Hey,

first, im sorry for not writing much in here in the past months. After my decision to buy a 1998 Honda Transalp 600 alot of stuff happened. I travelled throu the Balkans and Italy on it but very recently came to the conclusion to sell the Transalp and get something WAY more road oriented for the big city. While I can't afford a second bike right now and had some VERY scary moments because of aqua planning/locking front wheels due to overbreaking I decided to get ABS aswell. Boring right?

I just bought a brand new Suzuki SV650x, which will be delivered soon. Since this is the very opposit of a long range bike I still want to travel with it...maybe not for 10.000km but since Im from west of Germany destinations like the south of France, Spain/Portugal, the UK inclusive Isle of Man and Scotland or even Scandinavia are kinda close and for what the Transalp could do offroad (I also got trainings on real MX-Tracks...damn that was exhausting!) I just much rather stayed on pavement anyway. So the Suzuki will do just fine (even tho the riding position will be painful ).
What I need right now are soft panniers that work without a carriage system or spacers and offer enough space for some cloth, the main maintenance stuff and maybe some cooking utensils. Nothing on top tho, because that space is already reserved for my 80L drypack which contains all of my camping gear. Since there already are not that many options (couldn't find any tbh) for that, the tricky parts comes now.

For the upcoming years im kinda 90% sure that I will get a Honda CRF250 Rally (or L) just for offroading, travelling/adventure riding in a more offroad oriented way. Talking about east europe (Poland, Czech etc.), Ireland and Iceland here. So what I'm looking for is soft panniers that I can put on both bikes. I kinda don't wanna buy 2 systems for the 2 bikes. The drypack will fit on the sozia of either the SV650x or the CRF250 Rally (L), so i just need side panniers for the rest of my stuff. Plan B would be a tankbag and a backpack but meh...I don't wanna ride around with a Backpack on my back.
Plan C would be a second drypack (40L) which get rockstrapped in top of the 80L one. Panniers are my preferred option tho