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Originally Posted by preachan
I've found plenty of info out there on DIY racks and panniers but little on how to attach them. I've got a tube steel rack and some army ammo boxes (steel).
edit: Almost forgot, is there any practical reason for mounting the boxes slightly dipping down at the front versus horizontally?
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I think there's more ingenuity exercised in fitting panniers onto racks than in making them in the first place
This is how mine are fixed on -
Pins welded onto rack
Hollow rubber receiver on pannier
quick release mechanism on the bottom of the pannier. The other two sets I have just use bolts with wingnuts here to fix the bottom of the pannier in place
Re tilting, I set mine up to be level (more or less) when the bike is loaded up and I'm sat on it. That does mean it'll be tilted when its unladen. If there's any other reason why they should not be level I'm not aware of it.
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