Piolt they come off for the tight stuf, I will normally ride up to the trails (100miles) set up camp take the panniers off and hit the dirt.

 

Okay, I know that having a place to put stuff on a bike is a problem.
You have my blessing.

 

WOW, its 8lbs.... that rack can only hold 11lbs... so u cant put much in it.....

 

Maybe you guys need to go back and read this thread
https://www.kawasakiforums.com/m_20220/tm.htm

 

I like the soft bags too.

 

If the 250S sub frame is anything like the 300, it is a very weak part of the frame and bends easily. I know of a couple guys that have had to gusset the frameas a result of hard off road riding with no additional weight on the back.I recently alsotweaked mysub frame somewhatand even though I got it backstraight, it looks like I will probably be doing some welding on it to strengthen it up.

 

Cool, but she wasn't sitting on the luggage rack either. The sub frame back there isn't very strong.

 

That would be wise. Pavement and relatively smooth dirt rodes might be alright, but I've seen the subframes snap when people load them up like that and take them off road Normally, when a bike of this type is fitted with that type of thing, extra frame pieces are fastened or welded to the main frame. There are web sites that specialize in that, but I haven't seen anything done for the KLX yet. It's normally just a matter of them gettting the bike to work on.