...chirp chirp... ...chirp chirp... >From the sound of the crickets I must conclude that either:
(1) the SlickerSacks completely and utterly rivet their owners to their bikes; owners have no further desire to merely discourse on riding when they can ride with the wonderful magical everyone-should- get-one SlickerSack or (2) the SlickerSack is not RBW's best-selling bag Now, since "the market" is a tricky thing, I acknowledge that (1) and (2) are not mutually exclusive. And even *if* only (2) is true, that also is understandable; the SlickerSack is not anything like a bag that pops into everyone's mind as soon as the phrase "bike bag" is heard. It has a very-not-cheap pre- requisite (which itself has a not-very-cheap pre-requisite!). It has few organizational features (it has a top! and sides! and a divider you're told not to use! :)). It has a "unique" shape (is there a name for its shape? besides "irregular round-cornered sorta-hexagon", I mean). In its element, it *looks* like it would work beautifully. It's a trunk and a shelf. Neat in a storage-area-under-the-bed sort of way. It *looks* secure and sturdy on the rack. I like its unique shape quite a bit. I know I'd love packing and unpacking it. I'd probably even use the divider. And surely there's no better canvas out of which to make a bag; the Sackville all-cotton canvas is truly wonderful stuff. I have enough of it to know. (Still don't get the appeal of the Grid Grey's look. Just doesn't work for me. I'm sure it's at least as tough and functional as the green is or the black was. But still... it's grey! it's got a grid! I am not a fan.) These, however, are my musings. My wonderings. My hopes. My expectations? They are not information. "What do you want?" "Information." "You won't get it!" "By hook or by crook, we will." Yours, Thomas Lynn Skean On Sep 30, 8:13 am, Thomas Lynn Skean <thomaslynnsk...@comcast.net> wrote: > Enjoy, Doug! And I'd love to hear any early impressions you develop. > > I've had a PlatRack for a while now and also did some cutting to make it > work. But man is it a nice stable platform. Holds my SaddleSack Medium > nicely; I expect it will work with the large too. But the SlickerSack would > be a nice for camping, I think. > > Yours, > Thomas Lynn Skean > > On Sep 29, 2010, at 9:15 PM, Doug <yengamg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > My new green SlickerSack and Platrack arrived today and is consistent > > with the leather strap configuration you describe as current on the > > website, Thomas. Sorry I can't describe my experience yet, but the > > journey starts tomorrow morning. Platrack installation was pretty > > straightforward but required a bit of problem solving, mostly > > involving the diagonal braces. Ended up having to cut ~2 cm off the > > top so the SlickerSack would sit level. > > > Doug > > > On Sep 29, 1:24 pm, Thomas Lynn Skean <thomaslynnsk...@comcast.net> > > wrote: > >> Oh, I see. Well, to clarify... > > >> There are differences between the green and grey ones depicted on the > >> web-site. The green one has leather straps in the front. And all four of > >> its rack straps are sewn on the bottom and snap on the side. The grey one > >> had leather straps on the side, not the front. And all of its rack straps > >> are sewn on the side and snap on the bottom. > > >> However, I'm aware of at least one green bag in the wild that is arranged > >> like the grey on one the web-site. > > >> So I take it that there are two different kinds of green bags out there, > >> one like the green bag on the web-site and one like the grey one. If I > >> were to get a green one now, I believe it would be like the grey one on > >> the web-site. That is, I believe that's the style RBW's selling currently, > >> regardless of color. > > >> So I guess I'm looking for experiences with bags of any color like the > >> grey one on the web-site. > > >> I take it that's not like yours. > > >> Thanks for sharing, though! > > >> Yours, > >> Thomas Lynn Skean > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
