Well, I left my house with my H-D Fat Boy detachable saddlebags, and arrived with only one. had to ride home, get in the SUV, and backtrack my ride in. Only a few miles down the parkway I started to see the remnants of my bag and mounting arm. The arm may be okay with some paint and elbow grease, but the bag is a goner. That bag has been on for weeks, and I checked everything before I left for work. Best I can tell, the spring-lock failed because it is no longer snapping into place.

A few weeks efore that, one of my Auxilliary Lighting Halogen bulbs got whacked and smashed by one of my 3 kids- and yes, the are ALL innocent of course (yeah right).

This past Monday I checked the weather before I left for work, and it said was fog every town all the way to work. It was going to be 83 for the ride home, so I took off my windshield for that wind in your face feeling, but a mile from my house I drove into a light drizzle which turned into rain before I got to work- where it was sunny. 20 miles of rain & fog on the highway= 5 hours drying time for your Levi's.

I can buy the bag alone but if it turns out that I need a new arm I have to buy the whole $850 saddlebag kit. You can buy everything in separate pieces, except for the arms. Because I didn't want to pay full price + labor when I bought the bike in October, Harley won't back the bag- sometimes I really hate H-D.

 

i'm sure someone here can fab a new bracket if you were to give them a good pattern. steve

 

Also keep an eye on ebay. I have detachable bags on my Fatboy too. When I was looking for them, I saw a single bag on ebay a couple different times. I'm guessing somebody went down and took out one bag and was selling the other.

 

maybe time for a new bike...lol
I have easy brackets and never lost them because you cant remove the key unless it is locked

 

easy bracket with keys? which ones you got mounted?

and oh who was that the other day with those removable saddle bags that were so much closer to the frame?

or was that you?

 

no the easy brackets are not that close to the frame but my bags have a flap so they look very close

 

+1 on the easy brackets. I had then on my Vstar. I didn't put them on the Deluxe because the bags go on with two bolts in less than 5 mins.

 

ah I see lol

do you remember the thread that I was refering to regarding quick release saddlebags that were a lot closer to than our systems.

sometimes its so hard to find old threads again