Quote Originally Posted by malkin View Post
+1 for little pockets.

My panniers don't have them, but I use a trunk bag too so all the little stuff goes in there.
+1. I'm having flashbacks ot our Katy Tour last fall. We had Nashbar waterproof panniers, which for $50, isn't a bad way to go. But everything small gets lost at the bottom of them. I can't tell you how many times we had to remove nearly everything to find the one thing we were looking for.