Hello
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Originally Posted by mollydog
Wow! Your Alu cases are really beat up! Did you have them repaired while on the road? The repair looks pretty good, but that is something I would not want to deal with when traveling.
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A Roo commited suicid on my bike.
90 Km/h to 0 on the roughest Aussie tarmac.
Panniers were strapped to the bike so they could absorb all the energy.
With softbags my leg would have had to do that. Don't think I still had my leg with softbags.
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score?
Amazing how aluminum can be bent back. No way with ripped apart soft fabrics.
Fixed with duct tape and later repaired in Chang Mai.
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Originally Posted by mollydog
Soft bags are lighter because they are not made of METAL and do not use steel racks and brackets. Some soft bags need NO RACK at all. Yes, we see them off road but they work OK on road too.
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With softbags you need more selfcontrol on the things you take with you.
Main reason why it gets lighter.
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Originally Posted by mollydog
You never see soft bags in your travels? I know why~
NO PLACE TO PUT STICKERS ON SOFT BAGS! 
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I did not meet anyone doing a trip longer than a few months with softbags.
Last year I saw softbags repaired with dental floss after only 2 weeks riding Iceland.
On my two wintertrips to Norway and Sweden I had lots of problems with the plastic of the saddle and dufflebags, it just broke at -20°C, aluminum was fine, just use gloves.
Only sticker on my boxes is the CH.
sushi
Last edited by sushi2831; 31 Jul 2017 at 20:14.
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