Originally Posted by
Pratt
I find my panniers are noticeably less full when I return from a trip than they were when starting out.
I'm just the opposite. In the beginning my panniers are always efficiently packed and everything is so nice and neat and made to fit, with a little extra space left over. A few days later it looks like a bomb went off in my panniers and stuff is hanging outside and I can barely get everything within and some stuff must be relegated on top of the rack. Eventually you hope to find time to create order again.