I had a thought the other night. I have a set of throw over saddlebags that I had on my first bike, the only two problem is that they are 15 inches long so i'd have to relocate my turn signals, and I don't want the bags to get caught in the wheels, and I don't want to leave any brackets on the bike.
So this is what I was thinking...... I already have a detachable sissy bar set up, A new set of detachable side mounts are only 25 bucks. Although a little bending of them may be required if i used them on the opposite sides and upside down I would have a detachable saddle bag bracket. Then I could bolt the bag to the two holes where they would mount to the backrest instead. No big deal if the chrome cracks, I would just clean'em up and paint them black....they'd be behind the bag anyway, and come off when the bags arn't on. Obviously I couldn't use the sissy bar at the same time as the bags. I don't think I would use them a lot but i do like saddle bags better than the sissybar, t-bag look if i just want to carry a couple of things. Think that will work?


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Only one way to find out.
Sounds good though.

 

great idea! take a $20k bike, put on $25 dollar brackets, which are spray painted because of chrome cracking, and hang them upside down. Why doesent everyone do that? Ya know, I knew a guy once who had this chrome stripping to use on a gas tank....

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make sure you bend them out enough to clear the drive belt cover on left side and anything it may hit on right if you bend right side out as much as what it will take to clear the drive belt you should be fine

 

WOW, very disturbing attachment; words escape me...