Thanks for all the help. Sounds like I'm good with a Berthoud and Sackville Bag connection (Top Priority.) I have no Carradice bags to speak of, so that won't be an issue. Very curious to see how a BagsXBird medium Goldback attaches, not trying to do a lot of jerryrigging with heavier loads, so perhaps the Goldback will be a B17 specific bag. Will let you know how it works out. Appreciate all the advice. One more tidbit. I have replace all the leather straps on my Sackville bags with Voile Nanos, to great effect! Required a smaller dowel at the attachment point for my BagBoy, but now I can really get that bag higher up and further away from the wheel.
Cheers On Sunday, December 20, 2020 at 1:28:25 PM UTC-8 Joe Bernard wrote: > This is true of Carradice specifically, I've had a couple with comically > short straps that were a pain in the patooty to work with. Longer straps > are the ticket there, although this doesn't really matter for the OP. > Sackvilles fit Brooks and Berthoud. > > > > On Sunday, December 20, 2020 at 1:12:37 PM UTC-8 Patrick Moore wrote: > >> FWIW, one can make most saddlebag straps work with most mounting loops, >> be these integrated with the saddle or bolt on, simply by using longer >> straps. I've done this umpteen times (umpteen comes after 19 and before >> 20). Toe straps work well, at least leather ones, but there are all sorts >> of long, longer, longest leather straps available, from Carradice and many >> others. If you have a long enough strap and are patient, you can get 'most >> any bag to strap to 'most any saddle, and the bag will happily and securely >> carry 30 lb loads. Do this alla time. >> >> On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 1:16 AM Nick Payne <njh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> No, the bag loops on a Berthoud saddle are spaced about 15mm closer >>> together than on a B17, and a Carradice saddlebag, for example, won't fit >>> directly to the bag loops on a Berthoud saddle. >>> >> >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/d31aea0e-28d4-4404-a053-165214ffd0fan%40googlegroups.com.
