Dear colleagues,
I have just bought my first front rack, a lowrider design, no name I think or some imported one and have a question (doubt) where to mount panniers. Should I mount them higher or lower cause I have two parallel bars? When mounted on the upper one the bike feels less stable, but it is cylindrical shaped one and somehow seems more suitable for pannier mounting. On the other hand, at the lower one the bike handling seems more stable and there is 15cm clearance from the bottom of the pannier to the ground. It looks that there will be sufficient clearance when cornering too. However, I have doubt if this bar was actually intended as a mounting location because it is flat bar. I intend to keep my tent, sleeping bag and sleeping mat in these two panniers, so they will be quite light. Before I would keep this equipment on top of my rear rack but it was bulky and troublesome to some extent when loading everything on a train for example.
What would you advise me to do? Thank you.
