I am looking for saddlebags for my XL1200L and the ones I want require a relocation kit for the rear turn signals. I gotta wonder if most bags require tha kit, why doesn't Harley locate the turns on the fender like the kit does? Could it be all about selling kits? I wonder??

 

I relocated mine to the rear axle.

 

Harley's bags are differant from aftermarket stuff and the relocation kit moves your light back and also makes your taillight stick out like ears when the bags aren't on I'm sure that's why Harley doesn't put the longer light mounts on.

 

Not everyone wants bags and not everyone likes the Harley relocaiton kit.

Here's the one I put on my wife's Sporty http://greatbikegear.com/products/Ea...s/eb-TSDNA.htm

 

If the MoCo did that for us at the factory we would find a reason to move them somewhere else. Its part of making the bike ours, that is why the Honda Fury will be a flop what are people going to do to it to customize it?

 

Honda Fury, a production line chopper?? Dumb.

 

The same thing people do to customize the dumb *** Big Dog choppers...nothing. I don't understand why people buy cookie cutter "choppers", more money than brains I suppose. But thats just me.

 

How big are the bags you are looking at? There are bags out there that don't require moving the turn signals. And personally I don't like the way the relocation kit looks when the bags are not on.

 

this guy did the signal relocation to the axles and made a video. not the best quality but you get the jist........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsvGv4wR4UU