Well, when I got my new rear tire, I had to take off my prior set of saddlebag supports and decided that new brackets would be nice.
So I worked up a couple of designs, and came up with something. Luckily, I have metal available through my work, and the ability to bend it.
This is 14 gauge steel: (The bends are 90° although they don't look it)
Taped up the fender, drew a line around the side bracket, to mock up and get it fit.
Found these fasteners at a local boating store. They are exactly what my bags attached to the yoke with. (Expensive little boogers though, $2.00 each, hubby and mine together needed 16 of them!)
Lined everything up and started drilling holes to attach the fasteners
Needed something on the bottom to hook the lower saddlebag strap, so I added this piece of round rod (hacked from my old supports)
Getting it welded up today and hopefully will be painted today too. Notice the slit on the bracket for the right side? Its for the helmet lock. I unscrewed the lock, but didn't realize the back plate of the lock was welded to the side bracket. Instead of cutting it off (ruin it for future) we cut a slit in the new bracket for it to go through. So now if I ever take these off, or ever want to use the helmet lock, I still can.
Will add some pics when its done. Anybody see any issues?