I think one of the biggest advantages to the Revelate bags for offroad touring, is that when you shift your weight way back, such as going down a steep singletrack, your legs clear. With a transverse bag, you can only throw your weight back until your legs hit. They also don't get hung up on that trailside tree limb you failed to see, like my panniers did once, sending me over the bars (Disclaimer: I use a Rivendell Adam transverse bag on a daily basis and have not owned a Revelate as I don't do any "extreme" off road touring). If you are planning on doing a lot of singletrack riding, I'd go for the Revelate bags.
On Thursday, October 31, 2013 2:10:44 PM UTC-7, Anne Paulson wrote: > > I'm still thinking about setting up a dedicated mountain bike for > offroad touring. As I read journals and articles online, I see that > the various frame bags made by Revelate and others are becoming > popular. Like this one: > > https://www.revelatedesigns.com/index.cfm/store.catalog/Seat-Bags/Viscacha > > And I don't get it. Why would a bag like that, which is small and > which has a small opening so it's harder to load, be better than a > transverse saddlebag such as Carradice and Riv sell? > > I was looking at different bikes at my LBS today, and oh, look at > that, suddenly mountain bike manufacturers like Salsa are selling > rigid bikes as mountain bikes. Hmm. > > -- > -- Anne Paulson > > It isn't a contest. Enjoy the ride. > -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
