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Solid panniers?

  • 01-09-2010 9:46pm
    #1
    time lord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 606 ✭✭✭


    Anybody bought these yet. They are fully rigid plastic with lids. The only brand I've seen are "Bike Bins". I have good use for them but would like to hear if someone has practicle experience of them.

    Thanks in advance sorry if this topic was covered before:o


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  • #2
    rp
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    time lord wrote: »
    Anybody bought these yet. They are fully rigid plastic with lids. The only brand I've seen are "Bike Bins". I have good use for them but would like to hear if someone has practicle experience of them

    I've one that I used to use (B&W), it was very practical, but tended to fill up with junk: tools, spares. I'd drop a bag with clothes/towel in it for work. It was permanently fixed to the bike, but the lock was crap, fine for mainland Europe, where I lived at the time, less fine hereabouts. I'm now an Ortlieb backroller convert.


  • #3
    BostonB
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    are they not very heavy?


  • #4
    rp
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    BostonB wrote: »
    are they not very heavy?
    Apparently, they weight 2kg, but I'd never noticed cuz they were so full of crap, plus they were fitted to a steel-frame bike with Rohlhoff Speedhub, SON dyno, Magura HS33s - not exactly a lightweight...


  • #5
    rp
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    time lord wrote: »
    Anybody bought these yet. They are fully rigid plastic with lids. The only brand I've seen are "Bike Bins". I have good use for them but would like to hear if someone has practicle experience of them.
    Here's an interesting Bike Bins review


  • #6
    BostonB
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    Looks like a bic lighter would get around that lock...


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  • #7
    kenmc
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    This guy made some himself. Might be worth a shot?


  • #8
    time lord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 606 ✭✭✭time lord


    rp wrote: »
    Here's an interesting Bike Bins review
    Magic thanks for that. Just what I was looking for.


  • #9
    time lord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 606 ✭✭✭time lord


    Bought the panniers on ebay, just the job for me. Fully waterproof.

    You couldn't leave them unattended in public though. As soon as I was out working with them the first van that passed me was a mate and he wound down the window and shouted any post today:o
    Hope this is a pic to them in situ.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/48431260@N08/4990351017/


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