The Horror - Top Case For Speed Triple

Gents and Ladies:
Don't excommunicate me without cause. I will get my 2018 Speed Triple RS next week. I use my cycle =/- 300 days a year because it is my main means of transportation So a top case to stash the helmut and a few items is very handy. I readily concede they are ugly.but I prefer it to paneers.

So my question is with regards to the SW-Motech ALU-Rack. Has any one attached it to a Speed Triple? Are you satisfied with its fit and/or performance?

I will appreciate your suggestions and advice,
Thanks

 

I figured the hounds of hell would be set loose on me. So silence is better than the alternative.

 

Less than £20! Shipping to the US will cost that much! How can they make money at that price point? Thanks for the suggestion.

 

So I finally received a SW MOTECH Alu-rack (they were on backorder here in the States for a long time) and tried to fit it to my new Speed Triple RS. I don't claim to be a master mechanic but I have rudimentary skills and after several hours of tinkering I feel confident in saying that the Alu-Rack design does not fit the new Speed Triple. If anyone has mounted it please let me know how you did it. Otherwise, buyer beware. (What gets me is that I wrote SW MOTECH and asked whether the current Alu-Rack they offer for the Speed Triple would fit the RS and they responded that it would.)

 

Here is my best effort to describe the fitment issue. There are two issues and I tried to resolve both of them with improvised solutions and then decided it is ridiculous to re-engineer an accessory that should fit the bike without Rube Goldberg solutions.

First, the "Mounting angle" that is attached under the pillon has two important fitment issues. It cannot seat properly because the angle hits against a plastic assembly that holds the UBS port and the pillon latch. I figure I could solve this problem by cutting out assembly to make space for the angle. I used a Dremel tool and starting cutting out a 2" x 4" rectangle from the rear of the assembly. But before I completed the cutting I decided to see if I could assemble the rack with the plastic underseat assembly temporarily removed. I quickly realized that the mounting angle does not reach the bottom of the underseat tray. There is a +/- 1 inch gap between the bottom of the angle and the tray. I thought I might be able to rig some spacers so I proceeded to mount the angle and to drill the holes for the mounting screws to extend down from the mounting angle to the mounting struts.

Second, I then realized that the mounting screws would need to be longer to reach from the angle (suspended +/- 1 inch above the underseat tray) all the way through the spacers under the underseat tray to the strut. My guess is that with longer screws the fitment would still be problematic because the angle of the screws would be different from the intended fitment.

Botton line is that the fitment should be essentially "plug and play" with the exception of drilling two holes. I regret to report drilling those two holes is the least of it!

 

I wish I could get mine to fit! I can only assume
guciopg received a different mounting angle than I did. I am including some photos to demonstrate the problem. It's hard to photograph the problem because it is in the well of the underseat space. In any case, I hope you can see that the mounting angle cannot not seat properly because it hits the USB/pillon latch assembly. But even if it is seated there is a gap of an inch between the angle and the underseat tray.



Photo A is of the mounting angle resting in the available space. It can't seat properly because the mounting angle (on the left of the photo) hits the USB assembly.



Photo B is lit so as to show the contact in the underseat well. You can also see that even if it did seat fully there is a substantial gap between the angle and the undertray.

The folks at SW-Motech said the fitment should work,but the folks at Twisted Throttle wrote today and said that it would not fit the new speed Triple.

I jus wish i knew what kit guciopg has.