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Since I've been using the cycle path on the road I've been hankering more and more to the commuting without water proof clothes and reflective strips etc.
Tempted to replace my metro messenger bag with a "trendy" looking pannier (like a shoulder bag).
Any one tried these sorts of things out?
Not sure what ones you mean - like the Ortlieb backpack?
A year or so ago we discussed rucksacks that can hook on like panniers, There was also some discussion about Basil and Fastrider products that had more emphasis on bag and less on pannier.
Are you looking for anything in particular?
Looks nice, you are supposed to take it off the rack when you stop and use it as a bag I assume. I fear I would overfill it.
I've recently started using a Union 34 bag that I got given to review, and it's rather fab. Easy connection to the pannier rack, converts in minutes to a courier bag style thing, the pannier connections sliding out so they don't jag into you.
And given the astonishingly cheap price on Amazon just now I may well invest in another...
Love the looks of those New look bags. basil has some new ones with similar lines.
@wc good price. I appear to have purchased using my wife's Amazon account, seems to be a hotline. Then it suggested I would want to buy 30 plastic shot glasses and a packet of table tennis balls. Who buys such items?
The bag you linkeeeeeed to was 25l capacity. I will still overstuff. But was needing a new bag (not for bike) as my Roman canvas attaché has only lasted twenty years and now the zip has gone. Rubbish.
@gembo oopsie!
Hmm. I seem to have purchased the Union34 pannier rucksack for £14.99. On my Amazon account,not my wife's.
Wilmington's Cow: are you on commission?
I don't need a new bag or have a wife. Do I have to get this bag to fit in at the next PY?
Also a 30L rucksack (with D-lock holder and laptop sleeve) version for the same price, but the wheelside surface goes against your back, so can only be used by people whose panniers somehow remain clean.
Mrs Gembo - what is it you bought?
Gembo- a bag
Mrs Gembo - TK maxx is better for bags
Gembo - What with fasteners to fit on to your bike rack
Mrs Gembo - I might have known this would have been something cycling related.
Some of the details on this bag my wife has kindly bought me are 600DN water resistant (not sure what that means), further cover for wet weather, another ? Cover and padding to hide the pannier fasteners. All for fifteen Mrs G pounds. Bargain.
@Wilmington What's it like in terms of camera/lens capacity? I need a new camera/shoulder bag and it'd be handy if it had clip-to-rack capability built-in...
ooh. that backpack won me over. not too keen on the look of the shoulder bag, but have been wanting a pannier backpack for a while. it's not particularly 'cool' looking, but at that price...
Perfect.. Needed a new small bag.. Added bonus that it is a pannier. Interesting (or maybe not!) that right hand bag at £15 , but Left hand bag at £50!
Maybe someone sneaked ahead to get the last left-hand green pannier at £15 due to already having a right-hand-only Karrimor Iberian.
@wingpig, it's big enough to fit my camera with its 500mm lens. I tend to put some bubble wrap in the bottom to stop rattle. There's one big main compartment, then a couple of zipped compartments at the front, and a laptop compartment at the back (pannier rack side) with a complimentary padded sleeve - I 'would' be worried about a laptop or tablet against the rack like that).
For smaller camera use I've just lumped the camera in a couple of times, but I'd be tempted to take the strap off a teeny crumpler I have and used that within the pannier bag.
Head turned by the New Look bags of course!
But I may make the same, ahem, 'mistake' as gembo and order a Union 34, given there's one sitting in my basket just now...
Oh, and for road dirt on the back of the bags, there is a flap which then swings and clips out the way so (allegedly) you don't get it on your clothes - not been out in rubbish weather to test this yet...)
Think I might have nabbed the last £15 left hander....I suspect there will be a lot of activity on the "spotted" thread in the next week or so.... :)
@wilmington cow - I do not think mrs gembo would tolerate the same mistake if you made it (I was sort of due a present but I think bags all round would lead to the foot being put down).
But does sound like you may have made a similar mistake?
I could enter this in the Forum Pedantic comment of the year?
There is an article in new statesman, opinion dressed as fact about SNp not being left wing. Gets flamed by cybernats in the comments. But right at the end one of the commenters picks up on the grammar of another commenter as follows
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Loved it.
Hey Stickman,
yep that's actually the one I was looking at.
I'e never used panniers, always a messenger bag and I'm a bit worried about it standing up to the weather..
My bag arrived, many pockets and attachments and straps to figure out. Very good value for fifteen pounds. May cause issue going through the x-Ray at airport as they will be querying the hidden attachment slot. Not sure which bits click where but instructions minimal so assume obvious. It has a padded sleeve for laptop that is removable. Some reinforced bits around the edges, a waterproof cover, a flap that the cover goes in which could also take a rain jacket, it kind of hangs off the bag but can be tightened with its own straps. and an expander zip. I may never attach it to the bike but it does have a robust way of doing this. All good. Sorry to go on, just trying to distract myself from five more years of Tory rule.
I haven't found the D-lock holder bit yet.
The flap thing I was pondering over is meant to wrap under the bag as a kind of protection and then a bungee hook is exposed for hooking on to the pannier rack.
My rucksack also arrived today. Quite a clever design, although the pannier hooks aren't a patch on Ortleib. For £15 I'm not complaining.
@edonald774: my New Looxs bag will stand up to a strong shower but prolonged downpours will probably be too much for it. I think Halfords stock them, so you should be able to take a look at one in store.
Drat. I ordered mine sent to work, and while I was there today, reception was not. Hope they redeliver on Monday!
got my backpack/pannier now too. looks pretty good. the fabric/zipon the back looks a bit flimsy/hard to zip/unzip. definitely not a swift transition between backpack and pannier. but otherwise pretty good. we shall see...
My second pannier is now on the bike. Given I got the first one for nowt to review I've got them for £7.50 a bag basically. Result. I already had the grey, so probably should have matched up colours, but for the right hand fitting I much prefer the olive green, so I'm mismatched and proud.
Never thoguht I'd veer away from Carradice, but these are just so much easier to carry about, and much more compartmentalised so I can separate things more easily.
As mentioned above the clips onto the racks are perhaps a bit 'simple' compared to Ortlieb, and time will tell if they last (though you can buy spare clips given that bit just slides out). Two pannier commute into town tonight for a thang will test them out in the wind!
I lack confidence in bungee-hooks at the bottom of panniers since such an arrangement leapt off on Morrison Street a few days into pannier-usage. However, I have a spare Vaude QMR locking-hook currently loafing around in my parts cupboard. Might look into tethering the hook-cover panel to the hook rail to avoid having to stow/retrieve it with each switchover. I'm also extremely likely to permanently bolt the hook-rail to the mount-thing just in case it decides, as have most things on my bikes which were not bolted down, to detach itself.
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