Viking Saddlebags Quick Disconnect System For Indian Scout

These are quality made brackets, however they will not fit the Indian Scout without some fabrication work. First, the supplied mounting spools didn't fit into one of the slots, minor filing took care of that. The main issue though, is that the fender bolts on the Indian Scout, by design, are slightly angled away from each other, so that when you bolt the spools on (with the correct length bolts, 30mm, that you'll have to buy cause they give you a bunch of bolts that don't fit), the spools are not square with the fender sheet metal and not parallel to each other. So you cant mount the bracket. The solution is to take the thinner spacers that are included and grind a bevel on them, and trial and error fit them till the spools wind up parallel. The final issue is that the key lock is nearly impossible to turn. The locking mechanism is an angled metal piece that fits up against the spool, when you turn the key, the metal piece wedges in between the spool and a projection coming off the bracket, locking the bracket in place. Problem is that the metal piece is too thick and it wedges way too tightly between the spool and the bracket. I tried bending the metal piece to no avail and finally had to grind it a bit to make it thinner and allow the key to function smoothly. I don't know, maybe I got a defective set. I was able to make them work, but it took a few hours of my time.

Very good quality/strong construction

Quality number 1

The bracket was easy to attach, along with getting rid of the sag that using only the bolts that came with bags to attach them my bike

Very well made product. Here is something to consider when fabricating these mounts: The spools that come with the brackets and the slots in the brackets, have such tight tolerances that they don't account for the slight radius the spools create when mounted on the bike. They point away from each other ever so slightly that I needed to bend or re-shape the brackets in order for them to fit. I typically fabricate stuff so it came easy for me, but a person without any fabricating knowledge more than likely would have had a difficult time.