I'm impressed, but I recognize your priorities: 3 bottles of wine over other goods. :)) And what will one do with a quart of mayo? I bought a 10-12 oz squeeze bottle of organic mayo from whole foods for car camping trips 5 months ago. Just tossed it Sunday after a trip to Death Valley this weekend because my ice ran out and ice chest items seemed warm.
Mike SLO CA, enjoying a tall bottle of Figueroa Mountain Lizard Mouth Imperial India Pale Ale. On Sunday, November 8, 2020 at 2:12:02 PM UTC-8 Patrick Moore wrote: > The usual poor photo, but not for lack of trying. Point is that I am once > again surprised and pleased at the Medium's capacity. I just carried home 3 > bottles of a surprisingly good but cheap ($8 on sale) Aregentinian Malbec, > a half-gallon of milk, a quart of vegan mayo, toothpaste, and 2 pint > packages of ready-made salad. I could have easily fit, instead of the > half-gallon, a gallon of milk and a half-gallon of real mayo and had some > room in the main compartment to spare. The side pockets are 1/2 to 3/4 > filled with bulky tube with sealant and generous ride kit. (Vegan mayo and > half-gal milk limit because Orthodox Christmas fast begins in a week.) > > This easily expands to the full volume, 23 liter of the Camper Longflap, > and the expanded volume is usable, while the Camper Longflap's is far less > so, at least without slow and careful packing. The Camper LF might carry a > bulky jacket inside the expanded flap more easily than strapping it to the > Sackville's loops, but all-in-all, the Sackville is a better, that is more > useful for carrying. Of course, it's a higher-market product, too. Another > perspective: The Medium can carry as much as or even a bit more than a > single Ortlieb Rollerback pannier with neck extended. > > And it leaves at least a generous inch of clearance over the 50 mm > fenders, which are themselves generously situated above the 40 mm tires. > > The disadvantage of this , at least for my bike, is that they interfere > with and deflect the rear brake cable, so that the rear brake does not > perform as well (it works well enough nonetheless) and that the cable will > eventually wear the contact area (but I daresay only after a long while). > > Still and all, once I get my rack, I will as always over 30 years, go back > to panniers. > > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/d3c27ebc-d9a0-4659-a004-3b26bb712655n%40googlegroups.com.
