Ah the search for the perfect commuting set up! I have no experience with the Pass and stow rack, but they look very nice on the web site. After much trial and discovery I decided that I did not like panniers for commuting. About a third of my commute 30 mile commute was over dirt roads and I found it didn't take much wet weather to get the panniers pretty grimmy. I did use a carradice office bag if I absolutely had to carry the macbook, but otherwise tried to keep everything above the fenders. The Carradice SQR system with a barley bag is still my go to combination. No other system cam match it for easy on & off the bike. But you want to front load. You didn't mention the size of you bike, or your budget, but either the Acorn bag, which also comes on & off the bike quickly, or the biggest Bertoud bag might give you the added front weight you need.
Commuting on dirt roads I found the only hill problem ( and I had about 6 miles of 7%+ grade every day) I had was standing up and loosing traction on the rear wheel. Perhaps on pavement you might be better off standing up and leaning forward to weight the front wheel? michael -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/Y_rvGypKsaUJ. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
