1700 Trunks

[cactusjack]

Kris,

Here's what you need and it comes with an HD trunk AND a luggage rack...

[Top Cat]

Originally Posted by cactusjack

Kris,

Here's what you need and it comes with an HD trunk AND a luggage rack...

Also, from what I hear, it comes with better dealers who are willing to help you in a pinch. Not to mention a catalog of accessories as thick as a phone book.

[Monkeyman]

Accessories are overrated. Purely stock for me.

[Top Cat]

Originally Posted by Monkeyman

Accessories are overrated. Purely stock for me.

Good one Chris.

[nomadtom69]

Not that he is putting a Glide fairing on did not know that a nomad came with a Gllide fairing

[ringadingh]

Theres never enough accessories, the more the better.

[Sin City Stan]

Originally Posted by Netnorske

Has anyone put an HD style trunk on a 1700 model bike? Since they came out in 2009 I have not seen pictures anywhere where someone has done that. A lot of guys pick up the Kawi (Voyager) trunk and add to the 1700 Nomads, but those trunks are really pretty weak, which is why Kawi won't put a stock luggage rack on it.

I have read on other forums where many who have added the Yamaha luggage rack to the Kawi trunks eventually experience cracking. HD trunks can pack a load, I routinely pack about 20 lbs. in a bag on top of my trunk...no problem! If I were to someday upgrade the bike...I would like something that has a luggage rack and can carry a load.

Kris, I did that. Scootworks trunk on a homemade bracket that looked allot like a Wompas. It didn't quite make it to Crescent City though. There should be pics somewhere on this site. I never got to paint it either. So if you look for the pics it's a black trunk on a red/beige bike.

[Sin City Stan]

Wait a minute, found one.

[Netnorske]

I just KNEW somebody here had to have done that! Thx Stan.... I was just curious what the lines looked like compared to those oval shaped bags. Now I know....!

[ponch]

Originally Posted by cactusjack

Kris,

Here's what you need and it comes with an HD trunk AND a luggage rack...

I was thinking the same thing...

[ponch]

Originally Posted by Sin City Stan

Wait a minute, found one.

It doesn't look right.

[Monkeyman]

Originally Posted by Top Cat

Good one Chris.

Originally Posted by nomadtom69

...did not know that a Nomad came with a Glide fairing

The next owner of my bike can say that his Nomad came with a Tour Glide fairing.

[ringadingh]

Originally Posted by ponch

It doesn't look right.

It doesn't look right to me either, I think its because they left the passenger grab rail on the bike. That makes the box sit back a little further than it should.

[ponch]

Originally Posted by ringadingh

It doesn't look right to me either, I think its because they left the passenger grab rail on the bike. That makes the box sit back a little further than it should.

And it's not color matched and to be honest, the boxy lines of a HD tourpack don't work with the curvy lines of a Kawasaki. The late model Venture trunk works better in terms of looks and I suppose the Voyager trunk does too, even if it isn't as sturdy as it should be.

[Sin City Stan]

Originally Posted by ringadingh

It doesn't look right to me either, I think its because they left the passenger grab rail on the bike. That makes the box sit back a little further than it should.

Actually my plan was to keep the grab rails all along. They could have been removed nonetheless. That's why I made my own bracket. When the backrest was attached to the trunk the dimension from the windshield to the backrest was exactly the same as before. To mount the trunk further forward would result in less rider/passenger room.

Ponch, it was to get a two tone paint job when we returned from Crescent City but that bike didn't come home with us.