I'm thinking about picking up a Giant Loop Coyote and Fandango and was curious about where people are anchoring the straps. This is for my TE630. I contacted Giant Loop with some questions about heat shields and they gave me one guy's example. I'm not sure who this is, but here you go... In the first photo, the bags are unstrapped, but you can follow the dirt trail to the anchor point on the right side. On the left side, he has it anchored to a heat shield mount. I was thinking I could do something similar, use the passenger peg mounting points, or the passenger peg brackets themselves. I'd rather not put the passenger pegs back on my bike if I can help it.
I bought those bags, and have the same problem, figuring out what to strap them to. I took my pegs off, but am thinking of using them as well. I figured I would deal with it right before a trip, but it would be nice to have the tank bag on now, as riding season is upon us here.
If you use the just the mount (that u shaped thing formed to fit the frame tube) from your rear peg bracket and a piece of flat bar with a couple of holes you can fashion a wide variety of attachments on the subframe tube.
That's what I'm thinking. Except the left side might pose some problems. The straps would have to snake through the shock reservoir and exhaust to get to the subframe. I'm buying them for a long trip that's coming up. I'm thinking it might be best to put the passenger pegs back on for the trip. You never know when a buddy might need a ride, huh?
For the tank bag, the right side running down as in the first picture worked best for me. Left side, I run it like in the pic and it loops through the hole in the frame. Run the strap down under the side panel and through the hole in the frame just in front of the rear shock. Works great. Just tuck the extra strap underneath the bag. https://picasaweb.google.com/OlympicForestRideJune2008/OBDR3PlusSept15192010#5519493796657452738
