New Pelican-based Luggage System

Happy New YEAR!

That makes sense, and yeah... 4lbs up high would be a nice reduction ... more ways to spend $$$

It does not seem like they tried to match the dimensions of the "regular" cases when the designed the air series....
I wonder why ... just to offer more variety? the 1555 is not really very close to the 1550 ...

@CaribouCases - Any chance your topcase setup has been tested on the 890 Adventure R? I managed to score a Rally and would really love this as an option for secure storage in-town with a luggage plate underneath I can use when I'm camping/ADV. I don't see any mention of 890 on your site, only 790. Fingers crossed!!!!

Any chance you could post a pic with a bird's eye view of the stock tail rack on the 890?

Hi Jim
Thanks for your feedback. I will look into the 1507 Air case some more, especially regarding any molded protrusions on the case bottom. From your work on other Pelican cases have you found the cases to be weakened at all if these protrusions are ground or planed off?
Thanks again.

Hi Jim,

Not a problem on the 1550 or 1520 cases, or any of the original Pelican cases. However on the Storm cases the protrusions on the back are thin and you would go right through the case when trying to grind them down (molded-in protrusions outside are indentations on the inside) The Air cases are going to also have this problem I think.

I bolted a Storm case to a rear luggage rack and placed rubber washers between the case and the rack to take up the space of the protrusions and to seal around the bolts to insure water couldn't leak in through the holes I drilled in the bottom of the case.

Good plan!
On a prior bike I had a case that was going to be permanently mounted and was able to find a scrap of closed cell neoprene foam and cut it to match the backing plate then thru-bolted it with Nylock nuts that were not cranked quite all the way downn.
It worked out well.

I'm very happy, so far, with Caribou Pelicans for my new to me 2013 F800GS.

I found the lids have built-in internal screw mounts, 1 in each corner of the lid. #8 x 1/2" panhead screws fit perfectly. Using these, I added a 12"×12" bungee net to the inside of each lid.

Roger, not sure if you sell kits for this. If not, its something to consider.

Thanks for building out products for the 2020+ VStrom 1050 models. Haven't seen much vendor support at all yet for the new models, and it's nice to see somebody give the Stroms a little love in this era of Tenere & Africa Twin everything.

You are most welcome AKStrom. We still need to do the top case mount for the 1050 Strom, so anyone out there in Colorado with this bike should give us a call or email sales@cariboucases.com and we'll get it done!

CaribouCases
Just brought home a 2018 Africa Twin Adventure Sports, whew that's a mouthful.
Anyway I am shopping side cases and mounts. Have discounted factory boxes for my use and leaning toward the Carabou 35 liter kit for my bike.
My question is, how are the 2016, 2017 mounts/kits different from 2018 and later?

Howdy,
I have a question regarding the older style SKB cases (I purchased my 40L caribous in 2012). I had a latch on each of the cases break (just the internal spring loaded piece), and it looks like they changed the latch design since then, so I was wondering if the newer latches will work with the older design cases?

It looks like they mount onto the case the same way, but the latch itself looks a bit different.

Thanks for any info, and hopefully I can just get some of the newer design latches to fix this.

Here's the older latch style:


Here's one of the broken ones:


Here's what the whole thing looks like.