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Old Sep 8, 2010 | 06:23 PM
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Default Road King/Road King Classic: Is storage capacity basically the same?
I like the looks of the Road King Classic but I'm curious if those leather saddlebags carry about the same amount as the hard plastic saddlebags that are on the regular Road King.

I also read something somewhere that Harley made the hard saddlebags bigger on the 2009 and up models. Apparently, the pre-2009 hard saddlebags aren't quite as big as the more recent ones. Any truth to that?
 
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Old Sep 8, 2010 | 07:42 PM
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For 2009 and up it's not that they're larger but the carrying capacity(weight) is more. As far as the RK and RKC I've heard the RKC's bags are slightly larger than the RK.
 
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Old Sep 8, 2010 | 07:54 PM
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There may be a slight difference in one or the other but I doubt in you'll notice. And...if your wife rides with you there's just never enough room for anything in either bag.
 
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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 12:44 AM
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I have both hard and the stock RKC leather bags, and the hard bags are slightly larger.

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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 02:39 AM
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Dust gets into the leather bags. Not good if you need to transport papers.
 
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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 03:34 AM
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I've got both hard bags and the RKC leather bags for my bike. The hard bags are slightly bigger, but the leather bags flex a little, so sometimes something that won't fit in a hard bag will fit in the leather bag. The difference in capacity is very slight.
 
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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 05:46 AM
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Total capacity of Classic bags = 1.77 cubic feet. Roadking hard bag total capacity = 1.85 cubic feet, so the hard bags are each 4 hundreths of a cubic foot bigger.
 
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Red face .04 " Bigger?
Originally Posted by roadking2000
Total capacity of Classic bags = 1.77 cubic feet. Roadking hard bag total capacity = 1.85 cubic feet, so the hard bags are each 4 hundreths of a cubic foot bigger.
That will allow you to carry several extra pencils, some spare wrigley's gum, possibly a small bottle of aspirin, or some extra coozies.

There ya go.
 
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The pencils would allow him to redo that math, and check his answer this time...
 
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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 09:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Dalbergia
The pencils would allow him to redo that math, and check his answer this time...
Total capacity of bags (plural) = 1.77 and 1.85. Difference of .08 total. Divide that by 2 (two bags) results in .04 per bag .... Where's the discrepancy?
 
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