I personally like the looks of the upsweep peashooter type cans. The new brackets look like the sure fix for previous problems with broken rear brackets. I wish I had those instead of my (twice repaired, hope it holds up this time,) welded bracket. I'm also going to see about getting an additional x-pipe bracket made and welded on this winter. I'm always reluctant to buy something new and then start modifying it. I've got experience with motorcycles, and common sense but I'd like to think that the people who engineered the x-pipe took into consideration how much stress would be on the mounts at the head and the rear bracket. The weight of the cats is gone, but between those mounting points is a long distance to carry the weight and handle vibration and stress. When my rear bracket had broken the first time this stress caused the factory x-pipe to frame bracket to break. The second time it broke with thee new SBN x-pipe, it did not even have an under frame bracket to break, so all of the stress was transferred to where the header pipe mounts to the head ( other than what support was being carried by the left side bracket). Having that kind of stress at one end of the exhaust could cause problems that I really don't need. I'll try to prevent further grief with my own engineering. I know I'm not alone in this so if someone else has a brilliant fix (other than selling or trading my bike or putting on an exhaust that I don't want) let me know. I'm still riding my OTHER bikes. This one sure looks nice.