I've thought about ways to cure this rattle. Ideal would be if your rack tubes were so large in diameter that they _just_ fit inside the hooks. I tried to take up the extra space with rubber from cut-up inner tubes, but that didn't work. Perhaps you can find or make bushings that you could clip over the rack tubes. Something like slicing a plastic tube (for example, the barrel of a ball-point pen), then clipping it onto the rack.
You'd still get a little rattle from the lower attachment, unless that, too, is just the right size for your rack. It would take some trial-and-error, and I just didn't have the patience. I went back to my old Berthoud panniers that have a metal spring to tension the pannier, and the problem was solved. (Current Berthoud panniers use an easy-on/easy-off system that probably isn't any better than Ortlieb's.) Jan Heine Editor Bicycle Quarterly www.bikequarterly.com Follow our blog at www.janheine.wordpress.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
