Re: [RBW] Hooks for pannier conversion

2012-07-15 Thread Lyle Bogart
Hey Patrick, Check out Jandd. I've done business with them before and they're great. I converted a pair of old (1920s?) canvas Irish rucksacks into panniers and used Jandd hooks and bungies; worked well. http://www.jandd.com/search_results.asp?customSearch=1&sortOrder=ASC&iLevel=2&txtsearchParamC

Re: [RBW] Hooks for pannier conversion

2012-07-15 Thread David Sprunger
Hi. You can get hardware from Arkel. To see how I used some Arkel parts to convert a set of Baggins Pa Cartwright panniers, here's a link: http://www.cord.edu/faculty/sprunger/bikes/pa/ Good luck with with this project, David Sprunger Fargo, ND On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 4:13 PM, PATRICK MOORE wr

[RBW] Hooks for pannier conversion

2012-07-15 Thread Peter Pesce
You can get OEM Ortlieb hardware from a few places online. It is great hardware. I bought some and used it to convert some old Orlieb motorcycle panniers into bike panniers. I'm not sure about scratching - my racks are non precious. They also seem to be pretty large diameter capacity wi inserts

[RBW] Hooks for pannier conversion

2012-07-15 Thread PATRICK MOORE
I want to convert my "sling over the rack" Axiom "Dutch" panniers into individually mounting bags and I need some sort of sturdy hook that will fit 10 mm tubing and that won't scratch off the anodizing or paint on the Tubus racks. VO has Axiom "LaSalle" panniers that seem to have a sturdy plastic h