ok I have 6.5 Rockford on my bags now and was running a stereo in the front fairing, well now the front fairing is being removed. So now I am thinking about installing 4 8inch speakers but how would I run them with no stereo and to either Bluetooth or aux cord? I am not good at this radio thing and would four 8inch be better then 4 6 1/2 or 4 6x9. suggestions please and pics.

 

You could run a 3.5mm to RCA cable that would be hooked up straight to rca's on an external amp mounted in your bags and then hooked up to an ipod or phone to play music.

Similar to this

https://www.amazon.com/Mediabridge-3-5mm-Male-2-Male-Adapter/dp/B004YEBK66

 

has anyone ran speakers facing the wheel inside the bags and if so how does that sound and is it worth it?

 

I don't have a fairing on my road king...

What I did was purchased the Soundstream ST4 100db amp for my speakers in the lids. The cool thing about this amp is that it is bluetooth so you can have your phone in your pocket or tank magnet and it will play right through the amp.

I mounted it via industrial velcro at the rear of a a bag. drilled a couple holes in the bag with grommets to run all the wiring through (i.e. power wire from the battery, ground wire from under the seat and remote wire from orange accessory wire in connector behind the battery, speaker wire from the other side). I then used the plastic split loom to wrap the wires in so it looked better and then some adhesive backed ziptie holders run along the inside of the bags to hold the split loom in place.

All in all pretty easy instal.

 

Ryson what kind of speakers do you have in your lids and how many, what brand size and can you hear them clear at 80mph

 

Try the audio section

https://www.hdforums.com/forum/audio-systems-153/

 

Thank you I was at work when posting and it wouldn't let me post