The Other Bike

Here are some pictures of bike #2, I used the same foot peg and hockey puck mounting system as Scott did on his bike, instead of the aluminum extrusion I used some heavy steel strap welded to steel pipe to capture the hockey puck.

The leather patch is there to protect the pannier and the heat shield.










Foot peg mount with locking pin.












Left side mount.












Right side mount.













Here is the finished product.









If anyone has any questions please feel free to ask.
thanks for looking!

To Paint or Not To Paint?

The panniers are done, mounted, and a few days of warm (meaning 40-ish F) have provided the opportunity to ride test. I've put in 60+ miles with them on, and nary a rattle or shake. I can hardly tell that they're back there, and they haul some stuff too.

The question now is finishing. We've been discussing a number of options, from leaving them as-is, rust and all, to straight black, to a mimic of the bike colors. Isaiah painted one of his black, but he wasn't happy with it. The other question, if we decide to go ahead and paint them, is what kind of paint to use. Do we just rattle can it, or do we try to use some higher quality paint, or even have them painted up somewhere. Going too far with the paint kind of violates the spirit of the project, but we do want the bikes to look nice with the cans on.

Isaiah is working on getting his title work done so he can license the bike, hopefully within the next couple of weeks. I'm looking forward to getting out on the road together.

More Pannier Work

Now that the front attachment is set, it's time for the rear. The idea was to mount the rear to a hockey puck with a bolt, and then hang that from a bracket attached to the frame.































A few bolts and pins to fasten them down, and then the long wait for the ice in the street to melt so that I can take it out for a spin!

Ammo Can Pannier Project

So this is the first major project with the Scramblers: The Ammo Can Panniers. The reasons for going with the ammo cans were obvious: they're tough, waterproof, and best of all, cheap! Also with minimal work they can be welded and drilled to mount up.So with a set of four cans purchased for $15 each on sale at the local farm/ranch store we set to work

First of all, the mounting strategy: We decided to mount a post onto the passenger footpeg mounting points, which would attach to the ammo can at the front bottom to provide a forward mounting point and torsional stabiltiy. The rear support would be mounted to the frame under the seat, and would attach to the ammo cans using a hockey puck as a mounting point.

Seems simple enough. Now for the execution part.

We spent most of a Saturday getting the pieces cut and welded. We used two sizes of steel pipe, sized so that one would slip into the other. The larger size we cut into 1 inch lengths and welded to the bottom front corner of the can, as shown in the images below. A chunk of angle iron was also used to strengthen the weld.




































The post was constructed of a length (7" for the left side, 9.5" for the right side to extend past the pipes) of the smaller pipe, with a plug and a grade 8 bolt welded in place, which was then attached to the bike on the passenger footpeg mount.























Just slip the rings over the tube, and there's the front mount.