Greetings,

I have decided that I am going to make my own rear panniers for an upcoming bike trip and save the extra E100 for that nicer bottle of wine in Cordoba. I'm just wondering whether anyone has done this themselves and what advice they would have particularly with regards to obtaining/making fastners for the bags? Will self-made hooks and shock cord do or purchase some fastners from ortlieb (which may defeat the objective of saving some cash)? I'm thinking of something along the lines of what is decribed here by Paul Woloshansky's DIY jobs - http://www.bikechina.com/tb1.html - using the same WW2 canvas bags and putting an aluminium plate on the inside...

Any thoughts?

Jules