During the winter I always get mildly irritated by having to unclip all my lights and find a pocket in my shorts or bag into which to stuff them. I've been considering how a quick-release spare-pipe space-bar type thing might be devised and attached, as much to ease the unit's removal for standing the bike upside-down for minor maintenance as to aid light-removal when leaving things unattended. Lights attached to a bit of pipe held to another bit of pipe by a QR seatpost-clamp arrangement would also be easy to tweak the tilt of.
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Courier Bag Dying - Replacement Suggestions?
(43 posts)- Started 14 years ago by Wilmington's Cow
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Posted 13 years ago #
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A generic QR system like that sounds like a great idea and would also allow you to quickly move lights between bikes, which is something I find a pain.
At the very least it would be nice if bike light manufacturers could provide an additional clamp with their lights for mounting on a 2nd bike. The cost of the clamp in most cases must be pretty small compared to the cost of the actual light.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Seems Timbuk2 has local competition -
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Performance Tweed™
Every bag tells a story. Made to order in our San Francisco factory, our bags are designed to tell your story -- each one is carefully hand-crafted with colors and fabrics to your liking.
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http://www.rickshawbags.com/laptop-messenger-bags/zero-messenger-bags.html
Someone mentioned a Glasgow company but I can't find it in Search.
Posted 12 years ago # -
I snaffled a canvas army surplus bag that was probably intended as a rucksack, but has the buckles for straps in the right place to be worn messenger style.
I suspect it was meant to carry ammunition and killy boomy things like that, so it's absurdly robust, although it has precisely zero consideration for comfort aside from the fact canvas is pretty breathable.
Posted 12 years ago # -
I still have my 1990s EBC (pre-Revolution branding) courier bag, which seems pretty indestructible and still looks new. Very black all over, basically (except for a small strip of Scotchlite on rear flap). Used to use it a lot back in the late 1990s/early 2000s. Has been lying dormant for a number of years due to panniers taking over. Now found a new lease of life when riding the single speed, which shall remain rack-less and probably Carradice-less too.
However single speed will have a handlebar bag for those essentials: a Finnish Civil Defence bag which is waxed canvas, with a white external finish and a fetching orange triangle front right hand corner. Supported by the VO Rackaleur, it will be kind of a poor man's Carradice, but a bit more unusual.
My real (old school) Carradice is destined for the saddle of the Raleigh Pioneer Trail. Will fix the leather straps to saddle rails with cable ties instead of the official (and overpriced) after market bag loops.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Sorry, not Finnish. Danish Civil Defence bag. Light grey rather than white (quite tasteful to my eyes). Basically a gas mask bag that's not green or cammo.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Royal mail bag ( made by carradice I believe) Free if you have a friend in the postie trade..... can fit a 20inch ride cymbal 2 crashes a set of hi hats and a bass drum pedal.
Posted 12 years ago # -
I like the bar bag, old surplus army bags are the way to go if you dont want specifically bikey stuff. The little one I converted to a saddle bag has done well I've also got an old gas mask bag with leather trim on the bottom that makes an unusual courier/man bag.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Nice bag Crow - I have an old Dutch Airforce gasmask bag I got at uni. It was in poor state when I got it, but scrubbed it, washed it, dyed it and then put a new strap on it (the old one was very short, as was designed to hang around your neck across the chest) and then buffed up the brasswork with some polish and it is still going strong. I don't find it suitable for cycling though as it now hangs under-arm and if you swing it round over your back it just slides back round and gets in the way.
Posted 12 years ago # -
I found that problem too, and I want the bag to sit on my hip so that it's in that sweet spot between bouncing off my leg and being so far round as to cause lower back sweat, so I clip a laptop bag strap from the second strapping point on the bag(going clockwise) to the actual bag strap just under my right arm.
It means the bag can't rotate round my hip any further since my shoulder is providing a bracing point.
The strap that takes the weight of the bag is one of those plastic army belts, so it has holes at ~1.5 inch intervals so I can clip the laptop strap on at whatever point is best for the layers I have.
I do confess it can be diggy and poky when not set right, but it cost five quid overall, so I won't grumble further.
Posted 12 years ago # -
My old EBC courier bag has a (detachable) narrow strap that buckles around your waist, in addition to the main shoulder strap. You clip that around you, adjust it and shoulder strap until tight enough, but not too tight. Doesn't budge from where you want it to be. I think it used to have a velcro-assisted loop for helping to stop the bag working it's way round onto the hip - it connected the shoulder and waist straps directly if I recall - but I lost this some years ago.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Another bag to consider!
http://www.walkerslater.com/shop/ernest-saddle-charcoal-herringbone-harris-tweed
Posted 10 years ago #
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