My wife has a issue with the distances we travel and the time we spend on the trail. Physically its too much for her. BUT she enjoys the sites and good times associated. SO, she is relegated to passenger status for these longer trips.
I was kinda expecting this and so I bought the bigger machine... My 700.
We have a trip coming up in three weeks, so I swapped boxes with my pop and am using his Moose Executive rear seat box and made up foot rests. I first made a frame in/on the factory rear deck. Using some 3/4" square steel, a piece of 3/16x1 1/4" flat stock and a bit of 1" x 1/8" angle iron.
I tied into the rear framework and the inner bolts to stiffen up the whole rear rack. My reasoning for all this is hand holds. I will be making some for the rear passenger as well as the actual foot holds.
I took more 3/4" thin wall steel and followed the contours of the rear fenders down to the foot wells. At the foot wells I used a piece of 1/4" x 1 1/4" steel. I drilled to match two of the factory bolts.
I attached the frame work into these.
Then I had visions of folding pegs... Some-one's factory pegs... something trick... But the minds eye isn't reality... I ended up making my own rigid pegs. They turned out VERY sturdy and relatively out of the way to the pilot.
I have since shortened this up by 1/3. They where longer than needed.
It's held on the machine with ten bolts, five on each side. I atteached the seat box by tapping four holes in the new frame work so its attached form inside the box. Here is the frame work off the machine.
Then with paint...
I had to have 12V in the box as I found it very usefull in my Sportsman box.
I am not going to keep this box, I'll likely be calling Thor before the end of the season for a WES box.
Tell me what you think!
CW
I was kinda expecting this and so I bought the bigger machine... My 700.
We have a trip coming up in three weeks, so I swapped boxes with my pop and am using his Moose Executive rear seat box and made up foot rests. I first made a frame in/on the factory rear deck. Using some 3/4" square steel, a piece of 3/16x1 1/4" flat stock and a bit of 1" x 1/8" angle iron.



I tied into the rear framework and the inner bolts to stiffen up the whole rear rack. My reasoning for all this is hand holds. I will be making some for the rear passenger as well as the actual foot holds.



I took more 3/4" thin wall steel and followed the contours of the rear fenders down to the foot wells. At the foot wells I used a piece of 1/4" x 1 1/4" steel. I drilled to match two of the factory bolts.

I attached the frame work into these.


Then I had visions of folding pegs... Some-one's factory pegs... something trick... But the minds eye isn't reality... I ended up making my own rigid pegs. They turned out VERY sturdy and relatively out of the way to the pilot.

I have since shortened this up by 1/3. They where longer than needed.
It's held on the machine with ten bolts, five on each side. I atteached the seat box by tapping four holes in the new frame work so its attached form inside the box. Here is the frame work off the machine.


Then with paint...

I had to have 12V in the box as I found it very usefull in my Sportsman box.

I am not going to keep this box, I'll likely be calling Thor before the end of the season for a WES box.
Tell me what you think!
CW