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[spydglide]

Would be an A or B option Spyder.  The spring wire clip and pin retainer make for the quick release.  Also makes them so easy to steal.  Nuts and bolts instead of pin and spring wire means at least you need tools and a couple minutes to steal a saddlebag rather than no minutes and a quick twist or pull.

Just reinforces the reason why they use to hang horse thieves, huh?  Can't ride your scooter anywhere anymore and walk away from it w/o chancing someone taking your GPS, tourpac, or saddlebags if not the whole scooter.  spyder

[Guilty]

Guilty, to make the mount even more secure what about using a carriage bolt from the outside and the nuts on the inside?  That way no outside exposed hardware would have anything on which a tool could turn.

I doubt the longitudinal ribs on the carriage bolt would be large enough to be effective on the mount bracket (the hole on the mount bracket is quite large), otherwise, yes it would work. I used the allen head bolts rather than hex bolts because the allen head bolts take a bit longer to remove and you have to have the saddlebags unlocked and opened to remove them and the allen head bolts are just a bit harder to access with an allen wrench for removal.
I think the hex bolts would be almost as effective as the allen head bolts and the saddlebags would still be very difficult to steal. Using hex bolts instead of allen head bolts would make it easier for the owner to remove the saddlebags since the hex bolt would be easily accessable with a standard wrench.

[Twolanerider]

Just reinforces the reason they use to hang horse theives, huh?  Can't ride your scooter anywhere anymore and walk away from it w/o chancing someone taking your GPS, tourpac, or saddlebags if not the whole scooter.  spyder

There has been a sea change in a generation or so Spyder.  I can remember when something left on a bike was sacrosanct.  People just didn't screw with your stuff.  For whatever reason (good or bad) folks left stuff on your bike alone.

Now not only do entire bikes get stolen, and not only do things on them get messed with, civilians think it's ok to just come up and sit on the damn things just to look cool for a minute.  If I had much hair it'd make me pull it out.

[Gone Fishin']

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Now not only do entire bikes get stolen, and not only do things on them get messed with, civilians think it's ok to just come up and sit on the damn things just to look cool for a minute.  If I had much hair it'd make me pull it out.

That reminded me of a situation I had to, well, accept two years ago. A friend and I were riding from Naples, Italy northbound when we stopped for a quick cappucino in the morning. When we got out of the busy café, just approaching our bikes, a man proceeded to place his approximately five year old son on my SERK, stepped back, took a picture and janked the boy off the bike, all in fifteen seconds. After the initial shock, I had to laugh.
The myth of Harley-Davidson, I guess.

Ride safely,
Louis

[Twolanerider]

That reminded me of a situation I had to, well, accept two years ago. A friend and I were riding from Naples, Italy northbound when we stopped for a quick cappucino in the morning. When we got out of the busy café, just approaching our bikes, a man proceeded to place his approximately five year old son on my SERK, stepped back, took a picture and janked the boy off the bike, all in fifteen seconds. After the initial shock, I had to laugh.
The myth of Harley-Davidson, I guess.

Ride safely,
Louis

You don't know whether to laugh or get really pissed off when things like this happen anymore.  Or both.  Honest to god it's not as if I'd say no if someone asked if they could take their kid's picture on the bike.  But don't just screw with a man's bike without asking.  That's a case where again one might feel the need to make an impolitic (or biologically questionable) suggestion.