DIY rear rack for ZX6e Ninja bike V2 completed!
Version 2 just finished today!
I used 1/2″ steel EMT tube. A 10′ piece costs about $2.50 at Home Despot. (in electrical aisle). It’s that metal conduit for garage / basement / outdoor wire running. It has some sort of coating on it too to make it ‘waterproof’ and not rust – although the cut and drill points remain to be seen how they hold up.
This is a pretty cool solution if you’re like me, and like cheap.
It’s stronger and better looking than V1. (steel vs aluminum)
I also only drilled through the lower part of EMT at the front mounts by the seat for this version. Cleaner and stronger. I used spare battery bolts and nuts up there – c’mon you been riding more than 2 years you know you have extras of those kicking around!
This version looks a LOT nicer. The crossbars in the back I integrated more into the design. Cleaner, lower profile for bags on top, and less nuts to shake around and loosen up riding.
This bike already does a good enough job shaking my own nuts around. 
I drilled into the inside portions only this time for the ‘crossbars’ at the rear. It was donor metal I scrounged from a metal rack I found abandoned on the street (that’s how we roll in the city here, or really how people and hipsters etc… do when they move here and move on). I measured and cut them to size with a hacksaw.
Oh and I should have mentioned it, I more or less followed the crutch double bends. I bent it a little more custom to raise it a little higher and dip the angle back lower a little.
But what I did with the EMT is bend the back two bends first with an EMT pipe bender. I have a tiny kink on the inside edge of one, but it’s not a big deal.
Here’s some updated measurements I made in 2015 of the same rack:
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