Another vote for the barley being a tad small. Good bag, but other than tools/spare tube and a sweater you're not fitting much in there. For Carradice, my faves are the camper and camper longflap. BUT you should take a long hard look at a Saddlesack Medium or Large. Those bags combined with a nitto top rack are ridiculously useful and well designed.
-Matt On Wednesday, April 18, 2012 6:44:58 AM UTC-4, doc wrote: > > I found the Barley too small for day rides and went with the Pendle. > For both bags I inserted hard plastic backing to help them maintain > their shape (cut from cat litter tubs). For both sprung and unsprung > saddles, a Midlands bag support at $7.00 works great and keeps them > from swaying, plus prevents them rubbing up against the backs of my > thighs. > > I love the looks of the Carradice, but I wish they had different > fasteners than the traditional buckles. They can be cumbersome, > especially in winter when wearing a pair of gloves. > > On Apr 17, 11:59 pm, charlie <cl_v...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Thought of Barley until I purchased a Nelson Longflap.......and glad I > > did. The Barley would be too small except in ideal weather (for me) In > > the summer I use a Banana bag for tools,tube, wallet and phone but in > > the rainy Northwest I need capacity for rain gear and a change of > > clothing etc. for the other nine months of the year. I imagine a > > Barley would be a nice bag to leave on all year with perhaps another > > (maybe a front bag) to supplement. I rack my Nelson now and am in the > > process of building a spartan rack / bag support / light mount. This > > rack will be made with the idea of adding and extension piece for a > > full rack when I want to camp or whatever. Still working on the > > design.......with bags more is better when you actually want to carry > > stuff. When you go big you find stuff to carry that you might actually > > need or want to make cycling more enjoyable and less of a "stranded in > > the middle of nowhere without what you need athletic event." ; ) > > > > On Apr 17, 2:36 pm, Peter M <uscpeter11...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thinking of getting a Carradice Barley saddlebag but wanted to ask if > > > anyone here is running one currently and how they like it. Also do you > > > need a bag support with this thing like the now discontinued Hupe, and > > > will it work with a sprung Brooks like the B72? Thanks to any help > > > anyone can offer. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/bgLIreamQBgJ. 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.
