Sissybar - CX500 custom

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Kal · #11 Post by **Kal** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 3:42 pm

jmillheiser wrote:hey Kal does your old trike have the little luggage rack on the back? My CX had that rack which had a removeable sissy bar that attached to it. It was the hondaline luggae rack I think.

She is just equiped with the OEM grab rail at the rear. Hondaline? Excellent, I shall investigate.

#12 Post by **Big B** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 1:58 am

kal, i still have my old hondaline luggage rack with sissybar/backrest from my old cx, the backrest is adjustable so you can use it when you're solo. let me know if you want it, i'm sure we can work something out.

#13 Post by **t_bonee** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 3:32 am

Shiv wrote:
but the idea its there to keep you from tipping during wheeling is at least as rediculous as the name.
Yah but you see videos where some people go vertical with the bike and it rests on some kind of bar or something while others can go all the way back and flip over while wheeling.

Looks like a bar that the bike is resting on when it's doing that.

Maybe a variation of a wheelie bar? I don't thinnk a sissy bar could be of much help if you wheelie that far back to begin with.

XJRJohn · #14 Post by **XJRJohn** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 4:02 am

hwheelie bars are fitted to the back of drag bikes to stop them flipping,sissy bars are fitted to the back of seat so you dont lose your pillion passenger.totally differant things.
kal,dont know if youre intrested but i got a custom honda sissy bar in garage.all chrome and got the honda eagle thing in the middle,should be able to fit it too any bike with a bit of work.call round and have a look or give us a bell.we(me and keyoke)once fit it to andys bike,he wasnt impressed,well it was his fz750 yam.xjrjohn

#15 Post by **yoda731** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 7:16 am

Big B wrote:kal, i still have my old hondaline luggage rack with sissybar/backrest from my old cx, the backrest is adjustable so you can use it when you're solo. let me know if you want it, i'm sure we can work something out.

Hey, Big B-- I sent you a PM. If Kal isn't interested, I am...let me know how much $$ you're thinking...

Thanks!
JC

#16 Post by **bok** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 7:29 am

if nothing else check out...

this place not sure what kind of pain it would be to get to you though /shrug

guitar guru · #17 Post by **guitar guru** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 8:31 am

Shiv wrote:Yah but you see videos where some people go vertical with the bike and it rests on some kind of bar or something while others can go all the way back and flip over while wheeling.

Looks like a bar that the bike is resting on when it's doing that.

That is called a twelve o'clock bar, because it lets you stand the bike upright (at 12 o'clock) without it tipping any farther back. They also have 11 o'clock bars which don't let you tip quite as far backwards. These are primarily used for stunting, and are not used on drag bikes.

jmillheiser · #18 Post by **jmillheiser** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 2:48 pm

Hey yoda if you ditch your luggage rack you will need to find a new way to mount your rear turn signals. they attach to the rack.

#19 Post by **Jamers!** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 3:08 pm

Shiv wrote:I think because it prevents you from tipping the bike over when wheeling.

Thus if you're concerned with your bike and/or your safety, you're obviously a sissy.

.

the pillon wants something secure to hold onto/sit against, there for they are a sissy.

JWF

Gummiente · #20 Post by **Gummiente** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 3:18 pm

jmillheiser wrote: My CX had that rack which had a removeable sissy bar that attached to it. It was the hondaline luggae rack I think.

That's the same one I had on my CX500C, probably. It was adjustable so that if there was no passenger then the rider could have back support. Only problem was that once it was extended that far it had a tendancy to shake and wiggle over bumps and was a real distracion at times. Also, when in the retracted position, the two pieces of tubing stuck out a good 8" behind the bike and if you weren't careful you would prang yourself on them everytime you went to put something on the luggage rack.