Bike Buckets & other DIY panniers

[Arch]

2 army surplus bread bags @ £4.50 each. Piece of corrugated plastic glued to the back edge (an estate agent sign, perhaps?) Rixen & Kaul fittings fixed to a bit of wood drilled through the bag and plastic inside if you felt posh, or some hooks from a hardware shop if you didn't. Job's a good 'un.

You could easily make a brilliant set of panniers this way for less than £20. They'd be reasonably waterproof as they came, or totally waterproof if you put some rubble sacks inside.

That stuff, BTW, is called correx, or corroplast, and if you can't find a spare estate agent sign, it can be bought in sheets. Although using a sign does mean there's actually a use for estate agents.

 

[friedel]

You could make backpack panniers instead:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Backpack-panniers-that-are-still-backpacks/

I've been meaning to try both these and the bucket panniers out.