Pannier position

[Twanger]

I've seen on a number of threads mocking references to people who carry a pannier on the left rather than the right.

Why? Just interested is all.....

 

[Piemaster]

Dress whichever way you feel comfortable with

I invariably use one on the right if am going for a lopsided look, the theory being it makes th bike look a little wider and encourages drivers to give more room when passing.

 

[Twanger]

...the theory being it makes th bike look a little wider and encourages drivers to give more room when passing.

That is good sense! Thanks.

 

[PBancroft]

the theory being it makes th bike look a little wider and encourages drivers to give more room when passing.

This is exactly why I have my bag on my right, if I am only carrying enough to fill one. I would even say seeing panniers on the left side only does look a little odd... but I wouldn't mock someone for doing it.

Whatever floats your boat. At the end of the day its just a means of carrying stuff.

 

[ufkacbln]

I've seen on a number of threads mocking references to people who carry a pannier on the left rather than the right.

Why? Just interested is all.....

Single panniers are the work of the Devil.... If we were meant to have single panniers they would not be sold in pairs!

Not mockery at all - it simply is a travesty and a corruption of all things British!

(You could of course do it politically?

Labour voters left and Tory voters to the right)

 

[PBancroft]

(You could of course do it politically?

Labour voters left and Tory voters to the right)

What if you vote liberal?

Some days you put it on the left, some days you put it on the right, and some days you get to work and realise you've forgotten it?

 

[nigelnorris]

I leave my wet weather gear in the same one all the time, so I can just pick up the pannier that is relevant to the day's weather forecast.

 

[Twanger]

What if you vote liberal?

Get a Brompton and sag in the middle, I guess....

 

[Twanger]

Single panniers are the work of the Devil.... If we were meant to have single panniers they would not be sold in pairs!

I bought a single pannier......

 

[2Loose]

Single panniers are the work of the Devil.... If we were meant to have single panniers they would not be sold in pairs!

Oh I wish that were true, I'm still saving for my other half pair!

 

[nigelnorris]

Oh I wish that were true, I'm still saving for my other half pair!

Not only that but if you buy ones that are only available in pairs and then break one, you have to spend twice as much to replace it.

 

[Tynan]

I use one because that's all I need to carry

And right becasue it adds width where it does the most good and if the bike ever goes over, it protects the gears

no brainer seems to me, I always wonder why people put them on the left

 

[nigelnorris]

And right becasue it adds width where it does the most good and if the bike ever goes over, it protects the gears

That seems like sound advice, I might rethink my strategy based on that notion.

A similar idea though for the left hand side is that being right handed I tend to lean my bike with the left side against walls or fences or whatever and find that the pannier takes the rubbing rather than the saddle/bars/paintwork. Must be a fairly easy habit to break though.

 

[Bollo]

Single panniers are the work of the Devil.... If we were meant to have single panniers they would not be sold in pairs!

Single panniers are the work of Ortlieb!

Guilty as charged y'honour - single pannier on the left. As mitigation I state that a single panniered bike is easier to squeeze through the train doors on my commute, and I don't have to pfaff taking them both off trying to mount the bike in whatever quarter-assed arrangement the chief designer of cattle-trucks has dreamt up this time.

Also, as my commuter is a Thorn ST, its pretty difficult to make it look wronger anyway.

I rest my case.

 

[ufkacbln]

What if you vote liberal?

Some days you put it on the left, some days you put it on the right, and some days you get to work and realise you've forgotten it?

You are obviously unable to decide wher to go left or right, another reason for using pairs as we are meant to!