+ 1 for this. The Nitto mount RBW sells, or used to sell, is no good for modern saddles with rails that -- unlike those of the B17 -- are not vertical at the rear: when mounted on, say, a Flite, the Nitto angles downward, severely cutting into the space above the rear tire. Design it to clamp to the saddle rails, thus obviating the need for clutter on the seatpost. Such a bracket ought to be very easy and cheap to make -- I've made my own crude versions that require no brazing or welding; my brother has made better ones by brazing up old fork ends.
Another: A nice pump head, but less outrageously priced (ie, only modestly outrageously priced) as the Hiroshi one. And the biggie: a *nice* largish saddle wedge (no tweed, dammi!) that mounts with no saddle loops -- a larger Banana Bag that can hold a 28 oz Rivendell bottle. On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 8:03 PM, Tim McNamara <tim...@bitstream.net> wrote: > A better saddlebag mount for Carradice style saddlebags. The saddlebag > loops on saddles, the Nitto QR mount, the Bagman, etc. all leave a lot to > be desired. All of them allow the bag to sway and move around which is not > good when climbing out of the saddle. > > Jobst Brandt had one on his bike in later years that held the bag rigidly > away from the saddle. It was sort of like stoker stem clamped to the seat > post with the extension pointing back and a T shape at the end for the > saddle and stabilizer loops. Great idea. > > -- > You rece > -- 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.
