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Ever have a need for something but either due to budget or just an outright refusal to pay a ridiculous price for it, you had to make your own?
Can't find what you want on Craigslist, or anywhere else, for a second hand price? Or have you just wanted to make something on your own just to have something unique?
Tell us about it. Post a photo if you can. Your idea may inspire someone else to try to build their own, maybe expand on your idea or modify it to fit their own need. If it served its purpose for which you made it, that's all that matters.
I built a luggage "rack" (using that term loosely) for my Yamaha RSTD. I first built it out of wood because the sissy bar/backrest bars aren't straight up and down, but with wood I could keep shaving down the angle til I got just what I wanted.
When I finished my wood luggage "rack", I covered it with diamond plate aluminum. It wasn't the nicest looking rack I'd ever seen but it worked, and with a bag on top of it, no one could see it anyway. I wrapped my sissy bar/backrest bars with strips of inner tube and black tape to protect them and attached the "rack" to the bars using U-bolts from Farmers Supply.
I'd like to find a piston I could make into a cup holder, but not sure how hard that would be to do. If all you've got is an idea, lets hear it, get some pros and cons on how it won't work and, better yet, how to make it work.
Can't find what you want on Craigslist, or anywhere else, for a second hand price? Or have you just wanted to make something on your own just to have something unique?
Tell us about it. Post a photo if you can. Your idea may inspire someone else to try to build their own, maybe expand on your idea or modify it to fit their own need. If it served its purpose for which you made it, that's all that matters.
I built a luggage "rack" (using that term loosely) for my Yamaha RSTD. I first built it out of wood because the sissy bar/backrest bars aren't straight up and down, but with wood I could keep shaving down the angle til I got just what I wanted.
When I finished my wood luggage "rack", I covered it with diamond plate aluminum. It wasn't the nicest looking rack I'd ever seen but it worked, and with a bag on top of it, no one could see it anyway. I wrapped my sissy bar/backrest bars with strips of inner tube and black tape to protect them and attached the "rack" to the bars using U-bolts from Farmers Supply.
I'd like to find a piston I could make into a cup holder, but not sure how hard that would be to do. If all you've got is an idea, lets hear it, get some pros and cons on how it won't work and, better yet, how to make it work.
