I respect your decision to buy a new bike for your upcoming new bag 🙂 On Wednesday, August 24, 2022 at 5:50:38 PM UTC-7 Chris K wrote:
> Wanted to say a quick thank you for all of these really helpful replies. > Being my first post, it didn't appear for several days and I sort of lost > track of this thread. Next thing you know it's a month later and I found > all of your great answers. Haven't bought a bag yet, but it will surely be > one of the ones mentioned here. Delayed the purchase as I'm thinking of > buying a new bike first :) > > On Tuesday, April 19, 2022 at 1:33:41 PM UTC-6 Drw wrote: > >> Another vote for BagsXbird. I was a perennial saddlebag switcher for >> years, but my small bxb bag hasn't left the bike since i got it. I also >> bought a bigger one for overnights/touring. They are expensive but the >> quality is phenomenal and he's really solved/added some cool and useful >> details to the standard design. >> >> On Tuesday, April 19, 2022 at 5:58:11 AM UTC-7 lconley wrote: >> >>> I was unaware that there were Alps in Australia. >>> >>> Laing >>> >>> On Tuesday, April 19, 2022 at 2:00:50 AM UTC-4 Nick Payne wrote: >>> >>>> For a reasonable size saddlebag that needs no rack underneath, the BXB >>>> bags are pretty nice, but also quite expensive They come provided with a >>>> stiffener inside, a piece of dowel to prevent the sides of the bag coming >>>> forward into contact with your legs, and also a nylon strap with hook that >>>> attaches from top to bottom of the centre of the opening to prevent the >>>> middle of the bag sagging onto the tyre when loaded. Here's the one I have: >>>> [image: IMG_20200726_180051.jpg] >>>> >>>> For greater capacity, I use a Carradice Camper Longflap hanging off a >>>> Nitto R50 saddlebag grip and with a Nitto saddlebag rack underneath. That >>>> holds enough for a several day long tour if I'm staying in hotels/motels. >>>> Here it is loaded up for such a tour in the Australian Alps: >>>> [image: IMG_0102.JPG] >>>> >>>> Nick >>>> >>> -- 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/92eaaf00-2c66-4fc7-9e00-11278a4d731dn%40googlegroups.com.
