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- From: datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild)
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- Subject: Re: GTS1000A gripe
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.152607.14235@bnr.uk>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 15:26:07 GMT
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- With regard to BMW panniers:
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- BMW do not buy their cases from Krauser anymore, and haven't since 1989 at
- least. They seem to have fallen out with Krauser and now have their panniers
- made elsewhere. The frames are black plastic stuff which are very good and
- the panniers do not fall out or open anymore. I speak from personal experience
- of over three years of abusing the BMW panniers on Kay, my K100RS. I have
- loaded the panniers far beyond their recommended carrying weight and have
- driven over rough terrain and at far higher speeds than BMW recommend. One of
- the problems I have with them is that they leak water because I have forced
- them to close several times when I shouldn't ie when I had overfilled them or
- put an awkward shaped object in them. I live with the results of my own
- mistakes (four children also!).
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- When I was at The Bike Show (NEC, Brum) I talked to one of the head guys on
- the Krauser stand and he was quite vehement in his condemnation of BMW and
- their "dreadful" attitude in not using Krauser panniers anymore. He said that
- their panniers were much better than BMW's. I disagree for at least one main
- reason, and that is that BMW make panniers to fit their bikes which you can
- see if you look at a panniered BMW, the bike-side of the pannier case fits
- into the space below and to the back of the seat which makes the overall width
- of the panniered bike several inches narrower. I remember my previous bikes
- with Krauser panniers and how wide they were. Several times I have caught a
- pannier on a cage and once had an accident because of this. With Kay, I have
- to be obscenely close to do such a thing.
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- Nick (the Verbose Biker (today)) MAG 73516 DoD 1069 Rogets Thesaurus
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- M'Lud. "Shut up!"
-