Front rack, yay or nay?
Currently travelling around Australia on my XR600R. I've been planning on making a front rack for a while, to stick a drysack on probably containing clothes. But a couple of friends haves voiced a negative opinion to this. For the reasons of killing the handling of the bike off-road, and the 'Why bother? Just find room on the back'.
I used to have this arrangement on my DR350:
It worked really great, was really strong despite being made of really thinwalled tube that weighed hardly anything. I'll have to make it infront of the plastic headlamp surround on the XR, but I'm sure I can come up with something similarly lightweight.
What do you reckon? I think it will be highly practical and hardly noticable when there's nothing on it. I do put the bike to some pretty tough use when not carrying all my gear though, probably heading down the motocross track tomorrow if the weather's good
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