My experience is the same as yours, Steve. I've toured with some quite large panniers on the rear (the old Eclipse Professional panniers) and never had any problems with my heels clipping the bags. Many rear panniers are tapered to prevent contact with heels.
Jim On Oct 31, 6:47 am, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 06:42 -0700, Ron Mc wrote: > > yes, and your heels will hit your panniers. > > Heels hitting panniers is by no means a given. Depends a lot on the > specific case: panniers, frame, rack all contribute, not to mention > feet. My heels didn't hit my panniers on any of my touring bikes (and > now, of course, since I switched to carrying panniers on the front, it's > simply impossible). > > > ... > > Was wondering if the backs of your legs hit these bags when on > > a Brooks B17, or anything else. Or is there usually enough > > clearance. > > Or, is the leg hitting the bag par for the course with saddle > > bags. > > Your legs won't contact a Carradice bag when you use a Bagman support. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. 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.
