Hard panniers breaking ankles...how?

[lund]

The OE panniers are definitely designed to come off in the event of a spill, it doesn't take much and are one of the lease likely to break your ankle in the hard panniers out there.
Yamaha built this in mind to sacrifice the pannier over possibly breaking a riders leg or ankle and good on them for doing so.

 

[Checkswrecks]

The OE panniers are definitely designed to come off in the event of a spill, it doesn't take much and are one of the lease likely to break your ankle in the hard panniers out there.
Yamaha built this in mind to sacrifice the pannier over possibly breaking a riders leg or ankle and good on them for doing so.

Ummmm - I'll just politely disagree. Here's one that flipped over after sliding off the road during a violent high speed crash sequence, sliding on the cases on both sides. All three stayed attached till intentionally removed.

 

[lund]

I'm sure there are exceptions as no crash are the same. I had my RH OE box break its hinges on a simple tip over....go figure eh.
I replaced it with a new one dealer had kicking around LOL.
Thats a good slide though.

 

[AlanSmith7]

Don't want to write a big paragraph when I already know you can't handle that situation, because it totally happened in different circumstances. The only best thing is you purchase ankle protection.

I mean, it happens in different situations, most common is you are parking the bike in a hurry and you got a kiss from the hard panniers on your ankle. or in the event of a crash, your legs got stuck under the bags and there is literally no way you can move it aside with all that friction and bike load, or you can install a motorcycle crash bar to avoid it from happening, the crash bar will even out the bike balance and you can exit the bike rather easily.

 

[03A3KRH]

 

[thughes317]

Ouch! Hope that heals up quick....did the boots save your leg?

Tusk boxes? (because they're some tough mofo's, takes a damn good lick to bash 'em like that)

 

[03A3KRH]

Yes, Tusk boxes. Two years ago. No broken bones but I still have a bit of a scar tissue where the box got me. Boots did their job. Bike didn’t survive.

 

[MattR]

My bike fell on top of me when I came off at 20mph. The footrest broke my ankle. I was wearing Klim boots. I didn’t have my panniers on but I suspect that if I had they would have saved my ankle


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[Bmwdumptruck]

As I’ve already said I’ve never heard of this as a big issue before, I guess it’s just another accepted risk of riding bikes. I certainly wouldn’t not use my panniers because of it. If I’m on a trip and need the load carrying ability I’ll use them. I’d guess most of us would.

 

[Purificator81]

As I’ve already said I’ve never heard of this as a big issue before, I guess it’s just another accepted risk of riding bikes. I certainly wouldn’t not use my panniers because of it. If I’m on a trip and need the load carrying ability I’ll use them. I’d guess most of us would.

A compromise is to have soft panniers provided they are not filled to the point of basically making them almost hard panniers. For me I use neither one and relay on crashbars to get my feet out when I go down...

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[jbuhl]

The guy who had my bike before me , for some reason , mounted the Moose hard bags rather high. I always thought they would be better lower down for weight distro. But I don't run a top case when I load up, just soft and low on the rack. I have dabbed a fair amount in rutted terrain and never had an issue. But I could see if you were in a deep one it could be a problem, especially if the mount is low.