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mr jamez
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PostPosted: 20:53 - 07 Feb 2009    Post subject: renntec racks Reply with quote
Got one of these for my S4, the max recommended load is 2.5KG's Laughing

What can they really take?
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PostPosted: 21:11 - 07 Feb 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
General accepted thing is to fit a Rickman top box and fill it. If it breaks it's too much. Never seen one break.
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PostPosted: 21:18 - 07 Feb 2009    Post subject: Re: renntec racks Reply with quote
mr jamez wrote:
Got one of these for my S4, the max recommended load is 2.5KG's Laughing

What can they really take?


Well I regularly pick up the back of my tt600 by the rack, so I guess that would be a weight of about 80kg taken a way its not really designed to go

taking 80kg on the rack and going over a bump would stress it more than picking up 80kg of the back of the bike, but i'd say you are probably good for 40kg

pure guess work though really
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PostPosted: 21:50 - 07 Feb 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Had one on my gixer. No real idea of the weight but; tent (which weighs about 3kg) sleeping bags, bed rolls and various other bits and bobs. I am guessing at about 6 or 7KG.
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Kickstart
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PostPosted: 21:57 - 07 Feb 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hi

Part of the limit will be based on the effects on handling. The top box on my Divvy was rated at something silly like 5kg. Loading it up with a load of tools (nowhere near full, but rather a long way over the load rating) made the handling rather interesting.

All the best

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alun111
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PostPosted: 07:48 - 08 Feb 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
I have one on my hornet...

every week for college I load it with.... heavy steel toe capped boots, two paper files, overalls, 2l bottle of juice, a lunch box and a cable lock - all this comes in at probably about 20kg and I've not had any problems.
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mr jamez
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PostPosted: 10:35 - 08 Feb 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
The weight will probably help as I am too light for the bike anyway Razz

I won't be going mad with it, but I need to put an expensive powertool on it this week which weighs around 10KG along with some other bits, sounds like it will be fine Smile
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Tarmacsurfer
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PostPosted: 14:20 - 08 Feb 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Kickstart wrote:
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Part of the limit will be based on the effects on handling. The top box on my Divvy was rated at something silly like 5kg. Loading it up with a load of tools (nowhere near full, but rather a long way over the load rating) made the handling rather interesting.

All the best

Keith


I got a pick up in Coventry late one afternoon that needed to be pulled back into Brum to go on the evening trunk run down south somewhere. Three small boxes, all 10cm or less so would go easily enough in the top box. The first clue that all was not as it seemed was when I pulled up at the gate of a fasteners company and they looked blankly at me, asking why I was there. After explaining I was waved through to the despatch gate with a few badly muffled laughs. Pull up to despatch bay, park the GT and someone asks if I'm really the pick up, at this point a bloke comes out of the door with a low loader stacked with three small boxes.

Managed to get them loaded onto the bike (with much protest from the rear shocks) and hauled them back into base, it transpired there were 60 kilos of stainless fasteners in the boxes. It was what can only be termed an "interesting" ride carrying them back. That was a seriously braced box though and also sitting on the pillion seat, not just bolted on like the Rentec stuff. Having said that, up until recently I had a rentec system on the ZZR and never had any problems, good solid rack.
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Billy Balthorpe
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PostPosted: 20:19 - 08 Feb 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
I load mine up with whatever i need to. I also use it to pick up the back end of the bike to shuffle it around the garage.
I have not had a bike in 10 years that didnt have a Renntec rack permanently attached to the rear.
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