Tail Bag Givi Adapter

[raesewell]

As some of you may know I recently bought a really good value and nifty little tail bag from Sportsbikeshop.

The only bugbear was attaching and hiding the straps, so I wanted a solution to attach it to the Givi rack without the straps. This is what I came up with.

The yellow dot you can see is the hole I drilled where the knock through is for the Givi electrics with the nuberplate making it look yellow

http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a540/raesewell1/FJR/20170603_092242_zpsg2hklple.jpg

I made a hardboard template

http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a540/raesewell1/FJR/20170603_092357_zps1kctsyen.jpg

From that hardboard template I created an Acetate plate to accept the bag base.

http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a540/raesewell1/FJR/20170603_092437_zpsspgtcxcx.jpg

Here are the components

http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a540/raesewell1/FJR/20170603_092555_zpsaxnc8z8y.jpg

I just happened to have an M6 knob in my goody drawer

http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a540/raesewell1/FJR/20170603_092617_zpst4kslmds.jpg

After a bit of drilling and counterboring

http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a540/raesewell1/FJR/20170603_092651_zpsan2hkjrb.jpg

The knob fits discretely under the rack. I made a spacer so that I could use a longer bolt so the knob didn’t go too far into the rack and make it awkward to do up.

http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a540/raesewell1/FJR/20170603_093153_zpsd04vmbeb.jpg

Bag base bolted to the Acetate base.

http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a540/raesewell1/FJR/20170603_093206_zpshjzqmgl3.jpg

A couple of pictures of the finished job.

http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a540/raesewell1/FJR/20170603_093423_zpsag7glwdj.jpg

http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a540/raesewell1/FJR/20170603_093433_zpsexh3jjwa.jpg

[megawatt]

Top mod mate.

[megawatt]

How do you create an acetate plate?

[raesewell]

I had a large sheet of black acetate in the garage, I cut a piece off on the table saw, bandsawed it to the rough shape and then routed it with a flush trim bit on the router table.