| As someone who enjoys a fast and sometimes | | | | to be dried out over a camp fire. That part was |
| furious ride on my powerful sport bike, I truly | | | | miserable, and not even having a pair of dry |
| appreciate the security, safety and convenience of | | | | undershorts made for one cold night! |
| my hard saddlebags. Why is it that I've come to love | | | | While hard saddlebags might look awesome on most |
| and enjoy my hard saddlebags? It is not that I don't | | | | any motorbike, several of the coolest looking |
| care much for other kinds of saddlebags - quite the | | | | saddlebags You ever saw were attached to those |
| contrary. In fact, I believe that a Harley Davidson | | | | early BMW R100 motorbikes. I once worked with a |
| Sportster with leather saddlebags that are simply | | | | man from Denmark who had a magenta BMW R100 |
| dripping with chrome buttons and buckles, medallions | | | | with jet black hard-sided saddlebags (the kind that |
| and maybe even sparkly jewels may just be the | | | | turned into briefcases when dismounted), and I just |
| sexiest looking bike this side of Gisele! Ever since I've | | | | believed that they were nearly the sweetest things I |
| been using hard saddlebags on my sport bike, I have | | | | had ever seen. Those old BMWs were a truly stylish |
| gotten used to the convenience and the safety of | | | | motorcycle (this was 30 years ago), but plenty of |
| the lockable lids and the hard-to-crush sides for all of | | | | the motorcycles built even today are beauties in their |
| of my crucial goods. | | | | own right, and I imagine these styles do genuinely |
| Unlike a lot of bikers these days, I've ridden in plenty | | | | plead for a set of hard saddlebags. |
| of bad weather - without hanging out under an | | | | Leather saddlebags look awesome, it's true, and they |
| overpass for protection until the storm rolls out. I've | | | | are genuinely practical and can be very useful, |
| even ridden in rain, hail, sleet and snow - all during the | | | | however I might hesitate taking them on a long road |
| same trip! I did freeze my privates off - couldn't | | | | trip where I was in all likelihood to notice heaps of |
| even stand up I was so cold - but me and my | | | | rain (see two paragraphs above). Mostly because the |
| compadres still talk about that trip even today as | | | | hard saddlebags are made mainly of tough and |
| one of the best times we had. Unfortunately, I didn't | | | | waterproof plastic, and this plastic saddlebag will, |
| have hard saddlebags. I didn't even have saddlebags - | | | | without doubt, hold up much better in a rainstorm |
| just a backpack that got thoroughly soaked and had | | | | than their leather counterparts. |