The bagmatching blues are inevitable when you're dealing with small production runs of fabric, leather, finishes...and those are at the heart of all of our bags. The grey grid fabric is made for truck tarpalins, and truckers don't care. They're just looking forward to the weekends. The same fabric happens to be super for our bike bags, and the maker makes a few runs of it a year---for high volume truck tarp use. I don't want to be the guy who cries out for a certain visibility-of-grid, or insists on them shipping the new stuff back at their expense (the Scots would tell me, in thick brogue, "go to bloody he**!"), and then wreck what started slow but has become a decent business relationship.
I remember a batch of Carradice bags we got many years ago. That fabric stunk to high heaven. Carradice admitted it smelled "a bit dodgy"---a term I'd never heard before, but I can't even see a Dodge these days without thinking about it. They suggested we air them out for a day before filling orders. Tried that, but the stuff was not going away. Maybe it took a few weeks. A less visi-grid is less of a problem than that. BUT I getcha and agree. Same boat, same page, and I imagine I'll get used to it, too. It lacks the classy gangster-Yankee look we all recognize, but hey, the new leather looks kinda nice, don't it? Ultimately the grey grid fab will likely go away. It comes too narrow (36-in, compared to 60-in), and there's more waste. One thing, though. I bet the new look is the result of a thicker, even more superbly waterprooooooof coating. Could be that over time, those fine white lines will resurface. G -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
