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Tool bag from the local hardware store:
Handles cut and fitted with D links to use either as carry handles or straps.
Velcro straps underneath.
Fits MrsE's Pletscher / Raleigh 20, a cheap Aldi rack fitted to a mtb, and a home made rack on a bmx.
Cost: £5 for the bag, £2 for webbing and velcro, a hour or so with a needle and thread. -
So all of these narrow little front porteur style racks that you see, they're all intended to be used as half a rack/decaleur combo?
Yup, however a combination of a Klickfix system and rack can also work if you're handy with a spanner, like what he done.
Ironically, my old school cotton bar bag with steel decaleur work out a lots lighter than the klickfix/bag combo.
MrE
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@Sanddancer
Ah, I never thought of a fishing bag. That looks good, providing I could find a way to properly secure it. My concern is that these bags are all wide and the rack is narrow.
So all of these narrow little front porteur style racks that you see, they're all intended to be used as half a rack/decaleur combo? Are there any modern, quick release, easy to remove decaleurs? I see certain handlebar bags come with their own bar mount systems, but none that are large enough to be used in combo with a rack.