FXRT – Yu Parts design

2026-04-16

Quick Change Luggage Rack

There is no doubt that a tour pack is a useful way to carry miscellaneous items.
However, I was sometimes tempted by the look of my motorcycle without it—it feels lighter and cleaner.

When the riding season arrived, I was looking at the rear of my FXRD one morning and realized that I could make use of the tour pack mounting bracket for something else.
That’s when I decided to build a luggage rack.

After sketching out a design, I began bending steel plates, pipes, and square rods.

To join the components, I used brazing instead of welding this time, as I wanted to evaluate the strength and durability of this method for future use.

The original tour pack is bolted to the base with four screws.
Installing this luggage rack on the FXRD is very straightforward.
Simply loosen the four screws to remove the tour pack, then install the rack and retighten them.

It is so simple that I would like to call it a “Quick-Change Luggage Rack.”

I like the new appearance from the rear and from either side so far.
I will test it on the road for a while.

2025-09-21

35mm Narrow Glide Fork Brace

I’ve been interested in fork brace for 35mm Showa Narrow Glide Forks for a long time. This time, I accidentally acquired an aluminum fender for 19 inch tyres. So I decided to make a fender support bracket which can also be used as a front fork stabilizer.

As narrow glide forks literally don’t have much more space than necessary between both fork tubes, considering the strength of the parts, I tried to go with a 2.3mm thickness stainless steel plate as main body instead of aluminum plates.

I made two aluminum rods which would bridge both stainless steel plates. The material of the rods are aluminum alloy 6061.

I drilled to make a hole on the center of each rod to put through a screw to hold fender.

This is the aluminum fender which I acquired not long ago. I suppose it was a fender for Yamaha SR400 which was equipped with 19 inch front tyre like Harley-Davidson FXR models.

I drilled two holes on the center of the fender for screws. Regrettably, several holes are remaining on either side of the fender which have been used on SR400. I must weld and fill them in the future.

Finally, I put them on my FXRD. It seems that nothing could be a trouble. There is enough clearance between the bracket, fender and tyre.

At last, I’ve done test riding and checked how it worked.

I could feel slightly that the bracket stabilized wobbling of the forks especially turning right or left.

I’m going to continue test riding for a while since I think there are several critical elements demanding for motorcycle parts and durability is one of the most important elements of them all.

2025-05-092025-05-09

Restocked 5 sets of Stainless Steel Tank Dash Inserts

Due to the requests, I have made 5 sets of “FXR Stainless Steel Fish Scale Tank Dash Inserts”.

Product page : https://yupartsdesign.com/product/stainless-steel-fish-scale-tank-dash-inserts/

2022-06-192022-06-19

On the Derby Cover swims Goldfish

harley-davidson shovelhead evolution derby cover

Derby cover with 3 mounting holes for Harley-Davidson Shovelhead and Evolution big twin models.
The base part is machined from A6061 aluminum alloy.

Goldfish and 2 gears on the surface of brass plate are realized by etching.
Etching differs from printing. Watching the surface carefully, you will notice the convex and concave figures.

Brass plate is fixed to aluminum body with 8 rivets.

The following picture shows installation example. The derby cover is put on the Shovelhead FLH primary cover.
Mounting bolts are not included.