SlickerSack initial impressions: Well made, looks impressive. Got lots of interested looks and a few nice compliments at the grocery store on Day 1. I have a Trangia Aluminum Box and a Sigg water bottle I bring to work with my lunch, and they rattled around a lot inside the SS on the way home. Haven't used it since last week 'cause the lid came off the Trangia box and salad dressing messed up the inside a bit. Oops.
I agree with Allan that it comes at a premium price, but there isn't anything else out there that's quite like it. Gotta say that it feels great to have that messenger bag off my back. Steering feels a bit different with the weight up front, but you get used to it within 5 minutes. 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.
