Originally Posted by 79pmooney

... Also I wanted yellow panniers simply because I was feeling like my time risking not being seen at night was running out. Learned of the Ortleibs; their quality and waterproofing. But they only had dark colors. I kept bugging the several shops I was going to about yellow panniers every time I went in. One day, the coop manager said he'd heard that a Seattle shop had asked Ortleib to do a custom run using their yellow raft fabric. I asked the manager to look into this; that if if he could get any, I'd buy the first and take tit to all the shops I went to and show them off. He did. I did, Yellow Ortleib panniers are everywhere here now.