Kinda sorta home-made saddle bags

That looks SICK! Very original.
Custom points for sure!

That looks awesome!

Those look frickin awesome. Nice job

Cool, you worked it all out. I still think ammo bags would be cool with a military theme. Slanting them would probably be a PITA? Nice job, did they come out as strong as you wanted them?

The cans themselves with the brackets welded to them seem sturdy as can be. Going down the road, though, it seemed like the 8mm bolts themselves were flexing. Hard to keep an eye on it going down the freeway, but it seemed like the bottom of the cans were swinging 1/2" or so. Heavy bastards. I wound up taking some 1" flat bar and bolting it between the cans and the passenger heel guards. Haven't ridden it yet. Hope they're a bit stiffer. Though when I rode it back into the driveway after my photo op, the bolt for the left bottom **** near took out the belt gaurd. I had the take off the top half of the belt guard until I figure something out..

Thanks for the help along the way, SJ.

I did learn that painting and welding are not among my skills. Though with enough paint on top of them, my welds looked a lot better. And I lucked out; most of the runs in the paint are on the back side of the cans...

Well a tip from a weld inspector (on boilers) and a person who has done R stamp welds. On a piece that looks ugly that is not under pressure, use a grinding wheel and body filler to make it look like a machine.

I award you 1000 points for originality, handiness, practicality, and overall awesomeness. I deduct 30 for aesthetics I can really appreciate the thought and work that went into this. But the boxiness doesn't fit the curvess of the bike at all.

But I'm the kind to choose form over function. That's just me

It's not ideal, I'll grant you. This project started because my cheapo throw-overs were falling apart and scuffing my paint, and I really wanted hard bags. Two problems, though; I'm kinda broke right now and I really down like the plastic tub look of most of the hard bags I've seen, or the angles for that matter...

So the idea was, this would be cheap and easy, and I actually like the look a little better than most of the other setups I've seen. Too bad it turned out not so cheap. I think I wound up spending about $120 on this project, and probably a solid 18 hours of work over a couple weeks.. Still, a temporary deal until I find something I really like and I have some extra duckets to spend on it.

That is definatly custom and an awesome idea. To bad you already have the V&H on.. you could always run with something like this..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI9Qow-EZWw to keep the military theme going.

UrbanRage said:

That is definatly custom and an awesome idea. To bad you already have the V&H on.. you could always run with something like this..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI9Qow-EZWw to keep the military theme going.

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Those won't really go with my Stryker, but if I had the money I would buy a bike just to build around those.

ace_pilot said:

UrbanRage said:

That is definatly custom and an awesome idea. To bad you already have the V&H on.. you could always run with something like this..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI9Qow-EZWw to keep the military theme going.

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Those won't really go with my Stryker, but if I had the money I would buy a bike just to build around those.

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Here is a black slip on..lol.. http://www.tailgunnerexhaust.com/rotary-cannon-detail08.php?id=7

Those look great!

UrbanRage said:

ace_pilot said:

UrbanRage said:

That is definatly custom and an awesome idea. To bad you already have the V&H on.. you could always run with something like this..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI9Qow-EZWw to keep the military theme going.

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Those won't really go with my Stryker, but if I had the money I would buy a bike just to build around those.

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Here is a black slip on..lol.. http://www.tailgunnerexhaust.com/rotary-cannon-detail08.php?id=7

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Forget the bag.....and go with these........

The_Joker said:

UrbanRage said:

ace_pilot said:

UrbanRage said:

That is definatly custom and an awesome idea. To bad you already have the V&H on.. you could always run with something like this..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI9Qow-EZWw to keep the military theme going.

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Those won't really go with my Stryker, but if I had the money I would buy a bike just to build around those.

Click to expand...

Here is a black slip on..lol.. http://www.tailgunnerexhaust.com/rotary-cannon-detail08.php?id=7

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Forget the bag.....and go with these........

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Looks reasonable. The extra weight should help handling in the twisties I'm sure.

kraaazymike said:

I award you 1000 points for originality, handiness, practicality, and overall awesomeness. I deduct 30 for aesthetics I can really appreciate the thought and work that went into this. But the boxiness doesn't fit the curvess of the bike at all.

But I'm the kind to choose form over function. That's just me

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ditto

i am getting ready to put some on mine. i have the green bullet cowl and everyone says it looks military so they should look very nice. i am going with the .50 cal thought i like the look better and i have a trunk bag so storage is not as big of issue. i have the cans just need to get the brackets cut out and tapped. ill post some pics when shes done.

Awesome. Looks good...little too much for me but I do like the idea! GOOD JOB!