Ducati Sporting Club UK > Model Specific - Discussion, Technical Problems and Help > 998 / 996 / 916 / 748 > Panniers on a 748/916? Advice please

[Douglas]

Hi

Anyone used Oxford panniers on their 748/916? Or any advice on using panniers on a 748 etc?

[antonye]

Don't!

Get a Ventura Luggage System instead - best bit of kit for touring without doubt.

[Steve B]

Seconded.

Ventura makes the impossible - simple and comfortable.

1000 miles in two days last year in France with no problems.

Steve

[BDG]

Thirded, Ventura, throwaway the throwovers!

[BDG]

Ventura pic

[Douglas]

Chaps, Thanks for the advice. Having looked at the Ventura system on the web, I can see its the business, the only problem is trhat they are beyond my means at present!

What are the problems with panniers? I have an old seat unit which I thought i might fit with the luggage, so I can gaffer tape it up to my hearts content. I was wondering about the exhausts, do they touch the panniers, or does the shape of the seat unit hold them away? I need an interim solution until I can afford the pukka stuff!

[rcgbob44]

Luggage on a 916.................................blasphemy!

[Clippy]

Oxford Humpback Throwovers work quite well on a 998 - I've done 2 trips to Italy with these and they're far more stable than a tailpack as the weights lower down and therefore causes less wobble against the single pin-type lock at the back of the seat unit.

I bungee under the numberplate holder at the back, and run a bungee between the subframe and the heatguard at the front (just behind the shock) and everything stays where it should all the way to 150+ mph.

I'll post a couple of photos if/when I can find them...

Giles

[Clippy]

Photos as promised, but the quality is not great.

I guess the key is that I have carbon Termis, so the bungees don't melt where they wrap down alongside the exhausts at the rear...

...and panniers do make a narrow bike rather wide (as the paint scuffs on mine prove, picked up while filtering through the usual queues on the Autostrada around Genoa...)!

[Douglas]

Thanks for the pics. I have been looking at some humpbacks in a sale, so I think they may be the way to go. Sadly I dont have carbon termis, but I do have a bip, so I hope that the footpegs will help. I have a trip planned in a few weeks, so need to get myselt geared up!