Has anyone tried the new Brooks Land's End panniers? Look like roll- top Ortliebs, but made from a matte, greyish-brown waterproof synthetic with a subtle plaid weave. Look appealing, but double the price of the Ortliebs ($170 PER pannier). My assessment is that everything Brooks makes except for their steel-railed saddles is way overpriced. Too bad. The saddles OTOH are a bargain.
Gernot On Mar 10, 3:10 am, Toshi Takeuchi <tto...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Patrick, > > The Carradice Super C hooks are super nice. They start wide and then > you engage the hook until it locks into the rack. It handles many > widths of racks including my wider Old Man Mountain? rack and skinnier > blackburn rack. The Ortlieb comes with different adapters that allow > you to use it with different racks, so it's not as useful in that > regard because you would have to change out the adapters to use with > different racks (I don't know the maximum width). > > Best, > Toshi > > > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:47 AM, PATRICK MOORE <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks, Toshi. If I remember the Carradice system from the --- senile mental > > fart: forget the -- aha! Kendalls! -- If I remember those properly the C > > system was a bit less bulky than Ortlieb's; I had to grind the outer hook > > covers down on my Packers and smaller front packers to clear the fatter 1.35 > > Kojak when fitting them to the very minimalist Chauncey Matthews rear rack. > > > I must check the Carradices if and when I next buy some. Meanwhile the > > Ortliebs are very, very nice. -- 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.
