Subject: RE: Loopframe passengers....
Author: Charlie Mullendore
Date: Apr 24, 2004, 8:50 PM
Post ID: 1716625562
Hi Lannis,
I don't know if this will be of help or even work, but here goes anyway.
Could you switch the crashbars left for right? If I'm looking at the
pics right (don't have any 'bars to look at for real), this would put
them back 6" or so and would then allow using a stock Loop footpeg. The
lower mounting would bolt up as stock, the top mounting would then
probably be to rear of the shock mount and could be attached using a
homemade bracket of some sort (flat stock between the stock mounting
hole and the tab where the grabrails and seat mount?). Just the thoughts
of a sleepy Looper! Cheers,
Charlie
http://members.tripod.com/charlesmullendore/index.htm
Lannis wrote:
Is anybody out there with a loopframe that's sporting rear crashbars ALSO carrying a passenger? My Eldo has rear crashbars (which I like and would like to keep) but it has no place to mount rear footpegs. The crashbar lower mount bolts to the two holes on the rear frame loop where the muffler bolts to. If there were no crashbar, a stock footpeg mount would go right on there no problem. However, with the crashbar in place, the footpeg would have to mount WAY forward, just behind the driver footboard, in order for the crashbar not to interfere with the passenger's legs. My wife has been sitting all morning on the back of the Eldo on a temporary rear seat waving her feet in the air trying to find the optimum comfy position, with me sitting in the floor with a footpeg in my hand, trying to figure out where the best place would be to mount it. (On reflection, that's rather a silly paragraph but never mind that). So, the question is, how have you crashbar-equipped loop riders solved the passenger foot location problem? Lannis |