I would love to buy a medium-capacity handlebar bag that (1) straps to the handlebars (requires no rack, hangs down close to steering axis), and (2) has a couple of pockets facing the rider that can be accessed while riding. Something like a (smaller) version of the old Baggins Hobo bag, which seems to still be in demand, at least among members of this forum.
My ideal bag would be a design like Acorn's medium handlebar bag, made with Rivendell's current excellent waxed canvas. Rivendell already offers several nice handlebar bags, and I'm sure they have their hands full with other products in development. But I would certainly buy this handlebar bag if it existed. There's another thread going in which someone is looking for a bag for Bullmoose bars, I bet a Hobo-style bag would work for those too. On Jul 3, 12:58 am, grant <grant...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'll bring this up once every 20 months or so, at most. > > Frost River stole our designs and calls them their own. The guy there > is nice enough, but got desperate, and did this. He goofed up too many > bags in major ways, and was 3 months behind on delivery. We lent him > money, did all the "right & nice" things, and he didn't respond in > kind, not at all. > I don't want anybody to scold him on our behalf. Please don't, I don't > want him to go out of business. I don't think we're selling any fewer > bags because of him...but why'd he have to do that. > I'd LIKE it (don't demand it, even if I could) if we-as-a-group don't > promote Frost River bags here. > > The bags were fine, the fabric was fine---is fine---but the current > fabric (Sackville and Brand V) is truly the best fabric I've ever seen > for this kind of bag. It is drier to the hand---it don't pick up dirt > and get black. It's air-tight---probably 25 percent tighter than any > other fabric except Carradice, and is at least as tight as that. It is > far more waterproof than any Duluth or FR fab. > > Those are nice bags, both, and I swore I wouldn't promote our products > on this free-for-all conversational/informational forum. But I can't > for the life of me understand the attraction to the older bags when > the newer bags are so groovy. The name? Baggins Bags? OK--hard to beat > that one! > > Over and out and calm as a placid pool now. > > Grant "HS designer" Petersen -- 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.
