WR-ing about in Morocco

[videoman]

Great photos and trip report, thanks very much for sharing.

[micksea]

the excitement is building for our trip later in the year.can you show how the kriega panniers attach to the bike or is it the same as the overlander 30 system?

[halfpint]

micksea bet you wish you had wrr !

[micksea]

why would I wish that? B)

[Chris S]

'Can you show how the kriega panniers attach to the bike or is it the same as the overlander 30 system?"

These OS32s aren’t the same as the old Overlander 30s.
Iirc, those modular bags was attached permanently to the plate which clamped onto a rack with fiddly skewer clamps. I prefer one big bag, like a Magadan.
With the OS32 system you thread the lower bag straps through the plate permanently mounted to a rack. Pic 1 & 2.
Then you do the same with the upper straps. Pic 3 and 4 (4 is viewed from the back)
Upper straps have a fixed buckle which pulls through the plate slot and anchors itself, like a button (Wolfman in the US used a similar idea, but direct to a rack).
You then hook up the lower ends to the front-bag strap with chunky flat metal hooks, do the same up top, then cinch it all tight against the plate with a locking cam buckle.
Pic 5.
I found it a very solid system that won’t budge off road and after a couple week’s use comes off in < 30 seconds per side with minimal faff.
For me, easy removal at the end of the day when your tired, and easy fitting in the morning when you may be dozy or distracted, are key (in between times I’m obviously on top form!),
To my mind these Kriega’s do it as well as any off-road-focussed luggage system. Dust and waterproof so far. Only fell over once negotiating some roadworks. The hypalon patches shrugged that off.

I’ll do a full review on my AMwebsite when I get back.

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[micksea]

kriega are launching a full range of new off road panniers in different capacities,supposedley in the spring but no word about them anywhere.

[Duncan666]

Great post Chris keep it coming. Is this the teaser for more routes to be published in a revised book/website?

[crofty]

good photos and interesting stories with uncertain outcomes always makes for interesting reading. knowing you are an enthusiast for 250s is it still too early to report on a comparison with the other 250s you have used on previous trips

[Chris S]

Duncan: correct. Book out in August they say. Website regularly updated.

crofty: not so much a fan of 250s as light, efi bikes that aren't big thumpers.
Didn't fancy a clapped out DRZ. Not tried CCM.
On the piste WR is perfect - don't need any more anything except less seat height and a dct gearbox ( .
On the highway need more poke to make a do-it-all adv tourer.
Give my WR a headwind and a hill and I'm down to 45 - even less today all day >2000m.
Glad I flyandride'd the bike to Malaga.
I think it's my weight and gear.

Stuck in the freezing high atlas all day - rode 80km to find the road becomes a river.

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[PHILinFRANCE]

This is so good , cheers (thumbs)