Home made panniers

[guest18]

Catches arrived from Woolies today, not fitted yet but look just the job. Spent this evening drilling and rivetting when I should have been packing for the weekend  boxes are now one good session away from being ready to start making a mounting frame I reckon  Unfortunately I have to work this weekend so I don't think I'll be able to finish the job in time for the TC rally  Ahh well, have booked the Friday off anyway and am looking forward to a nice gentle blat down the A7 A6 etc  just praying for dry weather now!! 

[guest18]

Haha! They look like proper boxes now  90% finished I just need to add catches to one and corners and lid seals to both. Most satisfying progress 


After that comes the much trickier bit of building a frame for them...

[steveD]

They look pretty damn good, do you do contract work? the equivalent things would cost at least £200 for cheapies and £??? for the stupidly expensive ones and I bet yours are more substantial from your write up and design. And yes the frames are the most difficult. Can't wait to see and get some ideas 

[guest18]

Contract work?  I can barely find the time to do mine lol,  I think by the time I've bought extra metal and fasteners for the frame they'll come in just under £200 in materiels, so the cheapies really are cheap!
They're pretty robust yes, and there are a *lot* of rivets in there! I'd say the upside is you can build *exactly* what you want and you don't have the problem of trying to fit a "universal" mounting kit if your bike is not common (for universal fitting kit, read "fits nothing properly")
The downside is they are relatively time consuming and labour intensive to build. I've just robbed the design straight from the guy whose blog I linked earlier, just made them narrower. I'll *try* to find time to write up the build once they're done, but unfort I don't think you'll see them at this years rally as there is so much else on this week