Do you prefer panniers, backpack, messenger bag or something else for your commute?

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Haitch

Flim Flormally
Location
Netherlands
Only cans, stubbies or half-crates? I think even my chunky porter rack is only rated to 10kg and a full crate of pint glass bottles would exceed that.

Full crate 24 x 33 cl bottles.

My son's rack is rated at 10 kg, but it can bear his 6'2" weight without creaking.
 

martint235

Dog on a bike
Location
Welling
Still, image-wise the bag has baggage. Looking a it one way, t's a bit 'traditional' like something Norman Tebbit would approve. On the other hand, whenever I'm following a cyclist with a Nelson I feel reassured, relaxed and relatively confident of a level of competence.
It's not really designed for modern things like laptops but it carries them fine and with a bagman fitted you get this springy,bouncy support which is probably good for hard drives, microchips and that kind of stuff.
It keeps stuff dry.
:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl: I wouldn't ride near me then!!!

I'm still amazed at how dry they keep stuff though. Brought my laptop in through the rain this morning with not a drop of moisture on it.
 

prawny

Active Member
Location
Cannock Chase
SQR Slim for me too same as Dodgy, Tried messenger bags, backpacks and pannier(s) and this is what I've stuck with, clothes go in a bag for life, food in a sainsbury's carrier, wallet earphones and sundries in an old tesco carrier, got an old folding tyre and a couple of tubes stuffed in the bottom, easy enough to get out without removing everything. I've got a messenger bag at work for when I have to go to the Dental Hosptial (fairly regularly at the moment) but I don't like how the bike feels with the weight all up on my back, it takes a couple of days to get used to it, and I like to be able to add or remove layers en route. My commute is 20 miles each way, so conditions can change en route.

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prawny

Active Member
Location
Cannock Chase
Just about secure enough, I only use a £3 lock to stop builders walking off with it.

Although the other week I got downstairs and workmen had unbolted and moved the whole rack so they could park a van there. So I'd not want to be leaving a decent bike down there.
 
Just fitted a Rixen Kaul plate to a Boardman pannier I picked up cheap last year when Halfords were clearing them out. Will give it a go this week
 

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