Someone wrote: > > I just took a look at them. I still like the tubular shape of the > Carradices. I bought the Hoss when it came out and found that it > wouldn't ride on the top of my Nitto expedition rear rack. That > little bar that sticks up on the front of the rack stuck right up > through the bottom of the Hoss. With the camper longflap, I can just > roatate the bag backward and rest it on the rack, with the seatpost > strap going around that little upright bit that caused the problem > with the Hoss. When I tried to rotate the Hoss back, it pointed up > into the air. I finally sold the Hoss on Ebay. > > It looks like the Sackville bags may have the same problem.
That problem, if it is indeed a problem, was also true of the Adam and siblings: because they were built more boxy and "upright", when I rotated mine backward to fit onto a Carradice mount with a wire rack, the opening was tilted toward the saddle. A Nelson would have been held perfectly upright. But IMO, the boxier, upright-er design of the Adam was nice for someone who didn't want a rack for a saddlebag. Tucked under the saddle, the opening was still upward, not downward as with a Nelson and ilk. But this baggage user has decided that, if he has to use a rack for a bag, he'd rather use it with panniers -- the entire raison d'etre and purpose and entelechy and causam finalem or teleological determinatum of a saddle bag being: ya don't need a rack, right? So it's back to Flys and panniers of varying sizes according to load. Benefits: carry more at need -- including fretless room for an iBook; smaller bag at need; load affects handling less (and, folks, I've used almost all of them); and -- FWIW -- compared to the 2 1/4 lb unladen weight of the Adam, the Fly plus my converted OYB ManPurse minipannier weigh in at about 1.5 lb. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
