By a curious coincidence, I have received a reply to my email of 10th January from Al and Julie Jesse about one hour ago. I have copied it below for those who are interested.

Andy

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So sorry for the delay in responding to your e-mails. We have been in the
process of getting our German distributor set up, and wanted to be able to
give you that as an option.

We have designed a new style of box this year. This allows us to give the
same capacity as our 110 liter bags for more bikes. Currently the largest
bags we offer will only fit on the 1150 GS. Our new style will fit on other
GS as well as street bikes. The size is still 110 liters, yet they are
narrower than our current 110 liter boxes. The new boxes will not fit a
helmet, however. The new bags will be lockable as always with no provision
for padlocks.

We should have photos of the new style boxes on the web site by the end of
next week. We will also have photos of the top boxes that we will have
available.

Our mounts are powdercoated steel and are proven sturdy from our customers
stories! The most recent story we've heard is from one customer who ran
into a cement pole - put a slight dent in the box, but knocked over the
pole!

Again, we apologize for any inconvenience our delay in responding may have
caused. Please have a look at our web site again next week, and you should
be able to see the new stuff!

Keep it on 2 wheels!

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Andy