Soft luggage options advantages disadvantages

[the Ferret]

I thought the set that popgun got, sort of a combo of hard and soft was pretty cool, and they looked really well suited to the CB size wise. The problem with most bolt on hard luggage to me, is if you get bags large enough to hold much they look out of proportion to the bike and look terrible from the rear..really wide. And sometimes in order to preserve the passenger pegs, they mount them really far back. The Givis on a FZ-1 almost look like they are following the bike. I don't want that look when I'm just riding around town or out hitting the curves. If you get hard bags that are small, well, they don't hold much lol.

Built in hard luggage like on the ST, the FJR, the Triumph ST, the Kaw Concours look good imo.