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Old Feb 18, 2008 | 05:30 PM
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Default River Road or Willie&Max saddlebags

I'm looking for any feedback I can get on ether of the two. I would put them over a 06 1200-C, maybe 10 or 15 days out of a year. I'm looking at compact-studded, both about 12 L-10 H-5 D. Both of them sound about the same as far as features and some kind of shape retention. I would like to know if ther is a Quality diference...Thanks.
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Old Feb 18, 2008 | 05:39 PM
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Don't know much about Willie Max but have a set of River Roads which use very seldom ... but they have sufficed well. River road is a synthetic not real leather although most would not know the difference by looking.. they have done good by me and wil tuck in without disturbing the turn signals...

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When I had the Sporty I had Willie and Max compact slanted and studded saddlebags on it and i liked them a lot.
The only bad thing was that right before I traded it in I noticed the stitching in back was coming loose where it was rubbing against the shock. I didn't use any saddlebag supports so it probably would have prevented that if I had used some. Here's what it looked like.

 
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Thanks for the info guys. 'PigInaBlanket' the one you had looks like the one I'm looking at, do you remember what size it was? Im looking at a 12"W by 10"H and 5" deepthe one you had looks a bit bigger in your pic...Thanks.
 
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The kind I had were the SB707S which are 12" wide x 9.5" high x 5.5" deep.
Ilike the looks and quality of their new Revolution series too.
 
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