I'd go with the Easy Brackets, Yogi. When you have them off the bike looks relatively stock, w/o ugly brackets. But if you need to take a trip you can attach the bags for carrying stuff. My experience has been on a trip, practical is what counts, but for cruisin you can take the bags off and have a clean cool stock bike.

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