What do you all think of my luggage solution?

[Jasoa99]

Here are pics of the Viking bags brackets with extreme strength m8 partially threaded bolts, 15 mm spacers, hard rubber washers inside, waterproof washers outside. All from McMaster-carr.

 

[mnl119]

Here are pics of the Viking bags brackets with extreme strength m8 partially threaded bolts, 15 mm spacers, hard rubber washers inside, waterproof washers outside. All from McMaster-carr.

Wow. That is an elegant solution. A lot of what I did was guided by the bags I bought. I just liked the look of leather (or whatever material mine are made of) and kinda went from there. I tried numerous bag stays... universal, other applications that I modified to fit the bolt spacing... I was just never happy with the stiffness until I just started from scratch.

Like another poster said, I should probably do a bracket in the rear. The license plate bracket reflectors could be a mount point for this, but I'm happy enough with what I've got so it's time to just enjoy it.