Sackville Medium Saddle Bag: Do They come in Black?

Brian Campbell

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Jan 11, 2014, 1:34:15 PM1/11/14

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I saw the website offerings and was wondering if they were or will be available in black?

Tim Gavin

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Jan 11, 2014, 3:13:10 PM1/11/14

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I've never heard of any plans to do black. Green, tan, and tweed are the only colors I've seen.

I bought an Acorn Large Saddlebag in black (from a listmember), and it's really nice. Its design is more like a Carradice than the Sackville "trunk" design, but with "honey" colored leather vice Carradice's white leather on its black bags. The Acorn is built with much higher quality than a Carradice and is MUSA.
However, Acorn's "large" is still only 6 liters. Nowhere near the Sackville Medium's 18 liters.

Tim Gavin

Cedar Rapids, IA

On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Brian Campbell <bdcamp...@gmail.com> wrote:

I saw the website offerings and was wondering if they were or will be available in black?

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Allingham II, Thomas J

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Jan 11, 2014, 9:23:08 PM1/11/14

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They originally came in black only. I have a black Medium and a black Large. Some kind of difficulty with supplies of the black material led to the switch to green.

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hsmitham

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Jan 12, 2014, 2:19:00 AM1/12/14

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Tim,

I have a Carridice saddle bag and an Acorn rando bag and IMO I don't think the Acorn is a higher quality than the Carridice. I'm very impressed with my Carridice. And I'm not denigrating the Acorn quality it's also quite good. I do agree that the Carridice Black with white straps doesn't look as good as the Acorn in black with honey strap though If I wanted a large black saddle bag I'd choose the Camper long flap in a heart beat. Again just my two cents FWIW.

~Hugh

Eric Platt

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Jan 12, 2014, 8:42:21 AM1/12/14

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Seem to remember they were first black. But as Thomas mentioned, there were issues with the fabric. I have a small and a medium and while both are black, they are different shades of black.

The black ones have the number plates attached if I remember correctly.

Eric Platt

St. Paul, MN

Hugh Smitham

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Jan 12, 2014, 9:31:15 PM1/12/14

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Brian,

Came across this image Tom Allinghams black Bombadil with black Sackville.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37542512@N04/11252475855/in/set-72157639619480186/

So the answer is that they did...now the question is whether they will again. I'd give a call to Riv HQ if you haven't already.

~Hugh

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