Hard Bags

[DiverRay]

As for the boxes in the photo....
Just back from the UK for work. I met up with Brian from the UK forum, and he had one of the rear boxes in the packing box. It had about one month worth of use, and was junk!! He had to remove it, as the structure was cracked just from opening the top!
BEWARE OF CHEAP PRICES !!!!!
JMHO

[van]

Originally posted by DiverRay
As for the boxes in the photo....
Just back from the UK for work. I met up with Brian from the UK forum, and he had one of the rear boxes in the packing box. It had about one month worth of use, and was junk!! He had to remove it, as the structure was cracked just from opening the top!
BEWARE OF CHEAP PRICES !!!!!
JMHO

OK, how about this?
http://www.classiccruiser.com/products/product69614.asp

[D. P. Larmee]

I definitely agree with staying away from cheap bags. They just don't hold up to the constant bouncing and vibrating. I have tried a few cheap bags in the past. At one point I even rigged up a set of sampsonite suitcases with brackets that consisted of two peices of flat bar sandwiching the suitcase side. It held up for a few thousand miles, but eventually pulled through. My experience has been that if the bags mount through a hole on the side of the bag, it is just a matter of time before it falls off. It seems that the best designs either have a bolt on frame that cradles the bag or a structural peice that mates to a frame side bracket.

[planedick]

It's the mount...

I have some cheap fibreglass hard bags with lights that I got on E-bay for 50 bucks and I had to make my own mounts. I have several thousand miles on them with no problems. I made the mount out of 4130 flat stock 1" wide and 1/4" thick and the upper part mounts on the rubber where the turn signals mount and the lower part has a aluminum leg that attaches behind the passenger foot peg.