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I spent most of the winter looking for some hard side cases for my 1100 and wasn't able to find anything. There was a thread discussing some hard luggage made by SHAD on here a month or two ago, and I ended up discovering these cases as a result of it. They don't have mounting kits for the 1100 (or the pre600 or 750, I don't think), but I looked at their pdf directions for the mounting kits for some of the other bikes and they didn't seem overly complicated to make, so I went ahead and bought the SH-42 sidecases.
It was supposed to be nice all weekend, and I didn't have anything to do for a change, so I figured I'd figure out how the heck I was going to mount these.
The cases have some protrusions on the bottom of them that are used in SHAD's mounting kits as support, although I did it a bit differently in mine than they do. I just measured the protrusions, took a piece of angle aluminum, and cut holes where the protrusions would be, and cut the aluminum down so that it was long enough to use the exhaust mounts as one mounting point. Also, you can see the hook that the bags latch to mounted on the tail lamp support.
The rear turn signals had to be relocated, and while I originally thought I'd have to change to some aftermarket turn signals (potentially some license plate screw mounted ones), I ended up finding a way to relocate the stock turn signals and was able to reuse them.
Also removed the rear reflectors, which suprisingly provided a mounting point in a nearly perfect place for another brace going down to the bottom support, which helps to stabilize the bottom support not only vertically, but horizontally as well, which was my bigger concern at the time.
Same thing on the other side:
And the finished product:
Don't have any shots from the rear of it all put together yet, probably get some tonight.
Nice not having to wear a backpack for a change
It was supposed to be nice all weekend, and I didn't have anything to do for a change, so I figured I'd figure out how the heck I was going to mount these.
The cases have some protrusions on the bottom of them that are used in SHAD's mounting kits as support, although I did it a bit differently in mine than they do. I just measured the protrusions, took a piece of angle aluminum, and cut holes where the protrusions would be, and cut the aluminum down so that it was long enough to use the exhaust mounts as one mounting point. Also, you can see the hook that the bags latch to mounted on the tail lamp support.
The rear turn signals had to be relocated, and while I originally thought I'd have to change to some aftermarket turn signals (potentially some license plate screw mounted ones), I ended up finding a way to relocate the stock turn signals and was able to reuse them.
Also removed the rear reflectors, which suprisingly provided a mounting point in a nearly perfect place for another brace going down to the bottom support, which helps to stabilize the bottom support not only vertically, but horizontally as well, which was my bigger concern at the time.
Same thing on the other side:
And the finished product:
Don't have any shots from the rear of it all put together yet, probably get some tonight.
Nice not having to wear a backpack for a change
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