The dangers of soft luggage
Hi,
I used to have light-weight mountain-bike panniers on my XT and had no problems other than scorch marks on the exhaust-side pannier.
Now I ride an old Boxer BMW on which I had the same soft panniers. I firmly believe less-is-more. Less to carry, less to lose. But some greybeards down at the bike club tut-tutted when they saw the soft bags and told me all kinds of horror stories of nasty spills caused by straps etc getting into the rear wheel. It's self evident - don't let anything come loose, but I'd be interested in other people's views on using 'soft' panniers.
cheers
Paul
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