Well, Old Woman has solved part of the time problem. She fell and shattered her right hip and just came out of surgery 7 hours ago. There will be some time needed for her healing and I will use that time to build the attachment brackets for the Happy Trails boxes. I have a friend who, unknown by me until now, has a hobby of building roll-cages for dragsters. He said he could easily bend and shape the tubing for my proposed brackets and even make hinge setups for the boxes so they come off easily and the left one will swing to allow access to the gas tank filler cap. Something for others to consider--look for a body shop as most of them do tubing fabrication-bending work. Looks like we have just added 6 more months to our proposed departure. Wayne Langrille at www.Hardcases.com builds some pretty good looking sidecases for bikes that are mostly going to be hiway machines. too small for our purposes, but high quality.
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