how about grid gray sackville? If you check my profile, I just have a few miles on a set (mostly the front), and have made a set of thin, removable closed-cell foam liners for them.
On Wednesday, February 27, 2013 11:47:20 AM UTC-6, Geoffrey Klingsporn wrote: > > I like the look of Bob's new setup so much that I'd like to try it myself > on my old Orange QB. Before I drop the extra (hah!) cash, I always find it > worthwhile to ask what might be lurking in the group's collective parts > collection. > > If anyone has a matching set of front and back (small and large) > trunksacks for sale, please contact me offlist. Tweed is great but not > obligatory. > > Thanks! > Geoff > (Denver) > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Robert F. Harrison > <rfhar...@gmail.com<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> It's been raining hard today here in Honolulu with flash flood warnings >> and everything. Of course I was out in it on my Hunqapillar getting soaked >> as met up with a friend for breakfast. Coming home wet as a drowned rat I >> was pleased to see a shipment from RBW. I completely forgot about the >> weather. :-) >> >> I've been continuing to play around with my Quickbeam now that the >> Hunqapillar has become the bike I used for carrying stuff around. Because >> of all the rain we've been having I decided to switch to Gripsters and away >> from Grip Kings (love both, keeping the GKs for other uses). >> >> I also decided that since I have an Acorn saddlebag and a handlebar bag >> they should both go on the same bike. I've also always like trunk bags but >> since I've got a basket on the Hunq (moved from the QB) it can't take one >> right now. But...I was pretty sure my QB would look great with a matched >> set of Sackville TrunkSacks so with a little extra cash (is there ever such >> a thing as 'extra cash?') I picked up new pedals and matching TrunkSacks. >> I'd thought about the Nigel Smythes but as I have a Sackville huge saddle >> bag...well bag matching may not be my thing all the time but... >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/mgps-bob/8499061402/ >> >> It's not a great picture and I'm not taking the bike out as I'm off to >> Maui with my Bike Friday in about 2 hours - I'll be riding down Haleakala >> on Sunday. It's also raining hard and until I put a little Obenauf's on the >> leather I'm going to keep the Sackville's out of the rain. >> >> Anyway it's the look I was going for so...happy trails all! >> >> BTW - for those who might have wondered how the voting is going on which >> bike I should ride April's Haleiwa Metric Century ( >> http://statrix.com/whichbike.htm), right now it's the Quickbeam: >> >> Bike Friday: 10 >> Quickbeam: 15 >> Hunqapillar: 12 >> >> Aloha all! >> >> Bob >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Robert Harrison >> Honolulu, HI >> rfhar...@gmail.com <javascript:> >> statrix.com >> >> -- >> 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-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to >> rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >> . >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
