Well first welcome to the site from East Tennessee! When I looked at the 09 CVO colors last year on the web, I thought well those are ok. So I thought I would just buy a used UC and paint and upgrade it however I wanted it. THEN it happened, I went into a HD dealer in Dalton to pick up some oil and there it was, up on a spinning turntable with spotlights, the 09 SEUC in Starlight Silver/Twilight Blue. It had so much flake. I knew I would either have to buy one or have one painted like it. At first I did not realize it was a CVO, that just put the cherry on top. So I guess I would have to say I bought because of the color and graphics. The more I thought about it (my wife would say possessed), the more the CVO made sense to me. Saw that bike on a Thursday and when I took my wife there on Sat. They had already sold it. My advice to you would be if you really LOVE the color of the 2010 CVO, go for it, the 1,500 under MSRP is just icing. If you don't love the CVO color wait for the 2011 color release around end of July. There will be plenty of the non CVO bikes around for you to chose from. I probably would have bought the colors that I got even if it had not been a CVO. Good Luck!