The "romance" has overtaken me! Panniers, saddlebag, handlebar bag, folder "frontbag", rack trunk, frame bag, basket bag... as long as it's canvas and supported by steel and/or leather if at all practical... I love it. As for Arkel/Ortlieb/other... the fine well-engineered examples have decided advantages... sometimes it's shape, rigidity, organization, ruggedness, sheer size... But I love the romance. So give me canvas.
Saddlebags for a more carefree, lighter approach, with or without a rack. Panniers for larger loads or more potential. Front bag on the Bike Friday with its Brompton-style luggage mount. Handlebar bag for accessibility (though nothing beats RandiJo's Bartender for sheer convenience). Basket bags if baskets are already attached from some prior particular need. Rack trunks hold tools up front and a growler in the back. Precisely because I can not just settle on which bag type is generally more useful/appealing I often end up (over years) with the near-complete "gruppo" of any bag brand/design I find appealing. Though of Ostriches I still have only the one bag, the DLX pannier. The Big Bicycling! Excellent equipment! Yours, Thomas Lynn Skean -- 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.
