I too use the Oxford soft panniers with plastic buckles, for a trip to Morocco on an XT600E last Easter. After several days of bouncing around the Atlas mountains the plastic buckles on first one side, then the other, snapped. It wasn't really a problem, as enough of the buckle survived to re-tie the panniers to the bike, but did cause me to backtrack about 5km to find the wayward pannier by the side of the piste!
In the future I'm going to try out the Zega boxes, to see how they compare.
Iain.
'01 XRV750
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