• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

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Another rack option

That seems to be what I'm looking for. Cheapish, not plastic. I'm curious to see some reviews.
 
Nice, simple design. But I don't know if I would trust that spacer/long bolt setup for holding up a Rotopax for long.
 
Dang I really like this except for the lack of grab handles.
I use mine a lot rolling my bike out of the garage or bike barn.
They say use it as a grab handle, but I dont see where you grab it.
 
Dang I really like this except for the lack of grab handles.
I use mine a lot rolling my bike out of the garage or bike barn.
They say use it as a grab handle, but I dont see where you grab it.

Exactly. I'm constantly grabbing the handles to scooch it around the garage.

If I went with the Nomad, I would have some handles welded onto it, and then re-anodized.

OR

another option

http://www.ktm-parts.com/650-7521-01-01-p-HUSQTR650.html

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I bought the one shown above. I like it alright I reckon. The fit & finish were great. Plenty of places to hook stuff to. The handle looking bracket can be left off...it's for helping secure a hepco Becker topbox.
 
I bought the one shown above. I like it alright I reckon. The fit & finish were great. Plenty of places to hook stuff to. The handle looking bracket can be left off...it's for helping secure a hepco Becker topbox.

Do you have a picture without that plastic covering?
 
I bought the one shown above. I like it alright I reckon. The fit & finish were great. Plenty of places to hook stuff to. The handle looking bracket can be left off...it's for helping secure a hepco Becker topbox.


I can confirm that is the H-B topbox mount. Identical to the one my wife bought but never uses any more.
 
The following pics came from Trapperj. Thanks! Looks like a nice rack. So is the rear flat portion metal or plastic?

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The flat portion that "clicks" into place is plastic. Prettys things up a bit I reckon but if not always covered with a bag I'd be afraid it'd blow off....although it hasn't happened ao far.
 
I received my Nomadic rack today. Nicely done piece of hardware. It came with stainless steel bolts and spacers to use in mounting it up. I had to play around with spacer combinations a bit because I was installing it on the Husqvarna side case racks. The holes predrilled for the Rotopax are where they are probably to allow seat removal with the can installed and not take up any seat space if there is a passenger. If I were to use it for the Rotopax I think I would drill another hole farther forward and get the can closer to the rearmost rack bolts. Not that there is much chance of this thing bending. I won't be worrying about the rear rack any longer.
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