The Sackvilles are hands, knees, and toes better than anything else out there; almost too nice for a bike. I was lucky recently to score a well used but still very decent Large one for $100 off the list, and that included shipping, so I'm very happy. I had earlier owned a new Medium, sold because I find panniers more useful, but the large is very much closer to my Roller Packers in usefulness.
I hope Rivendell isn't planning to stop making the Sackvilles? That is what "scramble" seems to indicate. I also owned 2 Cartwrights, the Adam and the Hoss, and those were nice, too, better than the best Carradices; but not nearly as nice as the Sackvilles. And I've owned many, many Carradices. There's no question that some, at least, of the later Carradices are far inferior in quality to the best Nelson LFs and Camper LFs of the '90s. All that said, I have a nostalgia for the Carradices of the 1990s, the old black ones. Not nearly as good as the Sackvilles, but no corners cut, either; rather like a RB-1 compared to a Masi. (Or something.) And what about the first little saddlebags sold by Rivendell in the first years, those with the ties instead of buckles? I somehow came across one a couple of years ago. I think my brother has it now. On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 6:52 AM, Grant Petersen <[email protected]> wrote: > At some point in the distant but forseeable future there will be a > scramble for sackville bags, and it will be lead by those who already have > a bag made with the highest quality materials and a flat-floored pouch that > doesn't tilt the load, and has a stiff lower lip and a flap-tongue that > contains the stuff inside so securely that the straps are almost > superfluous. "distant" is underterminable, but is not a ploy, and > "forseeable" is in sharper focus. Debate and wait all you like--the bags > are expensive, no doubt, but in 22 years of business, I've run into only > four vendor-suppliers (out of a thousand?) whose quality standards were > higher than our own, that never needed "guidance" or ramping up, and > Waterbury Leather Works--who makes those bags for us in Connecticutt—is one > of them. > > -- 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.
