Tool compartment pouch

thepaulmcbride

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I'm putting together a little tool kit so that I can deal with flats an other minor issues when out and about. I would love if I could stuff it all in the little compartment below the battery box. Are any of you fine folks doing the same? Do you have a little pouch or case that fits well in there? I'd love some recommendations.
 
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Probably not the answer you're looking for, but I've used ammocans as saddlebags. Gave me plenty of room for tools, rags, spare clutch cable, and some Gatorade.
 
I don’t hate this at all. What was the mounting process like? What are they connected to?
I spent a day fabbing up brackets using ⅛" thick by 1" wide steel strip I got from my local hardware store. I'll see if I can find better pics.

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The support arm bolts to where the passenger footrest used to go.
 
I think I threw the brackets in the scrap bin at work a while back. I should have taken pics of them but I didn't know any better.

Essentially I made 2 long L-brackets per box (4 total), then tied those together with 2 strips of steel. Drilled thru each L-bracket and the ammocan on the bottom only at first. Bolted the ammocan to the bracket assembly, then drilled thru the side of the ammocan and bracket assembly. Then lined the whole thing up on the bike. Marked where the holes in the side were going to be and drilled thru that chrome bar that the turn signals attached to.

Bolted the ammocan and bracket assembly to the bike, then worked out the lower support arm.

Hopefully all that makes sense. Like I said, it took me a day of pretty much building them on the fly with nothing more than a tape measure, a hand drill, a hacksaw, and a POS flux-core wire feed welder.

The reason I threw the old brackets away is because I have a TIG welder, a benchtop drill press, and a portable bandsaw in my garage now and can use the CNC mills at work if needed, so while I plan to make new brackets, I want them to look nicer than some 20-year-old kid fresh out of trade school made them.

But, like I said, they held a lotta stuff for day trips. Tools and spare parts, water/Gatorade, rags, packs of smokes...
 
It's not so much the tools that I'm looking for suggestions for and more so a reasonable sized pouch/container and a way to carry them that I can just leave on the bike and not need to think about.
 
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