Easy Bracket Loads

[Bishop]

Anyone know off hand how much weight Easy Brackets can hold?

I'm working on an ammo can saddle bag project using 40mm long and low cans but 1 can alone weighs 14 pounds.

 

[Steve S]

I have Easybrackets with Givi plastic bags on them and have had them loaded up for touring, not sure they are up to 14lb bags plus load, they bounce about on the road I have been thinking about making up some sort of supports to stop them bouncing.

 

[NativeOne]

Marcus: This is probably a dumbass idea and you have probably already thought of it! However, place some longer bolts where the Triumph fender bolts go on, like the Corbin bags do, only on a reverse pattern with the head inside the fender and the threads outside. Drill some holes in the ammo boxes to align to the bolts and make a support one piece bracket to mount and support the box both inside and out! Use a double nut locking system on the backside so the box will stay stationary and another nut on the inside against the metal bracket. Maybe that will work and cost a trip to none other than Ace Hardware!

Native One

 

[Bishop]

I did consider that. I also still have the mounting posts from my leatherlykes.

The idea would be that I'd pull them off twice a day though, or at least one of them and not use my t-bag anymore.

 

[Michel]

I had the Hepco & Beckers on my old Thunderbird for almost 10 years and these cases are IMO the best you can buy. Once I rode 1400km through torrential rain and there was no laek whatsoever. The mounting is strong has never let me down.

 

[Hipporider]

I did consider that. I also still have the mounting posts from my leatherlykes.

The idea would be that I'd pull them off twice a day though, or at least one of them and not use my t-bag anymore.

get some brass bushes turned up that fit on the Lyke studs and fabricate a bracket that is welded to the ammo cases.Use the split pin idea that Lyke use but maybe those pins that have a circular clip that folds over as well ,kinda like what folk use for bonnet clips on fast cars.
Funny thing is i had also considered the ammo cases ,but the 7.62 machine gun belt cases seem too small and every thing else looked too big.
The other idea of mine was to use any variety of Pelican brand cases with the EAsybrackets.They look good in black too!

 

[Bishop]

40mm long low cans:



18 in. long x 6 in. wide x 10 in. high

 

[NativeOne]

Juggs: That Hepco and Becker mount looks adaptable to what you need and could be removed easily. I don't know how expensive they are though! You could drill some mounting bolts through it easily and those 40 mm cans would fit nicely on them!

Native One

 

[Navigator]

Marcus, you might also want to take a look at the Edge Brackets.

http://www.edgeleather.com/General-Info ... ckets.html

As I recall, they are rated at about 20 pounds but these type of ratings are generally understated. I can't find it on the web site but I called them to ask questions and they were helpful. There is a number on the home page.

 

[Bishop]

For some reason I just can't get my engineer brain to wrap around how they keep the bags supported on the lower edges.

All the support is up top, this would force the bags to slant inward at the bottom would it not?

The leahterlykes have a hard rubber ridge that rests against the rear springs to support them, these things, the Edge and Easy do not.

The Hepco Becker has a lower support but it doesn't look like an easy quick release, I'm sure I could fashion the cans to come off, but the brackets would stay behind. I don't really want that. I want a clean look when I take them off with no use of tools.

I suppose I could put a similar support on the ammo cans as the leatherlykes but them I'm rubbing on my black Progressives and I just know it'll rub a polished spot after time.

Maybe I could find a way to put some sort of vertical pin that would slide into a tube that I weld to the can on the bottom to keep it away from the bike and add a little more support.