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The weaving in and out of traffic thing I don't really get. Panniers are never going to be wider than your shoulders are they? And if you're cutting through gaps that fine then you're more reliant than I'd like to be on drivers (or yourself) never swerving, losing sight of you for a second, not paying attention etc.
The panniers is further forward from the handlebar and are a lots lower to the ground than the rear.
I don't take tight gap through traffic, but gap I was otherwise fine to take, felt a little too tight with the extra width of the panniers leaving less error room.
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Is there a Carradice that could securely hold eg. spanner+pump+tube, an old Dell laptop, an A4 pad, a pair of shoes, a shirt and a jumper? Or 2 litres of milk, a bunch of bananas and a bottle of wine? (meant as a serious question - I've no experience of them). For me, one pannier is almost always big enough and always secure enough for carrying the sort of stuff that I carry around town, to work, from the shops etc. But I wouldn't want to put any serious weight on just one side of the fork, I don't think.
The weaving in and out of traffic thing I don't really get. Panniers are never going to be wider than your shoulders are they? And if you're cutting through gaps that fine then you're more reliant than I'd like to be on drivers (or yourself) never swerving, losing sight of you for a second, not paying attention etc.