"I found carrying stuff on the top of the rear rack irritating. It made getting into the panniers a pain"
Same here. One solution is a rear rack with lower rails for the panniers, freeing up the platform area for independent loading & unloading, making the whole thing less of Rubik's cube. Tubus has a couple of racks and the latest Nittos from Rivendell have added a lower rail. Large objects on the rack platform can still get in the way of pannier access but it's less of a problem. dougP On Wednesday, September 2, 2015 at 9:00:32 AM UTC-7, Clayton wrote: > > I found carrying stuff on the top of the rear rack irritating. It made >> getting into the panniers a pain. After years of trying every kind of >> setup, I found one I am happy with. I was running the typical setup, small >> panniers in the front and large in the rear, with bag and tent on top of >> the rear rack. Lots of shimmy. I eventually bought the large Nitto front >> rack and large Ortliebs for the front. On the front, my sleeping bag goes >> in one, tent in the other and the top of the rear rack remains clear, for >> tent poles and Tenkara rod. There is enough room in the front for overflow >> food etc. On pavement it is more stable. I can access all my panniers >> without frustration. I just ordered Albatross bars due to hand issues and >> hope that they work well with this setup. >> > > Claytonious Q (Bend) > -- 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.
