Hello from Germany

congrats on your new bike, if you will ride streets mostly, then Honda OE plastic panniers will fit best for filtering. Otherwise you need rack system and then Aluminum or soft panniers, which will look bulky and gets expensive.

There is no right or wrong, or BEST solution, different riders, different boxes. Search this forum for "bags" "panniers" " luggage" and of course check YouTube and Google, endless solutions available.

I installed Givi softs on my '22 (and HEED's and LOMO's)...cheers from Canada

Little Bill Daggett said:

Nice one! Was in Germany yesterday. There was a big bike meet in Torfhaus in the Harz Mountains. All sorts of bikes there but only counted ONE black Africa Twin. Happy Rides.

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Same here in Canada, Lots of motorcycles around, but don't see any AT's and it's interesting when we all get together in the places like the one in this picture, very few riders know about AT's and almost nobody ever heard about DCT. They all gather around my DCT in awe, scratching their heads... it seems there are still many people living under the rock . It also have to be said, on our cable/ satellite TV's with 1000's of channels, not a single commercial on motorcycles.

It was mainly Tree Darts and Power Rangers riding about the Harz hairpins on sports bikes. In the main they were quite sensible but there were the odd few idiots who ruin it for the rest. No wonder the villages have got signs up about motorcycle noise - such a shame. The most professional riders we saw were the people on the big GS's but one AT in a whole week was a bit of a let down. Interesting to see a rider under assessment - the tester was in a chase car with radio comms. I always thought that it would be a pursuit bike for some reason. Maybe one of the lads from Germany could enlighten? Maybe they use both?
Anyway got talking to a lad at a local filling station who came over to chat after he saw me looking at his bike from afar and he'd noticed that 'your driver's seat is on the wrong side of your auto' in a voice like Arnold's. He was on a 30 year old BMW flat twin (R69 or similar?). Told me it had 120,000km on the clock, ridden daily and still rides like new. After seeing some of the poseurs at Torfhaus strutting their stuff in their leather chastity belts it was great to meet a genuine enthusiast. Couldn't believe that he was wearing an old UK Barbour M/C jacket like Sammy Miller.