Bike Panniers

[MarillionFan]

I've just got my bike panniers out of the roof. To be fair, I haven't used panniers on a bike for 10 years as I have always used a back pack, but recently because I have to cycle with a laptop as well as my clothes it's been causing me some back pain, so the doc said, use panniers.

Now the problem is, I cannot remember how to fit them. I've got two pannier bags and a new bike, with no mudguard. I cannot rememebr, but I'm fairly sure I attached the panniers to the mudguard on the bike from 10 years back or I had to get some kind of additional rail or otherwise I just had to attach the bags(which I cannot see will work without some kind of solid rail).

Anyone know anything about panniers?

[thunderlizard]

You needed a doctor to tell you that? No wonder the NHS is on its knees.

[OwlHoot]

Don't you need a horizontal metal rack, over the rear wheel, attached at one end to the frame below the seat and at the other end, via a pair of struts, to the rear axles?

[Sockpuppet]

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[hyperD]

I've just got my bike panniers out of the roof. To be fair, I haven't used panniers on a bike for 10 years as I have always used a back pack, but recently because I have to cycle with a laptop as well as my clothes it's been causing me some back pain, so the doc said, use panniers.

Now the problem is, I cannot remember how to fit them. I've got two pannier bags and a new bike, with no mudguard. I cannot rememebr, but I'm fairly sure I attached the panniers to the mudguard on the bike from 10 years back or I had to get some kind of additional rail or otherwise I just had to attach the bags(which I cannot see will work without some kind of solid rail).

Anyone know anything about panniers?

I think you need an old woman and a donkey if I remember from my old Haynes manual.

Ah yes, here it is:



Just need to find an old woman now MF

[MarillionFan]

I think you need an old woman and a donkey if I remember from my old Haynes manual.

Ah yes, here it is:



Just need to find an old woman now MF

Thanks for that. I already have the panniers. If you and Mrs HyperD could pop over later I can cross the other two off
the list.

[hyperD]

Thanks for that. I already have the panniers. If you and the ex-Mrs HyperD could pop over later I can cross the other two off
the list.

Trust me, you're better off with hyperD "that'll do" donkey!

[OwlHoot]

I think you need an old woman and a donkey if I remember from my old Haynes manual. ..

I wouldn't put it past them. After all Haynes, have done Apollo 11, the Space Shuttle, and even RMS Titanic "owners' manuals".

(I have those and others as ebooks.)

[DaveB]

If it;s a new bike it may not actually have the mounting points for a pannier rack. A lot of the Road bikes sold these days don't have them unless they are sold as touring bikes.

[mudskipper]

If it;s a new bike it may not actually have the mounting points for a pannier rack. A lot of the Road bikes sold these days don't have them unless they are sold as touring bikes.

You can get seatpost mounted racks too - depending on how the panniers attach. Look at the topeak range.