a steel ring that would slip over the muffler and use the same bolt but be strong enough to hold up a shield like that. In other words remake the mount to the muffler to where it incorporated a strong steel ring around the muffler. This may be a really slick lightweight solution
Good stuff, still just millin around about how to keep the bags off the HOTT mufflers, and they get friggin hot. Not into re-engeneering the wheel, got me thinking about weight, mmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Finally got my racks all done. Consider this the Executive Summary….you can get the nitty gritty details in my ADV - Stupid Questions Thread. I know…..should have been some music in the background. Call me lazy. Super Thanks again to Fab1 for making these fantastic steel bushings to get me started: I promised him I would post up some photos here, when I got-R-done. Its done. Hip-hip-hooray! HF
Vinyl wrapped the Terra: Made a bash plate to deflect rocks from pitting the frame/engine: Put on some Model 60 LEDs: And some new Pirelli meats:
Looks good RE. Are the mounting brackets for the model 60s the ones that come with them or did you have to come up with something else? I have the same handguard setup and have been wondering about that mounting.
They are the 'standard' brackets that came with the lights. Not sure what the heavy duty ones look like, but they might be worth the money.
Better not let anyone from the Arm Forces see this they just might buy up all the Terra's for themselves. And we'd be left with nothing... Looks fantastic.
