Haha, second reel was awesome. You just got another follower on IG! š Back on topic..those packing cubes are great. I like to use them for multi-country travel trips because they organize contents well. I hadnāt thought about using these on the bikeāgreat idea! Thanks for sharing.
On Sunday, April 7, 2024 at 5:14:29āÆPM UTC-7 Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! wrote: > [image: IMG_6058.jpeg] > > I likely have to do this in parts because Google Groups has been so > temperamental lately. > > Anyway, Iām probably the last to know, but I discovered Something of Great > Help and am passing it along. > > Itās 30 Days of Biking and I needed a post for today on my Instagram, so I > decided to write about my Cotopaxi packing cubes. When I was at the Philly > Bike Expo, Pam and I almost never had time to come back to our room to get > things. The weather in March is highly variable in Philedelphia, so we had > to pack whatever weād need for the day and carry it on our bikes. Pam and I > started with an early morning (chilly!) group ride to a coffee shop, so we > needed warm exercise-friendly clothes there. Then it was straight to the > Expo, and I wanted to wear a cute āfit and not workout wear - a spring > sweater and fuchsia flare pants, so I had to bring them. We needed warm > things for the night ride to the after-party. Water. Snacks. We had our > Sackville bags, and we just took turns rifling through them, stuff flying > out and us carrying on about how we couldnāt find anything. āWhere are my > arm warmers!ā āDid I bring my thermal headband?ā And so on. Several times I > believed I had left something back at the room, only to find it later in > the dark corners of my cavernous bag. I found stray vials of saline, a > Siamese cat sticker, smashed oat bars, loose dolla dolla bills yo, a > gloveā¦This is ridiculous, I thought. Iām going to go home and find some > kind of solution. > > I found Cotopaxi Packing Cubes. You can get them on Amazon or from > Cotopaxi and they are so, so reasonable. They come in colors you donāt get > to choose but will surely be delighted with, and in several sizes. These > are going to be great in my Backabike bags this summer when I do my Chicago > to New Buffalo overnight ride. They weigh nothing. They keep everything > organized and they are cute. I also ordered a Rivendell Mountain Works > pouch from Riv to keep tools in. I decided it would be better for greasy > tools than the light-colored, mesh-sided Cotopaxi cubes. Iām still > deliberating on what I should actually PUT in the tool pouch. > > Anyway, hereās a pic or two and Iāll send the video, which is much better, > in the next post, if the Google Group gods allow it. > Leah > > -- 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/9ee053cd-18ae-4520-90d2-9b8335b3761cn%40googlegroups.com.
