Well, I was dead set on getting myself a set of Corbin bags for my bike. I was going to put in an order soon, and then my central AC went on the house during the hottest time of the year of course. Now, it has cooled off a bit, and I was able to get an AC window unit for the bedroom, but it is going to cost about $1600 to replace the central AC unit. There goes my Corbin bags out the window. Luckly, I have a cousin in the heating/AC business and he is putting the AC in at cost, or I would be looking at more like $3500. Why do you say do we have AC up here in Canada, since we have a fairly short summer.....because it gets pretty steamy up here with the humidity......and my wife wants it.
That being said, I decided to go for a less expensive route for some saddlebags. I need saddlebags for travelling, so I found a set on eBay that look pretty good, are a good size, waterproof, well made, and are a great price as well. They don't have a lock on them, but that should be easy to fix. Now, I just need to build the brackets to put them on. The Honda brackets are ridiculously expensive and look pretty easy to make, so I will make up my own design. I love having projects to do on the bikes.
Here is what the saddlebags look like:
