On Sunday, August 17, 2014 3:41:03 AM UTC-7, Peter Adler wrote: > > There are roll-top pannier people, and there are flappy-top pannier > people. The only way to find out which one you *really* are is to buy the > other kind of panniers, ride around with them for a while, and realize how > much you hate them. >
Indeed. Well, I've decided to give the Carsicks a try; hopefully I am not about to find out that I'm more of a flappy-top, every-little-thing-in-its-place kind of person. (I haven't owned panniers, but I seriously doubt that I am such a person, based on the state of various other things in my life...) Besides the roll-top design and the exterior pockets, one reason I'm going with Carsick is that they have offered to add an additional strip of webbing to the back of the bags at no charge. This will allow me to use the elastic/S-hook attachment with my Nitto R-15 rack, whose lowest bar is only about 8 inches below the top bar, but also move to a more traditional rack at some point without having to swap or modify my panniers. Thanks everyone for your input! Best, Richard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
