Nice. I made a couple of similar brackets, cruder than yours, but mine had the arms angled upward to accommodate the inward slant of my Flite saddles (and of many other non-Brooks saddles) and therefore had to be cut from plate and bent accordingly. The Nitto design works not at all well with modern saddles for this reason -- ie, the arms slant downward toward the tire, lowering rather than raising the bag above the tire.
Someone with a machine shop and more skill than I could easily make a Nitto-like and Nitto quality bracket for modern saddles. My brother has made a few out of old fork ends, but he can braze and I can't. And it wouldn't have to cost $100, either. (However, I solved my problem by going back to panniers on a rack.) On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 5:12 PM, jar351 <jar...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was pretty psyched when I bought a used Saddlesack bag from a fellow > poster here last weekend. My partner was not. She thinks I spend too much > of my very little money on bike stuff--for the record, she's right--and > besides that, we live in Oakland. So perhaps understandably she responded > to my boyish excitement with a look that said, "you *know* that's way too > f-ing fancy and it's *going* to get stolen." I retorted that I planned to > attach it to my bike with a piece of bike chain and a crap load of zip > ties, but still she was unfazed. Those things would not stop a thief. As > much as I hated to admit it she was right. That's when I decided to the > opposite tack: make the bag super *easy* to detach and carry. I know that > Riv sells a Nitto-made doohickey for just such a purpose, but come on, > $100? That's almost as much as I paid for the friggin bag. > > Anyhow, that's how I ended up making this thing: > > > <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-pz2jSRSID5M/VCdBEfiAUWI/AAAAAAAAB5E/Sch1951fkR4/s1600/IMG_5445.jpg> > For the record, yes, I blatantly copied the Nitto design as much as > possible, and took some cues from another DIYer who had made the same kind > of thing and posted it on Flickr. I couldn't figure out the attachment > mechanism of the Nitto mount from the photos on the Riv site, so I just > made a back plate and sandwiched the saddle rails between it and the main > plate that you see in the photo. Seems to work well enough so far. > > The body of the mount I made from aluminum flat bar, so I'm sure it's not > as durable as the Nitto one, which I assume is steel, but how strong does > this thing need to be? The tube that the QR skewer goes through is just > 1/2-inch PVC but I decided to wrap it in bar tape to avoid the toilet paper > dispenser look. > > I made this in a few hours with no power tools except an ancient > Black&Decker drill and if you don't count the cost of the drill bits and > tap (which I wanted to have anyway), the whole mount cost me about $15 to > make. Most of that was the cost of the aluminum flat bar, of which I have > plenty leftover for other projects. (I already had the QR skewer from I > don't know where.) Anyway, it was a fun project, not just about saving a > little dough. > > More photos on Flickr: > https://www.flickr.com/photos/37784914@N02/sets/72157647694465480/ > > -- > 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. > -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. 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