Stretched Bag Ooops...
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From: Midwest City, OK
Has anyone had any scraping issues with the 4" bags?[/QUOTE]
All the time! I don't know where or how you ride but I scraped mine all the time. As a matter of fact I switched to the Cvo style bag because I tore the crap out of my bags from scraping.
Scrape a bag leaned over doing 80 and see how much of that seat you have to dig out of your a$$. And as for slow riding thru the hills with switch backs and scrape ,scrape and scrape.
All the time! I don't know where or how you ride but I scraped mine all the time. As a matter of fact I switched to the Cvo style bag because I tore the crap out of my bags from scraping.
Scrape a bag leaned over doing 80 and see how much of that seat you have to dig out of your a$$. And as for slow riding thru the hills with switch backs and scrape ,scrape and scrape.
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All the time! I don't know where or how you ride but I scraped mine all the time. As a matter of fact I switched to the Cvo style bag because I tore the crap out of my bags from scraping.
Scrape a bag leaned over doing 80 and see how much of that seat you have to dig out of your a$$. And as for slow riding thru the hills with switch backs and scrape ,scrape and scrape.
Wow. Hmm. Well that seems to solidify it for me. The more I look at the CVO's, the more I like em. They're the exact type of subtle I want for my SG.
Scrape a bag leaned over doing 80 and see how much of that seat you have to dig out of your a$$. And as for slow riding thru the hills with switch backs and scrape ,scrape and scrape.
Wow. Hmm. Well that seems to solidify it for me. The more I look at the CVO's, the more I like em. They're the exact type of subtle I want for my SG.
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From: Midwest City, OK
When your painter paints them measure the inside of your stock bags and cut a few 2x4's to run from side to side. I had to do this when I painted mine cause when I bake them in the booth the inside edge would bow. Learned this from doing my friends bags a while back. After they are mounted for a whle the bow will come out some what.
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From: South Dakota
I prefer the CVO look also. See sig pic.
Mine are the Eastern Performance bags also. I would highly recommend following the advice of cutting 2x4's for the inside of the bags. Mine were pretty bowed when they came back from paint. Now that they've been on a year they're better.
Mine are the Eastern Performance bags also. I would highly recommend following the advice of cutting 2x4's for the inside of the bags. Mine were pretty bowed when they came back from paint. Now that they've been on a year they're better.
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You need to get the bags you like, its your bike.
I like the CVO style bags, in fact I just got a pair off E Bay from Eastern Performance on a auction for 340.00 shipped and Im waiting to get the $ to have them painted. IMO the 4" stretched make the rear end look a little "heavy " to me, and since I scrape my boards every ride the last thing I need is to be grinding the bottom of the bags off, so the CVO style are perfect IMO.
I like the CVO style bags, in fact I just got a pair off E Bay from Eastern Performance on a auction for 340.00 shipped and Im waiting to get the $ to have them painted. IMO the 4" stretched make the rear end look a little "heavy " to me, and since I scrape my boards every ride the last thing I need is to be grinding the bottom of the bags off, so the CVO style are perfect IMO.
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Well, they're at the painter now. The more I've thought about it, the more the CVO's make sense. Also, they have a more... artistic flow to them.
As far as the 2x4 thing, I mentioned it to my painter and he stated that he air dries parts in his booth. No heat, so no need for wood as there's no danger of bowing.
As far as the 2x4 thing, I mentioned it to my painter and he stated that he air dries parts in his booth. No heat, so no need for wood as there's no danger of bowing.