This is true of Carradice specifically, I've had a couple with comically short straps that were a pain in the patooty to work with. Longer straps are the ticket there, although this doesn't really matter for the OP. Sackvilles fit Brooks and Berthoud.
On Sunday, December 20, 2020 at 1:12:37 PM UTC-8 Patrick Moore wrote: > FWIW, one can make most saddlebag straps work with most mounting loops, be > these integrated with the saddle or bolt on, simply by using longer straps. > I've done this umpteen times (umpteen comes after 19 and before 20). Toe > straps work well, at least leather ones, but there are all sorts of long, > longer, longest leather straps available, from Carradice and many others. > If you have a long enough strap and are patient, you can get 'most any bag > to strap to 'most any saddle, and the bag will happily and securely carry > 30 lb loads. Do this alla time. > > On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 1:16 AM Nick Payne <njh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> No, the bag loops on a Berthoud saddle are spaced about 15mm closer >> together than on a B17, and a Carradice saddlebag, for example, won't fit >> directly to the bag loops on a Berthoud saddle. >> > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/cbae5d43-512e-4b54-9d23-329653c51cb0n%40googlegroups.com.
