M_V's multitude of bikes and adventures in the land of framebuilding

Only just realised how wide the Blackburn rack are compared to my Tubus, how was it with panniers?

Yeah it is hella wide, felt fine on the 1x1 though, haven't really loaded it up properly on the Muddyfox. On the 1x1 I didn't really feel as though the bike suffered from the increased frontal area. I mean, it's a heavy steel framed mtb running on huge 2.4" tyres so its hard work on the road anyway but I don't think the panniers made it noticeably worse. I did get a bit bogged down crossing one ford river, I think the panniers were about half submerged though.