I couldn't bring myself to spending hundreds of dollars on some of the nice hard bags setup I've seen here.
For yrs my Nelson's soft side bags did fine. My three negative complaints on soft side are, the hassle of dealing with the strap for securing it to the bike. The exterior material will retain water when riding in the rain and will leak (during heavy rainfall) water inside if you don't use the rain covers.
My three piece homemade hard bag setup cost less the $200 total. The bag mounts are locked to the bike when the rear speed hump is mounted. How does this work you ask. Well, each side bag mount has a support arm that connects to the rear grab rail and is secured using a stainless steel thumbscrew. The other exterior mounting arms are secured with stainless steel to the underside (reinforced fabricated mount), and with two 2 inch black plastic thumb screws that screw into a special connector I made that screws into the Busa OEM bungee cord tie down mount.
I bent some steel, drilled and tap some holes in the support arms and here I am. So an innovative caveman can do it.
For yrs my Nelson's soft side bags did fine. My three negative complaints on soft side are, the hassle of dealing with the strap for securing it to the bike. The exterior material will retain water when riding in the rain and will leak (during heavy rainfall) water inside if you don't use the rain covers.
My three piece homemade hard bag setup cost less the $200 total. The bag mounts are locked to the bike when the rear speed hump is mounted. How does this work you ask. Well, each side bag mount has a support arm that connects to the rear grab rail and is secured using a stainless steel thumbscrew. The other exterior mounting arms are secured with stainless steel to the underside (reinforced fabricated mount), and with two 2 inch black plastic thumb screws that screw into a special connector I made that screws into the Busa OEM bungee cord tie down mount.
I bent some steel, drilled and tap some holes in the support arms and here I am. So an innovative caveman can do it.