Adventure Bike Rider

ok so i managed to pick up a set of metal mule pannier racks from an africa twin for the great price of £20

so today i decided to head to the workshop and hack and slash them to be grafted onto the xt660z





how they started life

i decided to use the oem yam pannier rails as the exsisting mount so after cutting out the centre rail i was left with this

after cutting everything off the hoops they were offered up and tacked in place

bracing cut,relocated and tacked in place

rear bracing cut to size and tacked

i wish i had the skills to do stuff like that

exhaust side done,i was s******g myself on this side having a cutting disc so close to that carbon can was not nice,in hindsight i should have taken the bloody thing off

taken off,fully welded and cleaned up ready for some paint pretty pleased with the way they turned out,all i need now is to finish the panniers and get em mounted all in all a bloody good day

desertraider wrote:


to be honest mate general fabrication stuff like this isnt that hard,anyone can be shown the basics of mig welding in an hour

Well done Jim, they look great.
Who's doing the coating for you?

Great skills and well put to use!

Tyrant68 wrote:


cheers ann

we use a local powder coater but to be honest im gunna 2-pack em keeping cost down etc im trying to see how cheaply i can actually build a rack and panniers for

unless you know somewhere that will do em for free lol

Fantastic work Jim