looks
these boxes like all the others are not designed primarily from a looks point of view,
They are designed to be functional, to do a job , that is to carry luggage through thick and thin , to sustain crashes, falls, dropping the bike, still keeping the contents securly intact.The blue powder coating is quite a bit darker in reality and actually looks well.I had this problem with a previous touratech set and i had to line the panniers with leatherette in order to stop the aluminium destroying my clothing in the panniers, the powder coating avoids all of this. I also in the past suffered from the melted clothing syndrome because of using a remus exhaust my coolmax t shirts ,the exhaust ext. remedies this.
and stuff were ruined. I think civil with his immense pannier experience has got 95% of the way (well more than tt or even jesse james) towards the ideal pannier set . I think civil is at the stage where he can give a money back guarantee, having addressed most of the inital development concerns (especially those that he had with previous sets of jesse bags and tt panniers ).
to say that these are not nice then the oppositions offerings are definitley not nice either but then again the gs is probably one of the nicest ugliest bikes ever made.
sorry for going on a bit.