ManeEvent liners review

[oldrascal]

Being familiar with the BMW bags for the GSA aluminium panniers and top box, I felt that, although they were solidly and well made, the design was clumsy, awkward to zip and unzip and became almost uncomfortably stiff in cold weather. So to complement my newly replaced panniers and top box, I decided to venture oustside the BMW fold and my choice fell upon one of two makers, Cathy's or ManeEvent.

Opinion on this forum seems to be fairly evenly split so, in the end, money made the choice for me. A pair of Cathy's panniers were £98 plus delivery and a set of three liners from ManeEvent were similar money - so ManeEvent got my business. I ordered on Thursday and the packet arrived this morning.

Here are some pictures:


1. Promo shot:

2. The unwrapped parcel as delivered:

3. Offside pannier:

4. Nearside pannier with extra zipped pouch:

5. Top-box liner in place:

I am aware of a 'dialogue' between a forumite and ManeEvent in which it was claimed that the offside panner liner was much narrower than the space available and I was curious to check this myself. At first glance, this looks to be the case as, when you first drop the liner into the pannier, there are quite large gaps between the liner and the sides of the pannier. However, closer inspection shows that this is an illusion.

The floor of the pannier is not flat and the sides are chamfered in by about 3 cm all around. The base of the ManeEvent liner is semi-rigid and is designed to sit square on the flat base of the pannier. There seems to me that there is enough flexibility in the liner material to balloon out to the sides when filled. In any case, I don't see it as an issue. The proof that there is no sloppy thinking in the design is borne out by the perfect fit of the top box liner and the clever positioning of the supplementary zipped section on the nearside pannier which fills the void above the exhaust cutout perfectly.

All of the panniers have a double-zipped panel for entry and this is operated by a cord connecting the zip tags allowing simulataneous zip opening in theory. I am not sure how well this works in practice as the material is not particularly rigid and zipping and unzipping still require two hands. We will see. All in all although so far untried in practice, I am pleased with the choice, above all when you consider what you are getting for your money.

 

[(RIP) Shenzi]

Nearly three years down the road and I am very happy with mine, That zipped pocket on the exhaust side is very useful, I put my phone/camera/MP3 chargers, Swiss Army knife and a few other small items in there.

 

[London Mole]

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Being familiar with the BMW bags for the GSA aluminium panniers and top box, I felt that, although they were solidly and well made, the design was clumsy, awkward to zip and unzip and became almost uncomfortably stiff in cold weather. So to complement my newly replaced panniers and top box, I decided to venture oustside the BMW fold and my choice fell upon one of two makers, Cathy's or ManeEvent.

Opinion on this forum seems to be fairly evenly split so, in the end, money made the choice for me. A pair of Cathy's panniers were £98 plus delivery and a set of three liners from ManeEvent were similar money - so ManeEvent got my business. I ordered on Thursday and the packet arrived this morning.

Here are some pictures:


1. Promo shot:

2. The unwrapped parcel as delivered:

3. Offside pannier:

4. Nearside pannier with extra zipped pouch:

5. Top-box liner in place:

I am aware of a 'dialogue' between a forumite and ManeEvent in which it was claimed that the offside panner liner was much narrower than the space available and I was curious to check this myself. At first glance, this looks to be the case as, when you first drop the liner into the pannier, there are quite large gaps between the liner and the sides of the pannier. However, closer inspection shows that this is an illusion.

The floor of the pannier is not flat and the sides are chamfered in by about 3 cm all around. The base of the ManeEvent liner is semi-rigid and is designed to sit square on the flat base of the pannier. There seems to me that there is enough flexibility in the liner material to balloon out to the sides when filled. In any case, I don't see it as an issue. The proof that there is no sloppy thinking in the design is borne out by the perfect fit of the top box liner and the clever positioning of the supplementary zipped section on the nearside pannier which fills the void above the exhaust cutout perfectly.

All of the panniers have a double-zipped panel for entry and this is operated by a cord connecting the zip tags allowing simulataneous zip opening in theory. I am not sure how well this works in practice as the material is not particularly rigid and zipping and unzipping still require two hands. We will see. All in all although so far untried in practice, I am pleased with the choice, above all when you consider what you are getting for your money.

What on earth happened to the pictures???

Is it a thread about trousers and phones???

 

[oldrascal]

That is very funny............

I think what happened is that, as the original thread was so old (July 2009), I needed to rationalise my PhotoBucket folders and clear away 'dead' pictures. Normally, this results in the pictures in the original thread becoming unavailable and a blank box or something similar appearing.

I suspect that I must have given the same references later in the year to completely different pictures of other items being sold and that's what has turned up on the old thread.

Like I said, very funny because threads are normally not revisited unless they are reference based as this was of course. Good job I wasn't uploading some more - ahem - racy items.

 

[London Mole]

apoplogies

That is very funny............

I think what happened is that, as the original thread was so old (July 2009), I needed to rationalise my PhotoBucket folders and clear away 'dead' pictures. Normally, this results in the pictures in the original thread becoming unavailable and a blank box or something similar appearing.

I suspect that I must have given the same references later in the year to completely different pictures of other items being sold and that's what has turned up on the old thread.

Like I said, very funny because threads are normally not revisited unless they are reference based as this was of course. Good job I wasn't uploading some more - ahem - racy items.

Sorry mate!

Didn't mean to be rude, was just wondering what had happened, I don't have a "Bucket" so I haven't heard of the possible issues with photos.

I guess I've learned something!!!