Just curious here, can you take a look and see how the latch mechanism lines up? It would seem unlikely that it would line up perfectly and perhaps be a bit off center front to back (or left to right as you look down at it) if it was on the wrong side unless mama Kaw went to the trouble of designing it that way ...and why would they do that? I'm currently hundreds of miles away from my bike or I'd go check myself...anyway if they are lined up OK then I guess you should leave them that way as a conversation starter.
dammit you guys.... you made me go out to the garage again, pick up a set of calipers, and measure them..... argggggggggg
on my recall fitted bag latches, correctly installed on my '08 bags, the dimension from the bottom of the recess the latch assembly sits in, to the edge of the orange latch, is identical on the front and rear measurment.... so it makes no difference on which latch was installed on which bag, as the orange part on mine is dead center of the whole insert part...
with that said, and no '09 bags to compare with, the actual latch mechanism on my '08 sits 1/4" forward of the centerline between the 2 hanger tabs molded into the bag..... but again, I said the actual mechanisms are mirror image and symmetrical parts... so they changed the actual back shell of the bag for the '09?
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weird.
no matter, my bags are pinned anyways...
