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Originally Posted by Thermal
so I have since made a couple of short straps out of nylon webbing, each strap has 2 parts connected by one of those nylon snap buckles you can find in a sporting goods store among the backpacking gear. One end is connected via the screw going into one of the footman loops on the lid, the other I attached on the inside of the case with a screw going through the side.
Now, if the lid comes lose it will just flail around in the wind and I can pull over to fix it, but if I want to remove it completely I only need to unsnap the buckle.
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 What is the point of having a completely detachable lid anyway? I fail to see the advantage of being able to take the whole lid off. :confused1:
Perhaps hinged pannier lids ie. Not Zega and Touratech products will be more carefully considered given this thread and people who at times forget to secure their pannier lids with staps and padlocks!
I know if I didn't have a lid fixed (by hinges) to my boxes I would be riding around with alu panniers full of water since Bangkok.
(insert plug for Hepco&Becker here)
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