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Alright, admittedly I sort of stole this idea and used alternate materials to keep the cost down, but all things considered I think it worked out pretty damn nice..

Can you spot the additional storage that now houses 1/3 of my (extremely inclusive) tool kit?

How 'bout now?

Pretty sweet , eh?

A hanging bracket bolted to the frame holds those nice lookin' double hose clamps..

The tube is just a 4" diameter piece of ABS pipe with compression caps on the ends..All in all probably 3-4 liters of storage.


Tighten those wing nuts to compress an inner rubber seal and force it outwards against the inside of the tube... creating not only a secure cap, but a weatherproof seal, too! Brilliant!
BMW should've offered this thing as a factory accessory!

The only thing I have yet to thoroughly test is the Clarence of the rear wheel under full suspension compression.. I set the rear shock to the spongiest setting and performed a highly scientific bounce test, however, I'm curious of the compression while riding over big rocks or logs or something.. I suppose I'll find out the answer to that question sooner or later..



In other news, it looks like Alisa will be hangin around Seattle for another day or two, and coincidentally, I've got a couple of days off ;) I'll be riding over the Northern Cascade Hwy to eastern Washington (possibly Idaho) on Thursday, camping out over there for the night and finally completing that loop that I designed a couple of weeks ago!

Stay tuned...