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Panniers , panniers are baskets, wicker typically, like you see the rice pickers carry on a bar on their shoulders or some times tossed over the backs of pack mules...what we have are Saddlebags Saddlebags were typically leather (sometimes canvas) connected together by a strap and slung over/under a saddle



While I agree with your version of panniers, that's only one of three dictionary definitions for panniers. Number 2 is "A basket or pack, usually one of a pair, that fastens to the rack of a bicycle and hangs over the side of one of the wheels." So I'd say since our bags hang on either side of the rear wheel and don't go under or over the saddle (rider's seat) that Panniers is probably the more correct term. Also I believe our bikes are a lot closer to bicycles than mules. (Number 3 is an archaic women's undergarment so doesn't come into this. )

I'm still calling them saddlebags tho.

Matt

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