What do you call those "storage containers" that hang off the side of your bike?

[Bikeric]

Saddle bags or throwovers if they're soft, panniers if they are hard. Definitely panniers on my ST!

 

[ChriSTian_64]

In Quebec, as french is the mother tongue of most people, we call them by the french equivalent word for saddlebags : sacoche.
We use the same word for any custom bike, or horses, saddlebag.

The Honda ST1100 service manual ( US version ) call them Saddlebag, not panniers.
But I've seen panniers in a manual somewhere.... maybe in my version of the owner's manual ? Or Clymer ?

 

[ibike2havefun]

Pan = all as in pandemic :grin:

That was posted in July 2018. Suddenly this post takes on a whole new perspective. Whaddareya, psychic or something?

 

[ChriSTian_64]

That was posted in July 2018.

Well.... years after years, we still enjoy talking about our ST's.
We're like old farmers, enjoying a talk on forecoming weather, crops and harvesting.

 

[TourNut]

Them-Thar thangs with the paint ?

 

[heffly]

Saddle bags fit in behind the saddle. Panniers go on a pack animal.

 

[Flexit]

In the UK if you asked for saddle bags you would just get a blank look. We sit on a motorcycle seat (not a saddle), have panniers (not saddle bags) as side luggage and a top box on the rear (not a trunk).

Lots of differences between English and American

 

[Sheriff41]

On my ST, I refer to them as side cases. The leather ones on my cruiser I call saddlebags. The ST is too sporty for saddlebags!

 

[Larry Fine]

Luggage?

 

[beemerphile]

Panniers? - I don't want a motorcycle with breadbaskets. That is for a girl's bicycle.
Saddlebags? - Reserved for horses and Harleys. Leather things with fringe, rivets, and big gaudy buckles.
Hard Cases? - That is probably a description better applied to us than than our machines.

As a crumpled up old BMW rider, I'm staying with Side Cases. It is the only name that doesn't carry, ahem, baggage with it.

Side Cases are hard. If they are soft, they are Side Bags.

 

[caldercay]

I like to ride horses when I can

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Just one of ours - Belgian Warmblood ... believe it or not, Teddy is 25 years old and is still very athletic! He's a retired Hunter/Jumper
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And yes, he's rubbing his butt on the post.
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[BakerBoy]

They can also be called pontoons.

 

[TipSTer]

Side bags/ top case.

 

[caldercay]

If we're talking ST-style bike, I'll rotate with "pannier" or "side case" ... definitely NOT saddle bag - that's for soft [faux] leather sacks we see on Hardleys.

 

[ST Gui]

I've never used 'side cases'. Ever. I've used saddle bags and bags - a hold over from using soft saddle bags on my V65 Sabre. I've used top case tail case and trunk. Lately in speech I've taken to favoring panniers and trunk. Panniers just feels smoother to say and is a hold over from soft luggage on my bicycles which by some people's reckoning should be called saddle bags. Clearly I don't much care what other people think is proper. Both panniers and trunk are easier to type too.

 

[beemerphile]

Yeah, but we all need to get Tour-Paks for our baggers.

An American Brand rider that I somehow manage to maintain a friendship with assures me that trunks are for elephants.

 

[Nashcat]

What do you call the bag that you put on the passenger seat?

”Darling”

 

[Larry Fine]

 

[rwthomas1]

Hard cases, or hard bags. Saddlebags are soft and usually leather. Not sure the correct way to pronounce "panniers" so....

RT

 

[ST Gui]

What do you call those "storage containers" that hang off the side of your bike?

Tupperware?