I've used leather strips, made holes in the ends, then bolted the ends together after attaching a saddlebag. It lived on a bike for a year or so that was locked up outside during weekdays. Never had any problems, of course, I never left anything in it. With panniers that would stay semi-permanently on a rack, I'd probably use small p-clamps around the rack tubing and bolts the bag onto the rack. To take it one step further, you could use security bolts: http://www.bicyclebolts.com/ In that scenario, I'd use security bolts to attach the rack to bike - someone could just take the whole rack w/ bags! It really depends on where you're locking up, and how long you're leaving the bike. If I'm popping into a shop for a few minutes, I don't bother taking bags off. David Chicago
On Thursday, March 3, 2016 at 2:11:13 PM UTC-6, Patrick D Kelly wrote: > > I'm fishing for stories pro/con dealing with leaving bags "permanently" > attached to your bike, and if they've been stolen. > > I'm contemplating getting a pair of backabike bags and leaving them > attached (probably with zipties somehow). Anybody ever had any of these (or > similar) bags stolen off their bike? I'm imagining it's not even worthwhile > for a thief since they're not gonna get but a few bucks for such a thing. > > As a counter-example to what I just said, one time some gloves were stolen > out of a bag on a bike. In this case, I'm sure it was just cuz the thief > had to do zero work. Unzip and just grab what was in the bag. That bag was > seriously attached, and was not stolen. > > In my imagination, riv's saddlesacks are "safer" because to somebody > unfamiliar, it's very confusing. The straps and the 2 layers of flap make > me think that thieves are not going to go poking around in there. Any > thoughts/experience on this? > > thanks > > p.s. Yes, the biggest variable in all this is where/when you leave your > bike unattended. Let's just pretend that I'm very conservative about > where/when I leave my bike locked up. > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
