Originally I was going to go with the 30cal cans. Go for it.
I may also buy some 30cal cans and do the same thing with them....all I would have to do it unbolt the 50s off of my brackets and bolts the 30s on if I wanted to change it up....5 minute job.

Yeah the Easy Brackets are bad ***....you could bolt anything up to them really....hard bags, soft bags, cans, or anything else you could think of.
They have the most solid mounting system I've seen with the hardware going on the bike being stainless steel. They won't move. Plus they lock, which is a bonus.

 

Hell I don't know either man, lol
going to do some experimenting & see what ends up looking right. I'll probably end up doing whatever mood I'm in on the day I decide to do it, lol

 

Other then the green it looks great. I would def spray it with a textured black. I'm going to look into those brackets. I want to do the same thing but have it detachable so I can use then on just long trips.

 

This is some serious ingenuity, I'll be looking into trying those out this summer. Cheap and useful, sounds like a deal to me.

Great looking bike, i'm sure you'll make em fit the bike after some trial and not too much error.

 

I did the same thing last year, needed something to carry some smaller thing. I did cut out the shock and reweld it though.

 

And they are a perfect fit for the theme of your bike.

 

Great ideal. I think wrinkle black power coat would be the way to go.
Easy to touch-up if they get scratched. Over time the powered coat would hold up better than paint.
Thinking the orange would be a pain to match + would cost way more to do.
Sometimes glossy paint doesn't look right on wavily metal surfaces.

 

Ok, so I ended up coating them with truck bed liner coating. I prepped them really well, and used the Rustoleum truck bed coating in the rattle can and took my time. I can say I'm pretty damned happy with how it turned out. Hard to tell from the pics, because they don't do them justice, but the coating almost exactly matches the primary/engine case coating, which also matches the coating on the Easy Brackets.

I did end up removing the handles....they were being a pain in the *** while I was trying to apply the coating, and I knew they would rattle anyway, so I cut them off.

I may buy a set of .30cal cans and coat them the same way and have another option if I want to put the small ones on.

I used stainless bolts to attach the cans to the brackets, so I'll never have a corrosion issue there, or with the cans.

I have about $190 in the whole setup.

The brackets lock, so nobody is going to steal them. I can have them both on & off in less than 15 seconds. I may have finally found a setup for carrying small **** that I like. Cheap, functional, water tight, and I think they look descent.

On a side note....I bought the brackets with the longer bolts so I could also install HD quick detach hardware in the process. I don't have a sissy bar right now, but I will at some point. This also serves another purpose for me....moves them farther away from the bike, and allows for more shock clearance. I also mounted the cans to the rear of the brackets instead of centered for the same reason...extra clearance.

 

I did a similar set up using ghost brackets I picked up from a forum sale. I like the look of ammo cans, inexpensive, durable....they do rattle a lot but I do not mind.

 

Can you get the half of the brackets that are attached to the bags? Seems like it would be the easy way to go for different bags. You could switch between your saddle bags and saddle cans super easy that way.......