Best racks always are curvy with graceful lines. Best ones stand tall and proud.
I agree that it does not detract from the appearance of your bike. It's also required if you're taking your wife or girlfriend on a picnic.
I'm not sure how the rack attaches to your bike, but I just took my Eleven Special camping. Taking the seat off is a PITA, and the taillight, too. All told, it's the seat and four bolts. It took a few minutes to install the rack, then I added the trunk. When I got home, I unloaded the bike and took that stuff back off. It really wasn't any worse than any other minor chore.
That’s a good idea. I’m thinking it would be nice to have something for the trip to the corner store or ??? I’m not a big back pack fan and strapping stuff to the seat doesn’t work do well. Maybe this is a good winter project.
I had similar thoughts before I actually installed it and when realized I didn't mind the look of it I never revisited. In case it's useful to anyone, here's a close up of it off of the bike. When I was considering it, I had this idea to fabricate some sort of thick washer/spacer for permanent install on the upper shock mount standoffs. The idea being that this would be adequately recessed so that it could accept the open-ended legs of the rack without having to remove the upper shock nuts. Then maybe some sort of wing nuts or large knurled bolts on the other two mounts (rear turn signal brackets) so they could be installed/removed by hand. Could make it a relatively easy pop-on/off (assuming it worked, heh)
Thx. Would this grab rail be a bolt on for my ‘76?
Worth a try. The grab rail shown was actually a 79 Special II grab rail sourced for very cheap years ago a a motorcycle swap meet. That grab rail did fit the shown 78 Standard but needed slight "tweeking" at the signal mount location. I would not hesitate to pick up another of those if I stumbled on it.
