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Hi All

First post as a newbie.......I have been scanning the ads for weeks to find a scooter rack for my motorhome and am amazed at the sheer cost of these things. My simple question is this, ...........The amount of work that is put into the rack can be easily done by my local steel fabricator,powder coated and finished for less than half the price of what I have seem for sale in the back of the mags. Assuming that a few subtle changes are made to avoid any patent problems I reckon these can be marketed at around £100 less than the cheapest I have seen advertise at £395. If this is acheivable would you buy one(hypothetically)

hi boggy

i dont know why you cant make yourself

i  make my own ... and just with a small hand drill machien on 18 volt i can lower or bring back up the rack .. possible to lift up 250 kg , sorry i dont know how much in ponds

any way we take always the scooter with us .. no eassyer way for us now to take off or put back the scooter .. even kid can do :)

regards louis & carole

Hi Louis n Carole, this is very interesting, could you post some details of the rack you made? The one I use at the moment means I have to lift the motorcycle into place as well as lift it off, not much fun as it's rather heavy and it needs to be lifted about 500mm when on level ground.

Phil.

hi phil

for sure i would like to send you more details

bud i am afraid its not that eassy to put it down with a few words in this forum ....

i see how i can do that ok ....

carole & louis

Hi Carole and Louis, thanks for the offer. I am sure lots of people on this forum would be very interested in how you made your rack. Quite a few would love to take a scooter or small motorcycle with them on holiday but the commercially available racks are so expensive.

Phil.

Hiya Phil

As soon as louis gets back from Zeebrugge he will send you the details, but first he will send you a pic of the schooter rack and try to explain how he made it, one thing is for sure its certainly made life easier and many a time folk tend to look at the rack when we are in camping etc and seemed pretty impressed. So get back to you a.s.a.p on the details.

Carole

Thanks Carole we look forward to it.

Phil.

Hi carole,

I have been scouring the earth for scooter racks and have drawn a blank.  As I hail from Northern Ireland I cant get one here at all.  If you could send me details I might be able to get one manufactured over here. As we intend to tour abroad a lot next year due to retirement a scooter would be invaluable. 

Thanks      Edendarriff