Luggage option for Gen 2

[Turbo Ghost]

I've been wanting luggage options for my 2015 and stumbled across this site. A friend in Germany says this is an apparently legendary German designer named Friedel Marz. My personal thoughts are to get the mounts and adapt them to my own luggage which is larger than his. He offers three types of luggage. The soft ones just don't look right to me but, someone might like them on their Vmax.
The racks:
273X Saddle bag holder with lock, V-Max 1700 | Vmax Bike

The soft luggage:
274Y Luggage bags Classik, lockable | Vmax Bike

The hard(ish) luggage:
274U Luggage Street, lockable | Vmax Bike

274T Luggage-bags Roadster, lockable | Vmax Bike

 

[marsmax85]

His stuff looks nice !!

 

[Turbo Ghost]

From what I've heard his stuff is all top notch!

 

[LouisCurtis]

That might be drivel to ask but do not berate me for it. I asked it earlier but got no response and I do not want to create a separate thread just for this.
Can we install a sissy bar Yamaha Bolt Battle Axe Motorcycle Sissy Bar With Backrest on a 2009 Vmax?

 

[El Canadiense]

 

[chargerblk]

Nicely done ! The best hard bag solution I have seen that is available.
I bet those pics weren't taken at Bruce Mines at this time of year !
I take it that those are long bolts that fasten C bracket through backrest support
to fender/frame mounts. Did they come with set up from Hepco & Becker ?

 

[mnl119]

I've been wanting luggage options for my 2015 and stumbled across this site. A friend in Germany says this is an apparently legendary German designer named Friedel Marz. My personal thoughts are to get the mounts and adapt them to my own luggage which is larger than his. He offers three types of luggage. The soft ones just don't look right to me but, someone might like them on their Vmax.
The racks:
273X Saddle bag holder with lock, V-Max 1700 | Vmax Bike

The soft luggage:
274Y Luggage bags Classik, lockable | Vmax Bike

The hard(ish) luggage:
274U Luggage Street, lockable | Vmax Bike

274T Luggage-bags Roadster, lockable | Vmax Bike

Looks like a nice rack, but you will likely have clearance issues with the exhaust and blinkers for anything but the smallest bags.

 

[Jaketheone46]

Wow this is awesome!!! I’ve not been able to find anything storage wise for my vmax. I have nowhere to put anything. At least on my sport bikes I have a spot under the seat plus the tank is steel so I keep a magnetic tank bag. All I’ve had on my max so far is my own pockets. lol
Are there any pics of these actually mounted on the bike?? I would want the smallest most sporty looking of the 3 sets. Or like the OP mentioned just buying the mounting system and finding my own. Does anyone else have other links for vmax 1700 storage??

 

[mnl119]

Wow this is awesome!!! I’ve not been able to find anything storage wise for my vmax. I have nowhere to put anything. At least on my sport bikes I have a spot under the seat plus the tank is steel so I keep a magnetic tank bag. All I’ve had on my max so far is my own pockets. lol
Are there any pics of these actually mounted on the bike?? I would want the smallest most sporty looking of the 3 sets. Or like the OP mentioned just buying the mounting system and finding my own. Does anyone else have other links for vmax 1700 storage??

It can be done if you are patient and creative.

 

[LouisCurtis]

It can be done if you are patient and creative.

is that the Bolt Sissy Bars - Motorcycle Sissy Bars for Yamaha Bolt - Viking Bags Just to know before ordering one. Is that a DIY project? have you drilled extra holes?

 

[mnl119]

They are viking bags that say they are for the VLX600. The brackets were my own creation from brackets found at Lowes Hardware. I wrote a post about my experience here:

https://www.vmaxforum.net/threads/w...-my-luggage-solution.51714/page-2#post-521723

 

[D Larson]

It can be done if you are patient and creative.

What is under the car cover?

 

[mnl119]

What is under the car cover?

2015 Corvette z06/z07. 11k miles.

 

[D Larson]

2015 Corvette z06/z07. 11k miles.

Very nice.
I park a 2019 Grandsport next to the VMAX.

 

[mnl119]

Very nice.
I park a 2019 Grandsport next to the VMAX.

Yeah, they call mine a "waxer."

 

[Jim Bitolas]

I went with SHAD hard luggage !!

 

[El Canadiense]

I went with SHAD hard luggage !!

Nice job mounting those bags Jim, looks perfect. What size are the bags?

 

[Jim Bitolas]

Nice job mounting those bags Jim, looks perfect. What size are the bags?

They come in various sizes even to fit a full face helmet,
but i choose the SH23 liters that gives me the ability to filter between cars

 

[Jerry Klay]

They come in various sizes even to fit a full face helmet,
but i choose the SH23 liters that gives me the ability to filter between cars

Hey Jim I have a set of Shad bags here that I never got around to designing a GEN2 mounting. Can you give me some pics & input what you did to mount the bags. Would you do some things different?

This has been such an issue for everyone that I'd like to make a "Kit" available for everyone on here. I have some great contacts and friends in the sheet metal & CNC business that I have worked with for 20 years to work with to make parts. And, spent a good chunk of my life doing designs and mechanical drawings.

 

[D Larson]

Hey Jim I have a set of Shad bags here that I never got around to designing a GEN2 mounting. Can you give me some pics & input what you did to mount the bags. Would you do some things different?

This has been such an issue for everyone that I'd like to make a "Kit" available for everyone on here. I have some great contacts and friends in the sheet metal & CNC business that I have worked with for 20 years to work with to make parts. And, spent a good chunk of my life doing designs and mechanical drawings.

Count me in for a kit