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FADBOY

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Re: Saddlebags....2011 CVO
« Reply #30 on: October 08, 2012, 06:57:10 PM »

They are not leather, feel and smell, and I complained about only to be told it was synthetic leather covering for better waterproofing.
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Re: Saddlebags....2011 CVO
« Reply #31 on: October 08, 2012, 07:23:58 PM »

I think the brown seat and bags Are leather.
How can you really tell 100%?
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Re: Saddlebags....2011 CVO
« Reply #32 on: October 09, 2012, 02:42:38 PM »

Don't believe everything you are told.  See for yourself and make your own determination.  Turn the seat over and look at the material.  Some parts, like I said, are what we used to call "naugahyde" (imitation leather).  Butthe top of the saddlebags and the main sitting part of the seats is a good grade of leather.  Stuff that you would be well advised to treat with leather dressing of some sort.  I had a Heritage for 5 years and treated the leather about twice a year and the bags/lids still start currling a bit which is the leather drying and twisting.  I too had to come to grips a number of years ago about some parts aren't true leather but that is the cost-cutting techniques of today.  Plus the techniques they use so the "leather" items retain their shapes. But I would imagine that the techniques are the same for American as well as international models.   
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Re: Saddlebags....2011 CVO
« Reply #33 on: October 09, 2012, 08:02:55 PM »

I think the brown looks good, it's different.
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