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All good points Ted, but if you read what I said, I did advocate buying secondhand as I did - a Metal Mule pannier rack and top rack went to someone for £118 on Ebay recently. Good value for someone. Ebay in Germany used to throw up some good deals as well when the Euro wasa bit weaker.
As with most things in life, I think you get what you pay for - many folks are aware of the guy who is doing a fairly extreme project riding his G650X up to Siberia at the moment, and on his blog, the only problem he has had has been broken luggage racks.
My Givi racks cracked on both sides in Mali on my XTZ750 - I think 20 kg of underpants and food and water bouncing up and down on corrugations all day puts an incredible strain on luggage racks and its not an area I would scrimp on.
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