Looking for the best way/place to mount a tool tube on a 1150gs —
Inspiration needed — pics would be great
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Show me a pic of your tool tube
- Thread starter Robbiem
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If there is any tubelar rack in the back use a 15mm mupros. Its for hanging 1/2 inch copper and gives a 10mm thread to screw the tool tube to.2 Muprosses should do. JJH
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If you search "tool tube 1150 gs" on Google then select "Images" you'll get plenty of ideas.
Sounds like your a bit like me - bought one thinking there must be many ways to mount them. Tried offering it up to bike. Nothing quite fits.
Begining to wonder whether I need the bloody thing now...
Sounds like your a bit like me - bought one thinking there must be many ways to mount them. Tried offering it up to bike. Nothing quite fits.
Begining to wonder whether I need the bloody thing now...
Yes spot on — I have lots of engineering resources available but every time I offer it up - it just don’t seem right!
I have also trawled goggle images but not seen a must have yet
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Looking for the best way/place to mount a tool tube on a 1150gs —
Inspiration needed — pics would be great
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C’mon folks—
I can’t believe someone hasn’t engineered the perfect solution to fitting a tool tube on a 1150gs ?
Show us a picture !
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I away at the moment so can't take a close up pic but basically what I did was use a piece of aluminium very roughly 3mm x 30mm x 400mm and attach it between the r/h passenger footrest hanger and the rear vertical tube of the GSA pannier frame using a P clip. I then just drilled a couple of holes in the bar to mount the tube. Pic attached of the bike which shows it but not very detailed. I've since moved it further back as it touched the paralever fully loaded and under full compression of the suspension.
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Cheers — I’ll try that with my panniers — I only have the plastic ones — not sure whether they will touch or not - I’ll let you know
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FWIW, this is my theoretic plan for my own tool tube. I realise this will be of limited interest to OP as he has System panniers, but other 1150 owners may be using TT stuff and may land on this thread.
I've not begun to offer up the tube or do any detailed measurements - this is just my initial theoretic plan for now. When I get started on it, I'm sure I'll be amending and tweaking plenty to make it work.
It'll be four hefty lugs welded to my TT pannier hoop (right side, as exhaust is on the left), and two hefty hose clamps to secure the tube to the lugs.
The tube will be drain pipe with a cap glued permanently at one end, and a screw-on/off cap at the other, probably with holes drilled to allow a padlock to be used.
I may be missing something - some reason why someone else hasn't done it like this already - but that'll become evident once I start. Surprised Herbert hasn't already done something like this. Herbert - if you read this and do decide to produce something similar, remember where you got the idea, yeah...
My tool roll is 35cm long x 14cm diameter, and fluctuates between 4.5-5kg. I suspect that's heavy compared to most, and I'm always tweaking that as I discover new/different stuff/thinking, so it'll never be heavier than that.
Pics hopefully show what I'm talking about...
I've not begun to offer up the tube or do any detailed measurements - this is just my initial theoretic plan for now. When I get started on it, I'm sure I'll be amending and tweaking plenty to make it work.
It'll be four hefty lugs welded to my TT pannier hoop (right side, as exhaust is on the left), and two hefty hose clamps to secure the tube to the lugs.
The tube will be drain pipe with a cap glued permanently at one end, and a screw-on/off cap at the other, probably with holes drilled to allow a padlock to be used.
I may be missing something - some reason why someone else hasn't done it like this already - but that'll become evident once I start. Surprised Herbert hasn't already done something like this. Herbert - if you read this and do decide to produce something similar, remember where you got the idea, yeah...
My tool roll is 35cm long x 14cm diameter, and fluctuates between 4.5-5kg. I suspect that's heavy compared to most, and I'm always tweaking that as I discover new/different stuff/thinking, so it'll never be heavier than that.
Pics hopefully show what I'm talking about...
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Thanks for the post
Looks a good idea — if I only had better panniers — like you say hopefully benefit others
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Looks a good idea — if I only had better panniers — like you say hopefully benefit others
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I currently have System panniers - they do perform a function, but they're so limiting cos of their (presumably) aesthetically-influenced shape.
Can't wait for used Mundos or Pros to pop up on here (to go with my used TT carriers from on here - thanks Aidan
).
Can't wait for used Mundos or Pros to pop up on here (to go with my used TT carriers from on here - thanks Aidan
).Phaedrus,
Nice idea with the drain pipe. A mate of mine uses the same thing to carry a folding stool on Tiger 955i and I'm spending some time in the shed this weekend to make my own tool tube for my 1150, very similar to your idea. Like you, I can't think why nobody's done it before, but perhaps we've all been seduced by the marketing guys into thinking that "bought is best". I'm a cheapskate and firmly believe that the money I save making my own accessories is better spent putting fuel in the bike. Shed skills rule.
For what its worth, we made the panniers on the Tiger from a pair of US Army 30mm cannon ammo boxes. About the same size as Touratech boxes but heavier as they are steel, but they are completely waterproof and cost £60 delivered from ebay. A couple of evenings spent in the shed making the frames from some aluminium off cuts obtained free from the scrap bin of a local factory, £30 to another local company to TIG the joints plus the cost of stainless nuts and bolts and some rubber button door stops as dampers to ensure nothing vibrates lose and he has a very solid pair of panniers and frames for under £120.
Nice idea with the drain pipe. A mate of mine uses the same thing to carry a folding stool on Tiger 955i and I'm spending some time in the shed this weekend to make my own tool tube for my 1150, very similar to your idea. Like you, I can't think why nobody's done it before, but perhaps we've all been seduced by the marketing guys into thinking that "bought is best". I'm a cheapskate and firmly believe that the money I save making my own accessories is better spent putting fuel in the bike. Shed skills rule.
For what its worth, we made the panniers on the Tiger from a pair of US Army 30mm cannon ammo boxes. About the same size as Touratech boxes but heavier as they are steel, but they are completely waterproof and cost £60 delivered from ebay. A couple of evenings spent in the shed making the frames from some aluminium off cuts obtained free from the scrap bin of a local factory, £30 to another local company to TIG the joints plus the cost of stainless nuts and bolts and some rubber button door stops as dampers to ensure nothing vibrates lose and he has a very solid pair of panniers and frames for under £120.
Oh, no doubt when Herbert does start producing my tool tube, it'll cost ten times the cost of parts and labour... 
The primary motivation behind what I have in mind is a solution that's good. If it also turns out to be cheap, then all the better.
Sometimes bought is best. There's little denying that some of TT's stuff is very good. Some of it is just ridiculously expensive. So if I'm going for TT, it'll invariably be used TT...
The primary motivation behind what I have in mind is a solution that's good. If it also turns out to be cheap, then all the better.
Sometimes bought is best. There's little denying that some of TT's stuff is very good. Some of it is just ridiculously expensive. So if I'm going for TT, it'll invariably be used TT...
