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Mar 7, 2013 | 02:30 PM

IronHyena

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la rosa rustic saddlebags

i liked them alot. how do you think it will look on a iron?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/LaRosa-Rusti...item257b7dd85f

May 28, 2013 | 04:35 PM

IronHyena

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anyone have bags like this? i seem to not be able to fit them right.
some tips?

bags: http://www.flickr.com/photos/92283071@N03/8871288137/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9228307...n/photostream/

May 28, 2013 | 08:00 PM

JeepnHD

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I have a la rosa rustic finish bag on my iron. love it

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May 29, 2013 | 04:03 AM

boosting1bar

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I have a rustic finish LaRosa on my 48, I think the bag looks a bit too brown on mostly black bikes.

May 29, 2013 | 06:34 AM

DrewBone

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Originally Posted by boosting1bar

I have a rustic finish LaRosa on my 48, I think the bag looks a bit too brown on mostly black bikes.

When I finally boiled it down to a manufacturer of a swingarm bag I liked, La Rosa, I looked at the "rustic black" offerings thinking a worn look would be cool looking but after seeing it in person I too thought it looked way too brown for a "black" bag, so I decided on the normal "black" instead - and I'm happy I did, because it goes real well with my black forkbag [not a La Rosa though]. It wasn't what I had thought a "distressed" bag would look like, and perhaps that's the difference between rustic & distressed, though I'm sure there must be examples out there of each that are a lot closer to real black than a brownish black...

Anyway, a number of months ago I was standing in a local indy shop before I got the La Rosa bag, staring over this rustic black example they had there and I remember thinking to myself..."Hmmmmm...let's see...I could go over it with some black liquid shoe polish and maybe it wouldn't look so bad..." but stopped quickly and [snapping out of it] said to myself, "Hey, wait a minute...they want more $$ for the rustic, so what the hell is the sense of that, paying more for something that I don't want only to then modify it into what I DO want?" I had to apply the brakes and shake it off to avoid this impending impulse buying thing that I always tell everyone else here to avoid, so's not to be a

Patience is a virtue [and also prevents quick decision buying of sometimes pricey items that initially and instantly serve to satisfy an itch but ultimately end up as a kick of reality instead as you see the moths flying out of your wallet!]!

=8^)

May 29, 2013 | 07:15 AM

smoOve

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Like Drew I bought the regular black one, and now after a couple months it's broken in and looks great!

May 29, 2013 | 08:27 AM

Sensei Jim

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It's all up to what you want the bags for. The swing arm bags didn't hold enough for me.( they look good ) And too big of bags look stupid on a sporty( my thoughts only) Hard mount bags make you relocate the turn/brake lights. So I went with throw overs and moved them forward to miss the lights.