That is absolutely a possibility - I'll let you know how it works out. I got an email back from the French guy so we'll see how that pans out, and I've been sending out a ton of emails to motorcycle scrap yards looking for replacement lids - I'd really rather avoid the molding thing if I can!

My sort of tentative plan, if I *do* end up going down the molding route is to take a mold of the inside of the lid and basically build on top of that so that (in theory) it will fit perfectly down on top of the bag, and then I can do whatever to the top of it. Which means the speakers and their positioning, etc, would be unique to each one. I still could be willing to do a second set, so that the molds get used more than once... but that really depends on a lot of things... How the first set comes out, how much work it really ends up being, if I even decide to go through the trouble... We'll see!!

I really like the customization options that would provide though. For example, in addition to speakers, I was toying with the idea of molding in solar panels to the tops of the lids, back from the speakers... Provide a little trickle charge and extra boost to the battery maybe, or have it set up to run power to a cell phone charger while the bike is off or... something along those lines.

Safe to say, "stock" has never really been my thing. Although I *do* like to hold on to as much of the stock stuff as possible, just in case...