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The basics PHYSICS is not correct, let alone the execution. The entire tourpack and its cargo is cantilevered with support ONLY at the front end. That's like taking the load inside a pickup truck bed, sliding it rearward until only a few inches of it is still actually on the truck, fastening those few inches to the truck bed, and expecting that few inches to support the remainder of the load hanging off the back of the truck!
As soon as you put any appreciable weight in it, and bounce down the highway with the HD trike's rather marginal suspension, it's going to get shaken a LOT and it's going to try hard to fatigue the mount that it is suspended on. Also, your passenger putting ANY wieight against it, particularly under acceleration, is going to greatly ADD to the force already trying to bend or break the mount. It's also going to make the OEM luggage rack mounted underneath it almost useless because it allows you to only place a very thin layer of cargo onto that luggage rack.
I can though think of one way that you can make things better: Put a layer of luggage on that OEM luggage rack that is high enough, and firm enough, to support the tourpack. That will take the load off the tourpack cantilevered mount by transferring it onto the OEM trunk lid, AND enable your passenger to actually lean against the tourpack.
There is a plate that you install to reinforce the mounting location. It allows the mounting points to offload stress along the frame vs the backrest mounts within the outer fascia. To be fair, this will likely hold very minimal of things. Mostly stuff my wife needs ready access to. There wont be any passengers. The overall brackets appear sturdy and well designed. I probably wouldnt put much in there, but it gives her a little flexibility. Sharing a few extra pics to get some further design context.
They had a booth setup @ Black hill HD during Sturgis and displayed this unit mounted on a Freewheeler. It seemed more substantial than I had thought just looking at the pictures. If I needed to mount a Tour pak on the rear of one of these trikes I'd give it a try. They were a hundred dollars cheaper at the rally also.
The basics PHYSICS is not correct, let alone the execution. The entire tourpack and its cargo is cantilevered with support ONLY at the front end. That's like taking the load inside a pickup truck bed, sliding it rearward until only a few inches of it is still actually on the truck, fastening those few inches to the truck bed, and expecting that few inches to support the remainder of the load hanging off the back of the truck!
As soon as you put any appreciable weight in it, and bounce down the highway with the HD trike's rather marginal suspension, it's going to get shaken a LOT and it's going to try hard to fatigue the mount that it is suspended on. Also, your passenger putting ANY wieight against it, particularly under acceleration, is going to greatly ADD to the force already trying to bend or break the mount. It's also going to make the OEM luggage rack mounted underneath it almost useless because it allows you to only place a very thin layer of cargo onto that luggage rack.
I can though think of one way that you can make things better: Put a layer of luggage on that OEM luggage rack that is high enough, and firm enough, to support the tourpack. That will take the load off the tourpack cantilevered mount by transferring it onto the OEM trunk lid, AND enable your passenger to actually lean against the tourpack.
Jim G
they make and sell the extra mount to make it more secure
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