I promised I would report on the Ostrich F516 bag when it arrived. It was back-ordered, since I wanted a black one, but it came today, and it's all that I hoped for. Photos to be found here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/am-s/sets/72157647147980622/ The fabric is black nylon, lined with gray. It's well-made, narrower than the bag I've been using, but slightly taller. It just needs to have a decaleur and a tombstone strap added. It comes with provisions for securing the bottom to a rack. Opens toward the rider (the lid is secured with Velcro) and has a couple of smaller front compartments and a very generous map compartment that is sealed at the sides and can be closed at the back with Velcro. The total cost, with shipping from Japan, was just over $70, and it feels to me like a very good value. Of course, whether it *was *will depend on modifications I need to make and the sort of use the bag gets, but at the moment I'm very pleased with my purchase. It's much better built than bags for which I've paid more in the past. On Wednesday, August 27, 2014 10:29:53 PM UTC-4, Sean Cleary wrote: > > Am resigned to contracting one of our domestic bag makers given no bites > on a used front bag. Let me know if you have one for sale, please. I'm not > restricted to Berthoud, I just happen to prefer their stock grey fabric. > > Thanks! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
