Street Bob to Road Glide | Cycle Visions Shows You How

11. After tightening everything down and hooking up the rest of the fairing’s components: windshield, headlamp snap ring, etc., the fairing installation was complete at this time. Time to move on to the Baggertail installation.

12. Here are the Cycle Visions lower bags (A), which are made of fiberglass gelcoat, but come raw so they need to be painted. We shot these raw bags a week before our paint set arrived. The Baggertail brackets convert your cruiser into a hard-bagged bagger in a matter of minutes. Available in chrome or black (shown), the kit includes: right and left lower rails (B), left and right saddlebag mounting brackets (C), seat support bracket (D), U-shaped support bracket (E), bag mounting tabs (F), thorough instructions, and hardware.

13. Since the seat was already removed, Brad installed the Baggertail support bracket with the supplied thin spacer on the left.

14. Also, because Brad worked diligently in the beginning replacing the stock turn signals with the Eliminator unit, he was able to install the left saddlebag mounting bracket. Brad planned on running a sissy bar at some point, so he tightened the bracket to the fender strut with Harley’s docking hardware.

15. Next Brad installed the saddlebag bottom rail to the mounting bracket and tightened it down. Notice the U-shaped bracket on the lift (A). It connects the left and right side bag brackets underneath the bottom of the rear fender (arrow).

16. Once the left side bracket was mounted, Brad moved on to mounting the right-side bracket in the same fashion. Here’s another angle of where the U-mounting bracket goes (arrow) on the right side.

18. …mount the painted left and right side bags. Brad test fit the bags to the new brackets before tightening the bracket hardware down. Once everything was up to snuff, the bags were installed and installation was complete.

19. In just about two hours, Brad was able to transform the already cool, blacked-out Street Bob into a rugged Road Glide-esque bagger. The best part: installation was a snap so when he wants to switch back to an around-town cruiser, he won’t have that much to do. Overall, the Cycle Visions Baggertail conversion and Fairing Mount conversion is a great, relatively inexpensive transformation that definitely receives HOT BIKE’s approval.