tricksta
designer/maker fixer/breaker
Well it's been a while since I was on here and a while since I actually rode anything other than an office chair, my poor Scorpion has been serving as a stand for a pile of random junk destined for the shed (never made it there though! ) since we've been experiencing something akin to a monsoon season for the past few months! Anyway, finally cleared all the junk and dusted the old girl off ready for getting off my lardy rear-end and putting some miles in.
Anyway,
I want/need a tailbox, the scorpion can have a lovely rear rack fitted but at around £150 it's pretty expensive for some bent bits of metal! So I thought I would try my hand at making myself a tailbox, something like a Novosport tailbox (not sure which model, but they're a lot of money and I'm a stingy northerner) but I'm thinking Aluminium!!! No GRP, fibreglass, Carbon fibre etc. (though could be persuaded) what do you all think? No-one else seems to use ally, so is there some problem with it for this use? I can't really think of anything, I mean cars, boats and planes have been using it for years! I could bend to shape and use pop-rivets to join the panels, I even have enough tools to do some hammer forming of compound curves etc.
I like the look of Coro too but I want something tougher and more secure.
Any ideas, advice, images etc. Would be much appreciated
thanks,
Rich
Anyway,
I want/need a tailbox, the scorpion can have a lovely rear rack fitted but at around £150 it's pretty expensive for some bent bits of metal! So I thought I would try my hand at making myself a tailbox, something like a Novosport tailbox (not sure which model, but they're a lot of money and I'm a stingy northerner) but I'm thinking Aluminium!!! No GRP, fibreglass, Carbon fibre etc. (though could be persuaded) what do you all think? No-one else seems to use ally, so is there some problem with it for this use? I can't really think of anything, I mean cars, boats and planes have been using it for years! I could bend to shape and use pop-rivets to join the panels, I even have enough tools to do some hammer forming of compound curves etc.
I like the look of Coro too but I want something tougher and more secure.
Any ideas, advice, images etc. Would be much appreciated
thanks,
Rich