GRiSO Luggage - Best Solution for long distance touring?

Hey,

I've got a wonderful 2013 GRiSO.... its beautiful and a wonderful street ride in the city...

HOWEVER, I love going on long tours... i used to go on cross country trips on my '80 1000 sp, with large side saddle bags and some camping equipment strapped to the back. I would love to be able to take my GRiSO out on longer trips....

I only have a GIVI trunk, however the smaller aluminum trunk has a habit of breaking the mounting bolts... its happened 3 times with hardly any weight! I was wondering what the best luggage solutions existed for the GRiSO?

How is this one?

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Any other options? I'm looking for super reliable and robust, yet hopefully somewhat streamlined...


Thanks!
Richard

They look good, but crikey, they're expensive!

Or am I out of touch with luggage prices?

I like Hepco & Backer C Bow as well,
I found them well made and convenient - but they may be too small for your needs

I had 75 litres of carry space for £687 (used my own carrier rack and can use £497 of bags on other bikes)

Hepco & Backer in UK
I used the Roysters sire bags 22 litres each side for £280
+ £190 for the brackets
with the Roysters "Rear Bag"  (27 expandable to 32) litres for £217 includes a lock-it adaptor to fit the carrier of your choice.

PS i still have my GRiSO Cbow mounts and will want a lot less than £190 for them lol

I use the C-Bow Xtravel bags.

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I bought those from that same ebay listing, almost a year ago; Arthur. No problems, super nice guy. Easy-mounting c-bows, and the H&Bs do look tidy on the bike. I still like them. Came with the hardware, but to get the left pannier clear of the Agostini conical, I have the left side bag sticking an inch further out than the right-side bag. I used two of the original under-saddle pegs as spacers on the left side. It annoys the ocd-part of me, but I'll live. (Another Grisonaut at rustedchrome.com solved the same problem by dropping the mount on his Ago').

The panniers are too small to swallow a helmet. They have a removable liner and straps for that chic-over-the-shoulder look. They are holding their shape, but they are flexible. Zips are holding, the cordura-type fabric isn't wearing out. Won't stop a knife. I can't imagine one would survive a slide with 500+lb on top of it. Perfect for winter commutes, and weekend tours, but I did need a 35L dry-bag strapped to the pillion for the extra storage on a week-long trip to a professional conference. I'd be pressed to fit my usual down bag, mattress, ground sheet, jet-boil, pack-raft, paddle, pfd, plus tools, wet-weather gear etc. But I like the H&Bs enough that I would find a way.

This is something I'm putting the final touches to on my Red Bike as it is being set up as a GRiSO Turismo.

The problem I saw with the C-bow bags is that they are rather small. I also have a set of the original 'Factory' racks which use bags made by Tekno and use the 'Clik-fit' mounting system. The racks have been modified slightly to accommodate the Mistral Hi-Pipe I run but it wasn't a big deal and the actual design of the racks is very simple and should be easy enough for any half way decent welder to fabricate facsimiles of with little effort.

Now I'm not a fan of either 'Soft' luggage or the 'Semi-rigid' Tekno bags so my answer was to buy a couple of no-name Chinese hard bags off the bay of fleas for the princely sum of $200AU. They aren't the prettiest and are only rated as 20 litres as opposed to the 35 litres of the Givi bags I have on my Mana although they look bigger than half the size! Closer to 30 I would think. They also have flat inner sides which means I should be able to mount them on the Clik-Fit mounts I bought from a mob in the USA and that should enable me to mount them in a simple, quickly detachable way.

While I do have the factory tail rack fitted to this bike it won't be getting a case on it and when I got the seat built I deliberately asked for a flat squab in the pillion position. My thinking being that I can throw a duffel bag over the seat and have it resting atop the panniers thus keeping the weight lower and between the two axles of the wheels.

Finally I have the large 'Factory' tank bag. Now while it is HUGE, quite capable of carrying a severed head, it is annoying to use as you have to unzip it from its base to access the fuel cap and when turning the bars to anywhere near full lock it will blast the horn or kill the motor depending which way you turn them. The end solution to this will be another of Onur's wonderfultank rings and a larger Givi tank bag.

Let's face it. If I need more luggage than that I should take the bloody car!

Crappy Chineseum bags.

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