Kreiga KS40's in GSA alloy panniers?

[mpgscott]

I had one of my aliminium panniers leak the other week and i think it was just the seal wasnt sitting correctly, i have cleaned up the seal and blasted it with the hose and it seems fine now.

Are they common to leaking these aliminium ones, as the varios never leaked.

 

[cookie]

i've had 2 sets. one leaked, other, later built, didn't.

with the first boxes, i stood the bike upright, chucked a cup of water in the panniers and then drilled a tiny 1mm hole where the water pooled. not only does this prevent the inner bags sitting in a puddle, but also prevents the lids vacuuming on (not a problem with the later vented boxes).

 

[mpgscott]

Any idea what year is the old and new that you are talking about Cookie? Mine is a 2012 model is this likley the newer vented ones??

 

[MWH]

Depends if the pannier came with the bike! I had new panniers in 2012 on an 09 bike. I'm guessing the vented ones have the little plastic rectangle on the rear face?

 

[cookie]

i'm not sure when the vented ones appeared - 09ish maybe?

yes, the little black plastic rectangles on the outside and the spikey spikes on the inside are the vents.

 

[MattW]

Although my panniers came with my 2012 bike (which I bought just before Christmas last year), they don't have the black plastic vent jobbies so I guess they were old stock or came off a previous bike. My topbox which came off a 2013 bike does have the vent.

As I posted above, my panniers definitely leak. I'll probably drill the little hole that Cookie posted about and get waterproof inner bags (which I guess means the BMW ones - shame as I much prefer the quality and practicality of the Kreiga ones and there's little difference in cost). Wrestling my current inner bags in and out of bin bags in the rain every time I put them in the boxes soon got tiresome on my last trip.

I used to have Verns panniers on my 1100. Somehow they leaked too which was crazy as if you closed them up at sea level and gained a reasonable altitude the vacuum wouldn't let them open - I used to have to prize the lid open with a screwdriver to break the vacuum (yet they still let water in)...

 

[cookie]

I used to have Verns panniers on my 1100. Somehow they leaked too which was crazy as if you closed them up at sea level and gained a reasonable altitude the vacuum wouldn't let them open - I used to have to prize the lid open with a screwdriver to break the vacuum (yet they still let water in)...

yeah, my first pair were the same. wouldn't leak with a jetwash aimed at them, but did in practice. i began to wonder if the vacuum sucked the water in?