Thanks for the compliments. Steve, I'll post load photos eventually. The other day I rode home with ~25 lb in one pannier; it wasn't ideal but it was certainly manageble.
Michael: I'm not particularly handy myself; most of the technique was simply to force myself to go slowly and think about each step in advance. I used a Dremel, cutting at the forward end, so the alteration would be less visible. A Dremel makes a pretty straight cut relatively easy to do. I then used snips to cut long, gradual bevels; and snipped away ~3 mm along the rolled edge along the uncut portion to allow folding. I then used pliers to start a fold along the cut perimeter and finished it off by gently tapping the folds with a hammer. The result is not perfectly symmetrical, but it's close, and of course the manipulation blemished the finish, but again, it's not too bad and it's hidden under the bottom bracket. -- 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.
