Yvonne,

After trying last summer to figure out how to tour with the Savage, I decided that I was better off with a touring MC. I did have a cloth "trunk" and was able to lash on everything I needed for a couple of camping trips, but it's kinda like asking a steer to be a bull - he's thankful for the honor (but he'd much rather have restored what's rightfully his   ) My mechanic put it another way - "you're trying to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse." I agree I took my ST on a 400 mile trip last Saturday, starting temperature was 30 deg F and felt great at the end of the day (only had to fill up once).

Anyway suzuki does make a rack for the Savage (it's around the forum somewhere). It's easy to put on and use there's a lot of trunks around including homemade, but you still need saddle bags, and a windshield and a bigger gas tank etc. etc.

You could get bungies and strap on a milk crate.  

Do you have saddle bag brackets?  That is your answer if you are having trouble with them contacting the bike.  If they are pushed as far back as they will go, are they mounted as low as they can go?  This may mean mounting them under the passenger seat if you haven't done that.  If they still hit the backs of your legs you simply have too large of bags.  Mine are plenty large and I have no problems with them.  Another option you have is a sissybar bag mounted either way.  If you want it on the back though, you may have to buy the shelf attachment made for the Savage.  I think relocating the blinkers is more than you want to mess with.  If you really wanted to do it the only thing I can think of would be to remove the entire sissy bar, blinker setup.  Make a template of the holes underneath.  Then start drilling new one.  Better hope you like it when your done.

my saddlebags are the unniversal type off ebay the fit great they end just a little past the rear seat and never had any problem with clearance of anything

Digger wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:01:

Wow, that's odd to me.  My Suzuki luggage rack has been completely solid and I've had no problems.  I had a trunk from JCWhitney on it for almost quite a while and recently put a .50 cal ammo box on instead.  Eventually, it'll be the Leatherlyke bags.  They're lockable hard bags made to fit the Savage and look like leather bags.  When you install them, you relocate the turn signals but that's part of the kit.  Check out pics of Paladin's bike to see them.

Possibly one of the simplest ways would be to fabricate a higher sissy bar and attach bags to it.

reclamations wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:01:

Actually quite easy.  My saddlebags came with a turn signal relocate kit which was a short piece of angle iron with holes, nuts, bolts, wire, connectors.  The angle iron bolted to the license bracket, the stock signals bolt to the angle iron and the wires slip along the same path as the tail light.  Requires an eight inch stretch which was what the extra wire and conenctors were for.  End result:

Paladin. wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:01:


Neat!  I like this look! Is there a place I can get the turn signal relocation kit (since I already have the bags)?  Or the extra wire (entenders)?  What happens with the hole in the back fender once you relocate them?

I've got a watch on EBay for the saddlebag brackets ($85 retail?  You're kidding, right?) and will nab them next they appear on my radar.