Rear racks for Ortlieb panniers?

I'm about to give in and buy a pair of Ortlieb Roller Plus waterproof
panniers.
Has anyone got any recomendations or warnings about the best rear rack
to go with these?
The only threads I can find had one warning about not using them with
racks with a dogleg.

Thanks
Jake

"Jake" wrote in message
om...
I'm about to give in and buy a pair of Ortlieb Roller Plus waterproof
panniers.
Has anyone got any recomendations or warnings about the best rear rack
to go with these?
The only threads I can find had one warning about not using them with
racks with a dogleg.

Google for ortlieb dogleg found two answers : one saying don't (from 1996)
and Guy saying do!

cheers,
clive

Jake wrote:
I'm about to give in and buy a pair of Ortlieb Roller Plus waterproof
panniers.

A sound choice IMHO. I've been very pleased with mine.

Has anyone got any recomendations or warnings about the best rear rack
to go with these?
The only threads I can find had one warning about not using them with
racks with a dogleg.

I can't really see why not. Ortlieb's fixing system is highly
configurable and should be easy to adapt to pretty well anything (mine
usually travel on my rather non-standard recumbent racks, but they've
been for a ride on the doglegs on my old tourer and the non-doglegs on
my MTB okay).

Overall I'd say doglegs were better as they help control the motion on
bumpy roads with heavy loads, but as long as the rack is anything
half-decent I can't envisage much in the way of problems.

Pete.
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Peter Clinch University of Dundee
Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Medical Physics, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
net http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/

I've used a pair of Ortliebs for 10 years with doglegs on all the bikes I've
used with them. The dogs aren't very happy but the bags are delighted!
No problem with most carriers.

A £20 Topeak rack suits them fine. As someone else has mentioned they are
very adjustable.

As panniers they are great, recent upgrade from a pair of Alturas has me
convinced.
Don't look at their webpage though, to many things that are tempting to buy!

"Jake" wrote in message
om...
I'm about to give in and buy a pair of Ortlieb Roller Plus waterproof
panniers.
Has anyone got any recomendations or warnings about the best rear rack
to go with these?
The only threads I can find had one warning about not using them with
racks with a dogleg.

Thanks
Jake

schreef ...
A £20 Topeak rack suits them fine. As someone else has mentioned they are
very adjustable.

But a Tubus is *the* rack to match your German bags ;-)
www.tubus.net

As panniers they are great, recent upgrade from a pair of Alturas has me
convinced.
Don't look at their webpage though, to many things that are tempting to buy!

Right, so I'm not the only one who suffers from this?!

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Regards,
Marten

"Marten Hoffmann" wrote in message
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schreef ...
A £20 Topeak rack suits them fine. As someone else has mentioned they
are
very adjustable.

Oops, I meant TorTec

But a Tubus is *the* rack to match your German bags ;-)
www.tubus.net

Damn you Marten, I'm gonna have to have a look now!

As panniers they are great, recent upgrade from a pair of Alturas has me
convinced.
Don't look at their webpage though, to many things that are tempting to
buy!

Right, so I'm not the only one who suffers from this?!

LOL, no!

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Regards,
Marten

In message , Bob
writes

"Marten Hoffmann" wrote in message
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schreef ...

But a Tubus is *the* rack to match your German bags ;-)
www.tubus.net

Damn you Marten, I'm gonna have to have a look now!

I'm fan now of Tubus racks, they are lovely and sturdy and well
constructed.

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Chris French, Leeds