Yamaha v star with voyager trike kit need parts

Daveg said:

I am new to the site today. Hope someone can help me.I came across a voyager trike for sale and got it.It was on HD so the rear axle brackets will not work on my v star 650.I can make the belly pan work with out to much work.I am looking for someone that wants to sell me the rear axle brackets.I called voyager.That was fun.

They don't care what you want, they will only sell the hole mount kit(belly pan,rear axle brackets and some other mise.stuff.They want $900.00 for it.That is more than I payed for the hole thing.It would be great if someone had the brackets.If not I will have to make them or have them made.I am sure it will be a heck of lot less than $900.Thanks for any help.Have a great day.

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rhino 2 said:

Dave Welcome To Trike-Talk..........:wave4:...About the brackets Maybe Lee H Mann [Jim Murphy] Can help you out...Once he sees this post....

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Daveg said:

Ok I got it done and it works great.Rides good I will try to post a few pictures.View attachment 98394Like I said before I took off all that stuff they had on the back to mount it and made my own set up.It is about 45 to 50 pound lighter now.Trike wheels are about 1 1/2 inch back from center of bike axle.This make the steering easy to turn and it goes down the road with out any pulling to one side or the other.It was less than $80 in parts to do this not the $900 dealer wanted for parts.Yes it took some time to work it out,but time I had.Hope this help some one .Have a great day

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Steve80 said:

Hey can I see how you made the rear brackets? I'm running into the same problem you had!

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Daveg said:

Ok I got it done and it works great.Rides good I will try to post a few pictures.View attachment 98394Like I said before I took off all that stuff they had on the back to mount it and made my own set up.It is about 45 to 50 pound lighter now.Trike wheels are about 1 1/2 inch back from center of bike axle.This make the steering easy to turn and it goes down the road with out any pulling to one side or the other.It was less than $80 in parts to do this not the $900 dealer wanted for parts.Yes it took some time to work it out,but time I had.Hope this help some one .Have a great day

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Kchammer12 said:

I was wondering if you have pics off the rear brackets and the mounting plate. i have the same issue. brought a kit that was on a yamaha venture 1300. for the most part we can get the belly plate to fit. As you said the rear mounting brackets are made to the specific bike. I have some ideas of modifying to fit but would like to see what someone else has already done.

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Daveg said:

Sorry I didn't get back sooner. The rear brackets for v star are strange and they want to sell the hole kit not just the brackets.So I came up with a way to not have brackets fixed to rear axle.What I did was use the cross bar on the voyager as a mount point for the rear. Made a bar to go across the bike frame just in front of the rear tire and put 2 long bolts with rubber bushings down to the cross bar on the voyager frame.This lets it move up and down and keeps it centered on the bike.And by takeing off all that springs,shocks and outher junk you don't need makes it 50 pound s lighter too. Sorry have no pictures of it.Will try to get some soon.It will go down the road and not pull left or right.and it can move up and down with the road and not make rear bike wheel jump off the ground if you hit a bump with the trike wheel.Make sure you put trike wheel center about 1 to 1 1/2 inch back of bike center axle and it will track and turn great.Hope this helps.Have a great ride.

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