Nomad ADV Rally/ Travel Tower Gas Gas ES 700 2022

 The Nomad navigation tower explained

A solid construction made from 4  mm thick marine grade aluminium panels combined with aircraft grade billet aluminium cross members. Beautifully machined to tight tolerances. Solid connection to headstock with single billet machined clamp, no welding or drilling required. 100% Bolt-on construction, tested under extreme conditions. All fasteners in stainless steel, all aluminium parts anodised in black for extra protection. 

Specifically designed for the new GasGas ES700

It’s an all bolted construction, which means repairs can be made. It’s all aluminium too, with rounded edges to create not only a solid construction but also a safe one in a crash. Carbon Fibre might be the magic word at the moment, and can be very strong when each layer has bonded perfectly to the previous one (which you can’t see from the outside) but in reality it gives a tower which will shatter on impact and becomes a meat processor with it’s sharp serrated edges. And we don’t do ‘brackets designed to bend’ either. Our tower is strong enough for a 100kg person to hang on it, I know as I’ve done it…!
The navigation tower can be used for travel or rally, or both as we have a new quick release system for our rally kit which can hold a Roadbook, Tripy, ICO and/or RNS trip meters. We also have holders for Iritrack and Sentinel professional rally equipment 

​Mounting to the frame
Of course styling is nothing without proper engineering. The clamp with which a navigation tower is mounted to the frame is like the foundation of a house. That’s where it’s all build upon, that has to be able to take the weight of the tower and navigation or rally equipment, it has to be able to withstand the forces put upon it when hammering down a rutted track, and do that day in day out. On the 700 there was an additional challenge: there is very limited room to create a decent footprint. The larger the footprint, the less stress per cm2 you put on the steering head tube. 
And yet we saw clamps which are flimsy, clamps which looked anorexic and that in our opinion would have way too much flex. Imagine what happens when you add extensive navigation or rally equipment to those same points, but now even less supported…

We designed a clamp which clamps to the frame in  2 places without making any change to the headstock itself. A very complicated clamp to make but the end result is what we believe to be the strongest tower mounting clamp available for the GasGas ES700.