I think it should be a minimum requirement for every Bike Bag manufacturer to publish Torture Test results.
Trico Iron Case does this by dropping the case, throwing it out of moving vehicles, running it over with a truck, and even shooting it with a gun. And using cartons of eggs to see if any cracked.
Some of these tests are obviously overkill, but others tests are 100% the type of scenarios you can expect to happen in real life by real baggage handlers. Whether by accident or negligence.
I think another phenomenal thing about Trico, is the owner is honest about the shortcomings of the case. Which are its weight, cumbersomeness, and trickiness to re-pack if TSA is involved in your country. The advantage of some of the soft shell zip-ups is that TSA is unlikely to screw up repacking during their bomb wand test, as long as you don’t overpack your bag.
So it’s a balancing act of: Mitigating risk of Baggage Handlers and/or TSA, maneuverability, packing ease, and weight. The weight and packing is easier to quantify, but the risk mitigation is tougher without a large dataset or published test reports, which to date, I have almost never seen from most manufacturers except Trico.
