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I received my saddle bags and both brackets today. (I got them via the $1,000 "free" accessories deal going on right now.)
Up front, I gotta say that I am not impressed with the "build" of the saddle bags. They smell like leather, which is nice, but they seem awfully flimsey for the price, which was around $950 for the complete setup with both required brackets.
That said, they look exactly like the saddle bags on a lot of other Honda motorcycles that I have seen, so I think (?) they probably the exact same bags with different mounts customized for the Valkyrie.
I have seen a lot of these bags on bikes that have a lot of miles on them in all sorts of weather conditions so I expect that even though they don't seem to be super high quality they actually are.
I will try to get them installed the next time we have a few days of rain and get some pictures taken during and after the install.
I also received the power port accessory. It has absolutely no instructions with it. I am afraid they want me to cut a hole in the left hand side of the fairing (near the rear of the radiator) to mount this thing. I'm not too sure I want to cut holes in the bike. I will search for the correct mounting method in the meantime.
Up front, I gotta say that I am not impressed with the "build" of the saddle bags. They smell like leather, which is nice, but they seem awfully flimsey for the price, which was around $950 for the complete setup with both required brackets.
That said, they look exactly like the saddle bags on a lot of other Honda motorcycles that I have seen, so I think (?) they probably the exact same bags with different mounts customized for the Valkyrie.
I have seen a lot of these bags on bikes that have a lot of miles on them in all sorts of weather conditions so I expect that even though they don't seem to be super high quality they actually are.
I will try to get them installed the next time we have a few days of rain and get some pictures taken during and after the install.
I also received the power port accessory. It has absolutely no instructions with it. I am afraid they want me to cut a hole in the left hand side of the fairing (near the rear of the radiator) to mount this thing. I'm not too sure I want to cut holes in the bike. I will search for the correct mounting method in the meantime.