Thread: Rear bar fabrication

I like your cunning plan Steve!

I live up in North QLD though, so freight is the killer for me...

I have a boilermaker available to make rear bars (with twin wheel carriers or wheel/Jerry combo) at a more-than-reasonable price. I could investigate if he would be interested in doing more?

Freight would be the worst part of it.

It would not be viable cost-wise for me to purchase one from interstate, so I will be getting mine made up here.

Anyone want to buy my bike so I can get my bar and other fab work done!?!

Cheers
Keithy

Hi

Yes i thought freight may be a killer, so I guess the best we can do is come up with a design and maybe the CNC codes for the cutter.

Steve

I've been trying to get rear bar with dual swing out carriers with a twin jerry can option for one side from Ben at APT since June but he's been so swamped with other work that he can't get round to it.
I contact him about once a month but he always says that he hasn't forgotten me and will call me in a couple of weeks, after four months I'm starting to think its not going to happen.

As well as the usual high lift jack points and recovery points I'd love to have the option to mount a small (say 4,000lb) winch on the rear bar, it could certainly get you backwards out of trouble even if a dual line pull was needed and would be great for helping with hitching a camper trailer on soft ground or hauling your boat up if its own trailer winch failed.

I'll be watching this thread with great interest.

Steve, would your plan be flexible enough for someone to just get the swing away carriers?

Also recovery points would be high on the list.

Folks,
You'll notice that I have already posted the cad files for the 'ranger danger' design bar and carriers on the forum earlier this year which can be lazer cut and folded by anybody who is keen. The cad file has incorporated a few little design improvements and also has a design for rock sliders and a front bash plate, all fitted to my vehicle. Photos cad files and my costs for materials are included in the thread.

It would be great to see a production run after the time that went into the design and prototyping.
Note that the bar itself is relatively cheap, the swing-away carriers are where it gets expensive, what with hubs and latches.

I've since been bush with the setup and it is paying big dividends in both clearance and extra interior space. Note that I plan to fit tail / reverse lights to the bar as it is borderline legal without them.

I watch with great interest.....

Troy N

Thanks Troy. I'm likely to build my own to match the xrox bar but some details will definitely be useful.

DIY Rear bar and swing away carrier

Hi Troy,

Yes i have those files and was hoping to use them as a basis, however I don't have autocad and the viewer I found for my Mac shows them as tiny and I can't get them to print out.

I think your design is pretty close to perfect, I was just hoping to go over it really.

It would surely be easy to have options like, "if carrier required, drill 40mm hole here", "recovery points are welded here"

I have a mate in Taree who runs a fabrication shop, I think a drive up there is looking very likely.

Regards
Steve

Hi Steve,

I can convert them to pdf if you like?

Peter.