Re: [RBW] Packing the Sackville Shopsack

2012-02-09 Thread newenglandbike
I have a medium shopsack too, for groceries, and I love it.In fact, I 
want to get another one-   but I notice they aren't on the site anymore.
Where'd they go?   I hope they weren't discontinued with the sale (were 
they?)! I'd be really bummed if that were the case.

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[RBW] Packing the Sackville Shopsack

2012-02-08 Thread Andrew
I made a grocery run mid-day today, enough eggs, bacon, sausage, cashews
and spinach for the rest of the week. When I packed up to ride home, I
realized the clothes and cable locks and food were too much for the
(medium) bag to hold with its zipper closed. What to do, what to do... then
I remembered I had a stretchy clip net thing in the bottom of the bag! That
Shopsack bag worked just fine with its unzipped mouth wide open, brimming
to over-full, and the stretch net kept everything nicely tucked inside - no
broken eggs when I got home.

This was also the heaviest load I've carried on the Wald basket (lashed to
a Nitto mini rack), and it definitely affects steering - the laws of
physics apply equally in Berkeley as they do anywhere else, an object in
motion does not want to be perturbed from its vector. But, with some
persuasion at the bars, the wheel responds and the QuickBeam will lean
nicely through a turn - though it's also slower to jump back up from its
lean angle. I guess all you loaded tourers know this stuff already.

- Andrew, Berkeley

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