I think you're right, Keith.

I figured out that I even can strap a small Army duffle bag onto each saddle bag as well!

René

 

With your tour pack, it looks like you will be riding an easy chair down the road. Hope you have a great trip and we will follow on line.

 

Arrived back home from my 9 days French Alps Tour last Thuesday August 24-2010. Total distance 3.900km (2.423 miles).

My 2003 FXD performed great and I haven't had any troubles at all. The last lap I did a little over 1.000 km (630 miles) in 15 hours.

Here's how I loaded the bike using the chopped tour trunk, the FXDP hard bags and two small duffle bags:









Before I left, I had to make some adjustments in order to properly fit the hardbags to my frame:

spacer for the left hand side mounting bracket





FXR passenger footrest support bracket:





Adapter plate for the rght hand side mounting bracket:





Rear support bracket (for the inside of the rear fender just above the tail-light)

 

Due to Photobucket's policy I had to fix some broken image links in here...

 

Thanks