The idea behind the side luggage racks Nomad-ADV do not believe in heavy steel scaffolding style luggage racks, as they feel it would be a waste to change a great bike into a Frankenstein dump truck by adding 20kg of dead weight in scaffolding and boxes alone. That’s why Nomad-ADV made an aluminium luggage rack system which is machined from billet aluminium, engineered to be light weight and strong! They made a luggage rack specifically for throw-over enduro and horseshoe type bags. These use straps or a base which go over the seat and thereby put the weight on the seat or the rear rack, which is just where you want it and why they won’t affect the handling like hard or traditional bags do as the weight is centralised on the bike rather than hanging from the side of it. It also means we can make a much lighter rack as it merely needs to keep the bags away from your exhaust and back wheel and prevent fore, aft and side ways motion. The side racks don’t need to take the full weight of your luggage and thus don’t need to be stupidly heavy, which means your bike can stay as light as possible while you still have strong side racks.

Features

• Lightweight aluminium construction
• Billet machined mounts from Swiss aluminium
• Hard anodised black
• Mosko Moto and Enduristan luggage ready
• Easy 100% bolt on
• 100% Made in The Netherlands

Why a side luggage rack for so called rack-less enduro saddlebags and horse-shoe bags?

The Desert X is a perfect bike for enduro saddlebags or a horseshoe type enduro bag, something like the Mosko Moto or Enduristan for instance. You’ll keep all the advantages of a proper off-road capable adventure bike and yet can take your luggage to that beautiful spot in the middle of nowhere. The rack-less type bags have three issues though. Fitting them without a rack scratches the bike, and even more so when inevitably sand gets in between the bag and your bike, creating nature’s perfect sander. Secondly, they can melt if they they. Thirdly, they can be hard to keep in place on certain bikes like the DX when you take the rough tracks and have some fun. That’s why we’ve made a rack especially for rack-less style bags. With our side racks you can strap the bags down quickly and properly, keep them away from the exhaust and they won’t sand through the plastics or paint. The bags won’t move and with the Mosko Moto type bags you can leave the harness in place and thus remove your luggage at the end of the day just as easily.

So how strong is it?

Noamd-ADV are known for their over-engineering, and that applies to their machined aluminium luggage racks too. We make our products to be used, and to be used in rugged and remote areas. When we made our first aluminium luggage racks, an industry first we believe, for a KTM EXC and 690 people told us we were mad. Those racks have been through Africa, Australia and South America. They have bounced over the road of bones in Siberia, survived thousands of kilometres of corrugations and crashed multiple times… some were also seriously overloaded. But, there can be a situation where the impact of a crash on a rack, any rack, will be too big for it. Then something has to give in order to protect what is behind it. At that point our rack will give way, because otherwise the damage would be on the bikes subframe, which is far more costly to fix or replace. It does have to be a serious crash before that happens though. Depending on the type of crash, the plate to which your bag rests to might bend. Because it’s a bolted construction, you can simply unbolt it and straighten it out on a bench. Much easier and better for the bikes subframe than attacking it with a big pipe in an attempt to get it back in shape, as you would have to do with a steel pannier rack.

Note/ This is for the side racks only (left and right) and mouting hardware. The rear rack and any other accessories shown are available seperately.