ideas for saddle bags on a 2004 dyna
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ideas for saddle bags on a 2004 dyna
A really good friend and riding partner has been trying to come up with the best option for putting bags on his 04 dyna wide glide. Its the model that has the turn signals in the way of where the bags would mount. He has studied doing several things and is about to put a.light bar on the rear and move the signals to the back of the fender. Really dont want to do that because that changes the bike into something else other than a true dyna of the year model. He has found bags that cost a fortune and that wont work as we are just regular bikers.....not carrying around an extra grand to thow at bags. I thought it might be worth bouncing it off the forum for ideas. Anything that we have overlooked would be welcomed. He has also mulled the idea of drilling another hole toward the rear of the sideplates and move them about two inches back. Still that dont seem to be the best idea either. Maybe someone has a.set of reasonably priced bags he could buy that are made for that year.......thanks.in advance.
Ride safe and often.......Mark
Ride safe and often.......Mark
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Just purchased an '04 Wide Glide myself. Was going back and forth about bags too. My final decision is I am not going too. Rear of the bike just looks too good to cover up. Not a fan of moving the blinkers to hang off the sides of license plate to accommodate bags. I opted to use a small sissy bar bag (Fox Creek). Like it so much, I may get one of their small round tool bags too!
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Just purchased an '04 Wide Glide myself. Was going back and forth about bags too. My final decision is I am not going too. Rear of the bike just looks too good to cover up. Not a fan of moving the blinkers to hang off the sides of license plate to accommodate bags. I opted to use a small sissy bar bag (Fox Creek). Like it so much, I may get one of their small round tool bags too!
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Yeah...he has the sissy bar and a bag for it. Were talking traveling farther for longer away times and just the luggage rack is not enough storage. I hate to see him drill holes or install them in a way that screws up the Harley in it....if ya know what im saying...will look at the willie max and see what thier solution is....keep them coming anx thanks.
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A really good friend and riding partner has been trying to come up with the best option for putting bags on his 04 dyna wide glide. Its the model that has the turn signals in the way of where the bags would mount. He has studied doing several things and is about to put a.light bar on the rear and move the signals to the back of the fender. Really dont want to do that because that changes the bike into something else other than a true dyna of the year model.
I use the Willie and Max Revolution bags. I like them a lot, they were reasonably priced (purchased online at Dennis Kirk). Here's the W&M site:
http://www.willieandmax.com/Store/Re...%2cProductName
He has found bags that cost a fortune and that wont work as we are just regular bikers.....not carrying around an extra grand to thow at bags.
He has also mulled the idea of drilling another hole toward the rear of the sideplates and move them about two inches back. Still that dont seem to be the best idea either.
The wires on the FXDWGI are long enough (mine were, at least) to allow you to move the rear turn signals to a point on the tag bracket. Just be careful rerouting. I moved the whole stalk with lights and it's hard to tell it is not a professional job. Since I don't plan to take off my bags (I use them too much for that) I can't see that I'll ever care about the original look of the bike. Even if I did want to move the signals back, with a decent mounting bracket it's really no problem. The whole move is fairly easy, and I think with fabrication time I spent less than 3.5 hours on the project. And I work really slow.
Last edited by doc_cj; 03-14-2012 at 12:03 AM.
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Those are close to the same capacity as the Road King hard bags if I am not mistaken ... if I were to do it all over I would go with those ...