Pannier handles?

[dirtydog]

I can't believe these panniers (ADV) don't have handles!

I mean, it's like going into town, buying a suitcase and finding out the handles are sold separatley, can you imagine it?..... 'Oi mate, where's the handles for the suitecase?', 'sorry dude, they're extra!'.......it's a feckin joke!

As if they don't make enough money out of us

And, here's the best. Poxy webbing handles at £42 a pair, they're having a feckin laugh. I'm gonna buy some proper 'blokes' handles.....

 

[NorthernBoy]

It is becoming more and more obvious to me why the average age of BMW riders is so high. The costs are just ridiculous. I am not short of a bob or two, but having just been quoted £570 for panniers and inner bags, I am wondering if a V-strom 1000 would not have been the more prudent choice.

 

[dirtydog]

It is becoming more and more obvious to me why the average age of BMW riders is so high. The costs are just ridiculous. I am not short of a bob or two, but having just been quoted £570 for panniers and inner bags, I am wondering if a V-strom 1000 would not have been the more prudent choice.

To be fair dude, I can fully appreciate what your saying!

Who knows, if the Japs sort their act out with manufacturing a decent, capable shaft driven trailie, then I for one will be very interested indeed!

BM really do take the piss. £12k for a bike with no feckin pannier handles, it really is ludicrous.

They can only take the piss for so long! .....

 

[NorthernBoy]

It becomes obvious when you see things that are just rebranded, like some of the boots, where they add 30% for identical kit to that which you can buy elsewhere.

If they were really selling a premium product, then the stratospheric prices may well be justified (who knows what is "fair" for the number 1 kit?), but, when you look at things like the split seam on the BM leathers in Ride this month, or, as I said earlier, £570 for plastic panniers, well, it is taking the piss.

It is maybe enough to put me off their cars, too. I drive an M3 at the moment, and, had I not experienced the bike, I might have believed that the associated costs were fair (£1,700 for an extra year's warranty, £20,000 for a replacement engine). Now, though, I suspect that the mark-up is crazy, and I may as well move to something more exotic.

 

[birdseye]

It is becoming more and more obvious to me why the average age of BMW riders is so high. The costs are just ridiculous. I am not short of a bob or two, but having just been quoted £570 for panniers and inner bags, I am wondering if a V-strom 1000 would not have been the more prudent choice.

I can vouch that the BMW depreciation is way less. So you pay silly money in the first place and for the moment (or at least until all these bikes get to the second hand market) you get even sillier money back. For example 1200GS 10k new in 2004, dealer price now 8 to 8.5k. Cant do that with any Jap bike.

 

[(RIP) Kaister]

Get the worlds best handles from southco - via a uk low volume distributor here.

Its what most product designers use for off the shelf stuff

http://www.zygology.com/products/tier3.asp?search_ID=Handles

failing that try Hafele - have a good old search around - then find a local low volume distributor

http://www.hafele.co.uk/

 

[dirtydog]

Get the worlds best handles from southco - via a uk low volume distributor here.

Its what most product designers use for off the shelf stuff

http://www.zygology.com/products/tier3.asp?search_ID=Handles

failing that try Hafele - have a good old search around - then find a local low volume distributor

http://www.hafele.co.uk/

 

[NorthernBoy]

I can vouch that the BMW depreciation is way less. So you pay silly money in the first place and for the moment (or at least until all these bikes get to the second hand market) you get even sillier money back. For example 1200GS 10k new in 2004, dealer price now 8 to 8.5k. Cant do that with any Jap bike.

Are you saying that you actually got 8.5k cash for a 2004 GS? I doubt that.

If you are saying that the dealers expect to take a large profit on used bikes, then yes, yes they do.

This has absolutely nothing to do with the question of how much depreciation an owner will face, though. Totally different quantities.

And rge R1200GS has sold in huge quantities, and many examples do not weather well. I think that you are maybe on crack if you think that our bikes have rock solid residuals any longer.