Aluminium, plastic or soft panniers
I know there are previous threads on this but I have more specific enquiries. I'm leaving Ireland for Morocco next week and possibly trans-Sahara to Senegal and need panniers. I'm on a Transalp 650. I was under the impression that aluminium was best but here's my current thinking. Please advise.
My concerns are durability if/when I fall and security.
I know that aluminium is harder to break into but I'm thinking that I'll have to leave them on the bike. That will mean carting everythiing out of the boxes every night and back in the next day and still worrying about the panniers getting robbed at night (I'll be staying in towns/hostels at least some of the time). And when I'm based in towns I'll have to leave them on when I want to beat traffic through town. I'm thinking that the Givi panniers can just be clipped off and brought inside making life easy.
BUT I woiuld have assumed that Givi plastic would crack easily with a fall but another thread says they're les likely to break than aluminium. Any experience?
There is soft luggage but isn't water going to penetrate them and they can never be left on the bike unwatched and will be awkward to carry around?
Based on all of tht I'm leaning towards Givi plastic. Am I right?
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