Clayton, If the drooping top tube isn't your preference and you're making a bikepack bag for it any way, you could make the bag to fill the space _above_ the drooping top tube. That would give you the straight top line you're looking for and more usable storage space. Customize for your standover height as needed. Also, the zipper could be straight along the side/top edge for easy access without anything falling out. If you want wide open access, you could have the zipper run from the head tube to the seat post and turn down to the top tube. If the zipper were flat along the top, it should be a fairly easy bend to run down the rear of the pack. Cover the zipper with a canvas flap to keep the rain out.
Tim On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 2:24 PM 'clayton bailey' via RBW Owners Bunch < [email protected]> wrote: > If I buy, I will go with the fillet, since I can’t have my lugs and light, > straight tubes like on my PERFECT Toyo Atlantis. (childish stomping on > the ground, whiny pouty face😫). The fillet version takes me back to the > eighties, and the high end, custom mountain bikes I couldn’t afford. I > can’t afford a custom lugged bikepacker for wide tires now, but I can save > up for the fillet Boots (gets up to put another ten in the piggy bank). > Grant designs some of the best steel bikes in the world IMHO, so I will > trust in that. I like the badge, the name, the graphics and I’m wrapping my > mind around the dropped top tube. What I find funny, is that once I get the > bike and ride it, all my drooping top tube dislike-silliness, will vanish, > and I know it. It will be another perfect bike, because I expect it to be. > I expect the details I have concerns about will be cleaned up and am > looking forward to hearing about it’s further development. > > I was going to make new bikepacking packs for my Atlantis this winter, but > I think I’ll wait and make them for the Boots. Making the frame bag will be > fun (steering my brain to like the drooped top tube 😏), but am a little > stumped on how to run the zipper without things falling out, or a wrinkled > curved zipper that might hang up..🤔 I’ll figure out something > esthetically, to compliment the frame, hopefully. Canvas X-pac probably, > depending on what color the Boots is. I am getting slightly excited. > > MY ‘Nature Bike’, perfectly executed? (I much prefer ‘Nature bike’ over > Hillybike). The drooping top tube bothers me esthetically, but will > really appreciate the first time I don’t rack my nuts! Another word like > beausage needs to be made up for the beauty, and the ‘advantages’ of a > droopy top tube, to make it more appealing (to me). Any suggestions? > Mumble....thinking......I was thinking maybe, ‘Notanutter’? Sexist. Never > mind. Crotchless top tube? No, underwear....Nuttergutter? I am failing > badly at this....Sexist again....but crotchgutter is ugly and weird. We > need to seriously work on this....”Crochcanyon?” Getting rid of the whole > crotch thing would be nice, but I keep coming up empty. 😝 Mongol > saddle....hmmm... > Aha! I got it.........”The MONGOLOTUBE”! Now that I have a name for it, > and an appreciation for Grants description of the riding style of the > Mongols, I am good. Any better suggestions? Now I need a name for the > frame bag I plan on designing, for the bike I don’t have, for more help > getting my brain to love the Mongolotube. 🤣 I am such a dorky bike > nerd.....and the naming thing is fun, so ”The Mongolo pack”? > > Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Love your family. > > Clayton > #dirtdancedesigns > > -- 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.
