The color match to the bike's stock paint is about as perfect as you'd want.  Unfortunately, the digital pictures do not capture the paint's cream color accurately on either the bike or the bags but the color is somewhat close in some of the pics.  The ARM color is a perfect match, down to the metal flake.  Pinstriping matches the stock exactly.  The inside of the bags are finished with a felt-like material much like a car's trunk.  The only drawback to the construction is the lack of a hinge on the top.  The hardware on the front of the lid provides a secure attachment for the lid in case you forget to latch down the back.  The latch has a simple lock and key.

Mounting took a little longer than I expected, about 5 hours in total.  This included taking my existing softbags and supports off and making a hardware store run to get 4 stainless 8x50mm bolts which the old supports had consumed.  There's a little bit of filing on bracket tab holes to get the hard paint removed in the bolt slots and a mandatory hole to be drilled through the bottom of the bags to fit the rear-end polished stainless support that you see under my rear fender.  EXTREMELY solid mounting system.  The bag is bolted through its side to a big sheet of 3/16" aluminum.

There was, unfortunately, a quality control problem on one of the mounting brackets.  These things have to be welded near perfectly to get them to fit.  One bracket was just a couple degrees and millimeters off in the way some tabs were welded, just enough so that the bracket could not fit properly to the attachment points on the bike.  Not having a welding outfit handy by, there was nothing I could do.  So I called Champion.

They were very surprised at the problem and sent a new part out overnight express, plus they were very very interested in getting the bad part back so that they could see exactly what the problem was and fix it in production.  So, not a bad outcome, ultimately.  I held up the replacement bracket (which fit perfectly) to the bad bracket and I was hard pressed to see the difference between the two.

My rating would be excellent if the quality control problem on the bracket had not occurred.  So I have to give a very good.  Plus a "+" because they took care of the problem immediately and without hassle.