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I used to have a KTM 950 Adventure which came with Gobi panniers. I only used them for European work so it's hard to know how they'd have fared in a crash. I suspect the actual panniers would have held up well, but that they'd have been ripped off as the fittings look a bit flimsy.

I don't really have an adventure tourer bike now unless you count my Buell Ulysses which I only use for ripping round the Algarve where I live. The Gobis would fit on the Buell, but I don't have the frames, and I've gone off panniers. They make the bike so wide.

My main bike is a Suzuki B-King which I use on any long-distance run (e.g. back to England). I have a Gobi top case which I really rate, an 8L Wolfman tail pack sitting in front of the Gobi (I use the pack for transporting my Almax security chain) and a Baglux tank bag (I wouldn't recommend Bagluz stuff to anyone. The zips on the smaller tang bags are flimsy things and fail in the end. I've gone through two).

Not exactly adventure touring but what the hell.

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...after seeing my plastic Vario panniers explode on a minor fall from which I walked away, the message was pretty clear to me: SOFT LUGGAGE.
Have to say I have never looked back. Versatile, light, water proof, does not dent, even secure with a pack safe cable. Don't understand the love for aluminium :-)
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...after seeing my plastic Vario panniers explode on a minor fall from which I walked away, the message was pretty clear to me: SOFT LUGGAGE.
Have to say I have never looked back. Versatile, light, water proof, does not dent, even secure with a pack safe cable. Don't understand the love for aluminium :-)
I went arse up off my wife's bike with soft panniers & destroyed a $2500 MacBook Pro & also a $2000 canon lens. !!!!!

I'll stay in love with Aluminium !!! (But I don't like Plastic)

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I went arse up off my wife's bike with soft panniers & destroyed a $2500 MacBook Pro & also a $2000 canon lens. !!!!!

I'll stay in love with Aluminium !!! (But I don't like Plastic)

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You can't blame your panniers because you put fragile items in them..

Stuff like that should ways be kept up top. Tankbag, seat bag, back box etc

Soft panniers are for clothes, sleeping bag, waterproofs etc. Stuff people generally don't want to pinch.
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Aluminum panniers destroyed our iPod.

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Mine are going in the bin when i get back!
Id love to repair them if you dont want them anymore :-)
To cross africa i mady my own panniers für just 30 Euro and they worked fine: http://reisemotorrad.eu/?report=seitenkoffer
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