1981 650 and Sabblebags??

I've been scratching my head for years trying to figure out a way to make saddlebags work on 1981 650. Its got those hooks that latch under the seat which make the usual under the seat types of saddlebags impossiable.

Any one out there come up with another way to attach saddlebags to this bike?

Steve

 

On my 82 750 Maxim, I put the cutouts for the directionals over the latch holes. I had to move my directionals anyway since I didn't have a lot of room between the bottom of the seat and the top of the pipes as it was and with the directionals in their original position, it just wasn't happening. I also put heat shields on the pipes to keep the bags from resting directly on them.

mikeg

 

MikeG has got the right idea - if you're going to use soft saddlebags on our bikes you need to cut some holes in the strap to correspond to the latches. Either that or throw them over the seat and don't worry about it.

If you use hard bags, it's a non-problem because they have their own supports.

Either way, it requires moving the turn signals to the rear fender somehow. I found the best was a bent bar of metal attached to the license plate bracket with holes for the signals to go in.

 

The typo in the topic of this post made my day.

sabblebags

Now, that's just fun to say!

Thanks!

-c

 

NOw you say that!!!, I jsut spent the day with some aluminum and extending the rear frame area to mount the lights!