soft panniers

Going to France with girlfriend pillion.

Bike is an SV1000S (standard twin exhausts).

Current plan is a small rucksack each or a large ruck sack carried by girlfriend.

Thinking of soft panniers but need a solid recommendation or a warning to stay clear otherwise we'll stick with the rucksacks.

Thanks

id either get a big ruc sac for the other half (im lazy) and panniers,

i got a set of oxford panniers, cant really go wrong with em,
there not waterproof though, i dont think any panniers are (even though they say there waterproof), so put all your stuff in a black binliner.

You can't really go wrong with Oxford panniers. You should be able to pick up a set of their '1st Time' panniers for about £30 to £40.

[mattSV]

I've got Oxford humpback panniers on my SV1000.

They need to be mounted right at the back of the seat if you are taking a pillion, as they are a bit close to the pillion pegs otherwise.

I've got a hamicad tail tidy ,and found that mounting them quite high is best to avoid fouling the indicators.

We are off to Devon for a few days on Sunday, so I will probably put the panniers on tomorrow - I'll stick some pictures up if you like so you can see what they are like.

HTH

Matt

I've got the Oxford panniers

They're pretty good, zip out to expand to twice the original capacity - see pic below - that's with the waterproof cover on



on the thou I didn't notice them at all except one or twice in a cross wind on the motorway, when I was sitting just below the ton

might have clipped a few door mirrors when filtering

When are you going - I might be able to lend them to you

The Oxford Sport panniers were OK on the 130 miles to the AR, fit them tight and use the webex stuff to stop marking the side paintwork. Oh and put tape or something at the edge of the grab rail, that was the only bit that got scratched on mine.

The ones I got look very daft expanded, Anna tried them like that on the ride up to the AR , they looked daft and affected the handling of the bike badly, not as bad at 'normal' size.

Hmmm i was going to look into some of these in the next month or so, the oxford ones you have mr. toad seem alright. How much you pay for them?

Im about to head back home from a week up here in shrewsbury and got to take alot of stuff back... its going ot be a case of stuffing as much stuff into my small tank bag, having a big rucksack and as much stuff as I can get under a bungy net on the back.... should be fun.

Main reason I have so much stuff is I never had the bike when I came up here and I had just come back from 2 weeks in Hungary / Serbia plus ive brought more stuff for the bike while here.

+1 for Oxford here, got a set of the humpback panniers and they've done ok so far, but as others have said, put everything in binbags inside them - the 'waterproof' covers don't do a great job.

What I do is put my stuff in the water proof cover and then put that inside the pannier. This has kept everything dry on a few rainy rides

[anna]

Oxford ones as already stated.. they were fantastic but when fully expanded made the bike handle like a bit of a bucket....


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