Originally Posted by
Tourist in MSN
As you already noted, chainstay length is an issue. I go to the grocery store on a 1990s vintage MTB and my heel clearance with grocery store panniers is terrible.
I have toured with a friend that uses his mountain bike. He is quite happy with that bike for touring but his panniers had permanently installed hooks to attach to the rack, he had to remove the rivets and move the hooks to get the heel clearance he needed.
I tried three times to attach a photo, but the web site was not cooperating.
Thanks. Are you trying to upload to imageshack or flickr? It interests me. The Inbred has 425mm chainstays and the Surly has 460mm. Thats 35mm which is not enormous per se... But might of course make the difference between touching and not touching!