Triumphrat

Redgate

Just curious to know if anyone has put the hard bags on there bike that are available from newspeedmaster if so how were they to put on and do they look as good in person as they do on there website.
Thanks

ladisney

I saw a set on someone else's bike that were painted to match the bike. They look great. He wasn't there to talk with so I didn't get to ask about them.

mag10

I didn't go with the hard bags, but I just put these leather hard mounted bags on my speedy. They are 'badlands' from leathernech Jims. Very roomy

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glp

Hey mag
did u put those Badlands on with east-brackets?
was reading about them on the web site.

How is the reenforcement inside
(don't want to have saggy bags as they age)
:razz:

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mag10

I made my own brackets. But buying the 'easy brackets' probably would have been much easier. The back is pretty stiff. No sagging. It appears to be leather covered plastic on the back.
I used fender washers in the inside of the bag where I attached the back mount.

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uber

I got those hard panniers you mentioned mate. Got them for a 2500-mile trip around Europe. They performed very well indeed, although the rubber seal around the inside tore - must have been due to the constant packing and unpacking.



Mounting them was easy enough. The only hitch was that the brackets aren't designed to be used together with the sissy bar mounting brackets. Not a big problem though, I just used M8 washers to sit in the hole in the sissy bar brackets, and give a flush surface on which to mount the pannier brackets. Once they were on they were solid enough.

I would say that a drop of threadlock on the screws that mount the brackets to the panniers would not have gone amiss, there were a couple of occasions where I had to tighten them on the trip.

Overall though, I was very pleased with them. Rode through a couple of very heavy rainstorms, and all my stuff inside was kept nice & dry!!

HTH :-D