| These are panniers made from my pattern by Marcelo Montanhista.
Photos courtesy of, and copyright 2005, by Marcelo Montanhista.
I like his drawstring idea. Also check out the road shots from
Minas Gerais, which looks nice. These bags were road tested,
and they passed. Marcelo also modified the design for use with
non-plated racks.
I asked him how the design worked for him:
The design works very fine, with the heavy things put
on the botton of the panniers the gravity center goes
down, and the bike ride easier at curves and bad
roads.
The size was good to bring all camping stuff, like
sleeping bags, tent, cooking stuff, on my bike.
>Does the bag attachment technique work well (I see
you use some hardware clips)?
Yes the hardware clips works fine, the only problem is
the noise made by the contact with the support. But we
put some rubber pieces to minimize this. They are not
very fast to put in the morning, about 5 minutes each
bike, to take off is fast, about 1 minute each bike.
>Are the bags secure?
Yes after 400km of unpaved roads all the panniers
arrives!! hehehe
>Have they lasted well?
yes, only some holes at the botton of the packcloth
panniers because of rocks and vegetation in the roads.
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