If your commute is a relatively "mild" one (i.e. not too heavy or unbalanced a load in the panniers, terrain is not too rough, distance of say 10 miles or less), I'd expect you'd be able to live without ever attaching the panniers at the bottom. You can use two bungee ball cords (mine came with four, I believe) to attach them through the eyelets on the top to the front and back of the rack's top. That took me a minute the first time; 5-15 seconds after a few times. Detaching them was similar at first and is now <5 seconds. Attaching them at the bottom will require reaching under them (probably bending down to do it) and took me a couple minutes per side the first few times I did it. Now I do it in less than a minute total. I don't do any of this stuff every day. I've done it maybe a dozen times total. I don't commute with my panniers right now. (I may start when I need more clothes in winter; but currently I use a SaddleSack Medium and sometimes a BarSack along with it.) The panniers aren't "click-in" or "plug-n-play". But it isn't really all that tedious either. Of course, *anything* is *extremely* tedious when it is the thing you have to do before crossing the tracks to catch an inbound train that's almost at the platform! (I'm a multi-modal commuter.) I have arranged mine thusly for use on my Hillborne with its Nitto R-15 (look at the bottom of the thread for the best set of photos): https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/OnoYpFJB90I/discussion Yours, Thomas Lynn Skean
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