and I made some luggage for the XR.
the XR is using a chunk of cb750 rear fender over the acerbis plastic one, rubber mounted, to support the battery, which is in the storage bag on the back. it also has a cb ignition, with the same trick chrome ignition flip cover as on my 750. now it also has a 750 front fender brace as a support for the pannier bag. so all kinds of cb parts on this sohc-1 Honda.
here's my luggage mini project pasted from the thread at thumpertalk. (obviously this isn't sohc-4 stuff but it's better than just letting this thread stagnate.) I promise I'll get back to the 750 soon!
from the TT thread-
so I was inspired by zx12r to do something using what I have laying around.
I always save stuff instead of tossing it when it breaks, then take it apart and keep any hardware, brackets, etc. so I have tons of random bits to make things out of.
and I dug through a closet full of old bags and found my girlfriends old gap bag. it is made from super heavy duty canvas which has a rubberized coating on the inside of it and a nice liner with lots of convenient pockets. it also had super ugly blue and purple straps and orangey brown vinyl accents. with the green liner it was like a pukey rainbow.:eek: luckily the body of the bag was black. the straps were only necessary on the back where it mounts so I just removed them from the front and sharpied the vinyl bits black. the back strap would be a tiny bit visible from some angles so I darkened it with leather dye I had laying around. and added a reflective patch that wasn't doing anything useful for night time visibility.
with the removed strap-
after modifying-
I ended up using a cb750 front fender brace cut in half for braces to keep it off the chain and other moving parts
I added a metal loop so the zipper can be locked. obviously a thief could just cut the bag, but that takes more balls and draws attention to his being a thief and not the owner of the bag. I also added magnetic snaps from another old purse that keep the top flap down for extra rain protection. the rubberized coating should keep the inner contents mostly dry.
this bag will hold lots of crap. as an experiment I filled it with a gallon and a quart can, both full, and a spray gun and spray cup. zips up and works nice.
on the other side I decided to just add a small tool bag. I can always add more later. I used an old army surplus bag that had been used as a purse as well by my girlfriend, complete with punk rock patch. it has reinforced mounting points for some military use. I put rubber mounted washers and screws in the side cover air holes to mount the bag. I can take it on and off easily w/out taking the mounts off.
new carb gets here on monday, then the xr is mostly complete and I can get back to the 750! with school, though I don't expect to finish the 750 for a while...
now to do some homework
