BMW Pillion Mount Aux Tank

I recently had a client that wanted me to make an auxiliary tank to mount over the pillion seat on his K1600GT. He wanted to use his existing BMR shelf as the mounting.

The BMR shelf required a cutout for the shut off valve but otherwise it was a pretty straight forward job of building and mounting a tank. Stainless steel rivet nuts were installed in the BMR shelf and the tank bolted straight onto it.

Having access to the BMR shelf worked out perfectly for me. I was able to get the measurements I needed to make brackets and now have the solution to mounting a tank above the pillion seat using these stainless steel brackets I am now fabricating.

With these brackets I can fabricate and mount a tank that leaves the BMW top case intact. Alternatively, I can fabricate a longitudinal tank that extends from the rider's seat back over the tail rack. 

This means that there are now three options for the BMW models that use the lattice type luggage rack, these models include: the K1600GT and GTL, all flavors of the R1200, the R, RT, and ST, the K1200GT, the K1300GT, and all variants of the F800, the R, S and ST.