Over the last couple years my klx has been an awesome friend. A back roads tourer, a motocrosser, explorer, commuter, and evening ride stress reliever. It inspires my imagination for building my own accessories and I have truly enjoyed that part of it. I love camping and backpacking and this year I decided I wanted to use the KLX to get me there. I have a hard panier system designed and pending assembly. I've been camping the last three weekends and needed something to get me through until the racks are done. A late night in the garage and $20 in PVC and I went camping. I have had a so much fun and its amazing how much I've packed and it has never missed a beat. This weekend was around 150 mile round trip and made the trip there and back so much more exciting! The best thing is that I can pack it on and ride to camp, and then still have a fun trail rig when i get there. Sorry for the bad phone pics. Happy Riding!

 

Not my idea of way to do a trip or a way to best use the KLX, but I am thoroughly impressed with your imaginative approach to toting your gear. If it does the job and you have fun with it, that's the goal. Salute!

 

That's very cool. I like it. Did you have any problems with the fully loaded bike on the kickstand? I had an issue with mine when loaded...it was like my kickstand was too long (suspension compressed to much). Did you adjust preload any on the rear shock?

 

Very utilitarian, I like it.
Am I correct that the rack is only held on by two bolts at the front? If so, I guess the whole thing would come off, and go back on, pretty easy. I think I'd like that too.
How much did it cost you to make?

 

On how much it's bolted to the bike/frame, he really kind of went the approach that soft bags use where the saddle and rear rack/fender are doing the bulk of the work. For carrying heavier, bulkier loads, it's really kind of ingenious. I think the KLX rear subframe isn't that suited to carrying much weight without problems down the road. This approach does a good job of bypassing some of the...and on the very cheap. It's kind of like an external frame backpack.

 

That's awesome, I camped for 4 days on a 700 mile trip like 4 years ago. The bike was perfect for what we were doing.

 

As far as the worry about too much weight on the subframe, I had no problem carrying this 40 lb mostly on the subframe.



And if something was going to break it would have been on these roads, man they were rough.

 

deej...in your case I'd be more concerned about the constant washing regimen causing the main frame to corrode and crack.

 

I can't wait for my trip 2000 miles down route 66 from Las Vegas, NV to Senatobia, MS. Looks like a lot of fun

 

Yeah, looking at the pictures a little closer, it looks like the elbows, on the lower front tubing of that rack, simply insert over the passenger foot pegs, so no bolts at all. Yes, very ingenious, I like it even more now.