Genuine Laverda back rack

[Mtoliva]

Thanks, here’s another picture which shows the main problem, the lugs on the rack are much 2cm wider than the both front and rear frame mounts, my rear frame lugs are also 19.5 cm, like yours, so clearly my rack is too wide?
Ive tried gently bending the rack arms but no luck, I don’t want to risk cracking the chrome finish. I could extend the seat mount bolts, but the suspension is more difficult as the rack lugs fall directly above the top of the Maxton shocks

 

[The Sock]

They just need a little fettling.
Draw them in with a ratchet strap, until you can get a nut and bolt on, then leave them bolted tight for a couple of days.
The steel will relax to fit.

 

[Paul Marx]

Thanks, here’s another picture which shows the main problem, the lugs on the rack are much 2cm wider than the both front and rear frame mounts, my rear frame lugs are also 19.5 cm, like yours, so clearly my rack is too wide?
Ive tried gently bending the rack arms but no luck, I don’t want to risk cracking the chrome finish. I could extend the seat mount bolts, but the suspension is more difficult as the rack lugs fall directly above the top of the Maxton shocks

Or turn up a couple of spacers.
Your rack is wider all round.
If you look at the photo of my 3C, the shock mounting is behind the shocks. I'd made up a small spacer to compensate on the bottom mounting of the shocks to keep them vertical.
The same on my SF2 which has a factory rack.
Paul

 

[CLEMTOG]

those factory racks are weedy, flimsy, badly designed items, AND>>>>> no bleeding spring to keep the flap up when not in use = pathetic. this is what you need, 35+ years old, used to crane bike aboard ships and also to hold it down to ships decks and recovery truck beds, has saved the bike from serious damage in falls a few times as well. Very happy for Phil Trotter tp reply as long as he does not use the word scaffolding!
CLEM

 

[Vince]

I rate it multiple Beer Case holdable. That looks really structurally sound.

 

[piranha-bro2]

No point having a rack that can't cope with everything you want to throw at or on it - especially once you're on the road a long way from home.

 

[motoddrob]

I had a factory rack fitted to my SF2. Did a couple of hundred thousand kays with it, many of those kays loaded with heavy packs for 2 people on my travels, on some seriously shit Oz dirt roads as well as my travels through Canada the US and Mexico and that rack never gave me any issues.
Yes Vince it even carried cartons of beer on many occasions. A fantastic rack IMO.

 

[piranha-bro2]

My original SF1 rack was also sturdy, but replaced it when i fitted the 2 x 20L plastic gerry can panniers for around Oz touring.

 

[motoddrob]

I also had the jerry can panniers fitted with that rack Q

 

[piranha-bro2]

There they are!! But geez, you travel light, Rob! I mounted mine on a steel wrap around from shock to shock, secured at the tail light mount and most of the weight supported by a straight steel flat from wrap around down to pillion pegs. 1000s of km of bulldust and corrugations between east coast, Darwin and down the west coast to Perth and never faulted.

 

[Vince]

If you're camping, that's typical. Add in cooking gear and food, and it soon mounts up. I prefer carting all my own gear, tried that going to Bruce's last National Rally. Not a problem years back. But this time I couldn't get my leg over the gear without standing on a handy high gutter. I struggled to meet up at the start of The Old Rd and gave up. Thankfully, Chris was taking his car. My Shame, my camping crap went in Chriss car. At least I gave it a go; most on that ride never even considered it. In reality, I got a fair bit of stick from some for just trying it. What convinced me was once having my gear including wet weather gear on a Snowy Ride in the car trailer and yes it pissed down. Never again.

 

[Paul Marx]

What let's go on a 750 isn't the rack, it's the rear frame rails.
Paul

 

[78jotadave]

There they are!! But geez, you travel light, Rob! I mounted mine on a steel wrap around from shock to shock, secured at the tail light mount and most of the weight supported by a straight steel flat from wrap around down to pillion pegs. 1000s of km of bulldust and corrugations between east coast, Darwin and down the west coast to Perth and never faulted.

Here you go Q, Rob, ugly as, but you don't see the rack when it is loaded and it has never let me down in 43 years of use. I have a set of new Black plastic Jerry cans to go with it but I have yet to cut into them and fabricate them into panniers, bought them on eBay (they are made in Oz).
As for the original Laverda rack it too was a great rack, I remember 'the Gnome' sitting on the back of my 3c facing the rear while holding/stabilizing a Pony Keg on the Laverda rack. Kalamunda Pub to the Lesmurdie Rd house, good party, Cheers

 

[chrisk]

There they are!! But geez, you travel light, Rob! I mounted mine on a steel wrap around from shock to shock, secured at the tail light mount and most of the weight supported by a straight steel flat from wrap around down to pillion pegs. 1000s of km of bulldust and corrugations between east coast, Darwin and down the west coast to Perth and never faulted.

I did the Capricorn Hwy a few weeks ago Q, it’s not pleasant ATM. Truck did a windscreen, thanks to a road train coming the other way at speed, and fucked the front shocks on the ‘highway’ surface, 370klms in 6.5 hours.

Got to Cape Carpenter and a bloke told me to head south taking the Tableland Hwy, just as bad if not worse.

 

[piranha-bro2]

I did the Capricorn Hwy a few weeks ago Q, it’s not pleasant ATM. Truck did a windscreen, thanks to a road train coming the other way at speed, and fucked the front shocks on the ‘highway’ surface, 370klms in 6.5 hours.

Got to Cape Carpenter and a bloke told me to head south taking the Tableland Hwy, just as bad if not worse.

Hard way to earn a quid, CK! Lee, I and a mate did the Carpentaria in 74 on our 360 Yammies. Overtaking road trains was ... an interesting experience!! We wanted to ride Boorooloola to Burketown but freaked out at the first big tidal river crossing, which we were later told was the worst of the many - but we probably woulda camped out and been eaten by salties if we'd decided to keep going anyway!