Originally Posted by
indyfabz
For those things? That's more of a joke than the price of the bike. You can get a pair of Ortlieb's Back Roller Classic panniers for $180 including shipping.
It is a large price to be paid for such limited equipment, particularly if one has never actually toured so has no experience with any type of bags, and refuses to acknowledge any criticism by those that the product is presented to. But I think that we have all learned that S-box equates high cost with the idea that it must be the best, rather than simply buying into an image.
The bags may be great, I am trying not to let my personal opinions flavor my assessment of them.