Diy back rest idea

I know this isn't for an Intruder, but it's details of a home made luggage rack I knocked up which might give someone on a budget an idea.

The starting point was a piece of Dibond (the type of aluminium composite they make signs out of).

Rather handily I had a piece ever since the logo fell off our building at work!

I wanted a kind of shield shape to match the tapered rear end of my bike, and to also take a design cue from the headlamp. So using a length of wood and a pencil as a compass, I drew arcs till I'd perfected the shape, then cut it out just using a jigsaw with a fine blade...



I then got some fairly lightweight steel bar and cold bent it to shape as a support rail...



Here's how the support frame sits on the backrest


Simple angle brackets and large headed pop rivets joined the two together



Gave the whole thing a couple of coats of peelcoat type paint


And here it is on its maiden voyage today...

Looks great Mal! Cracking job you've done there.

Excellent job, looks really good.

ever the inventor! another great success mal

Looking good Mal!

that's a great looking piece of work

Erm I don't want to get on your bad side Mal but it's a rear carrier/rack NOT a back rest is it, come on now buck up yer ideas young man!

You don't know what angle Mrs Bigmal rides at!!

OK, you got me, smart arse 

peardrop3 wrote:

Erm I don't want to get on your bad side Mal but it's a rear carrier/rack NOT a back rest is it

Well done on spotting the 'deliberate mistake' Pete!

What thickness is the steel used as the support bar Mal?