Originally Posted by
TiHabanero
Got to thinking about this, and am wondering why cloth is the choice for pannier construction? Motorbikes have hard cases, why not bicycles? Weight? Cost?
Well mr ti, while there were and are hard cases on motorsickles, nearly 40 years ago I had a snazzy red cordura tank bag that strapped onto my snazzy red Yamaha. It came in handy holding my Nikon on it one handed to take a rather blurry photo of the tach and speedo during a top speed run at 180 or so kph. The dumbass stuff we did eh?
for push bikes, I reckon space and cost considerations, handy frankly they can be smaller when empty...