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Originally Posted by big ben
so guys we have talked about this and the answer is soft or hard?
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A russian guy I know who has ridden around the world once summarised this debate .... not saying I agree with him - at least not to this degree ... but his quote was simple and catchy:
"The pros use soft bags, the amateurs use metal boxes."
My experience is probably more like ... the experienced increasingly use soft bags, while the inexperienced are more likely to begin using metal boxes. i.e. There are many who started with metal boxes who switch to soft bags as they get more experienced. Many of the guys posting in this thread advocating soft bags are guys who began touring with metal boxes. They converted.
In the other direction, there are very few who switch from soft bags to metal boxes as they get more experienced.
There are experienced riders out there who still ride with metal boxes. But in most of those cases, its guys (or girls) who have never tried doing a long trip with soft bags.
Its an emotional debate ... and I will probably be flamed for having a pretty strong opinion on it. But I think I have enough experience to justify a strong opinion.
There are many threads on this site covering this ongoing debate of soft vs hard
It may be worth your while to search them if you have doubts, read the opinions of others, and draw your own conclusions.
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