Functional bikes. Not Porn not Anti

do love them crust bikes

Never heard of them before, but I agree. Seems to be this well known bicycle:

^^ Still looks too tight to me, though around here we tend to have more actual gumbo and lots of twigs that would get thrown into that space.
Strange that he seems to be the only one who thought fenders were necessary.

^^ Back to the future with fast johnny tomac

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Functional, though I'm thinking of getting a Genesis croix de fer frameset so I can go 2x and ten speed with even more mounts etc.

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do love them crust bikes

Well, that do you know. Another Crust bike featured on The Radavist:

Definitely not porn-worthy, but here's my Cotic Roadrat near the start of a 195mile ride to the coast. It lives it's life as a fixed gear commuter but since fitting gears for the summer I thought throw it up here.

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My prommuter beast:

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Woah, that looks fast. Very cool. You running Marathon Supremes?

Yeah for now, I think once I burn out these tyres I will try to get some gumwall tyres (to be one of the kool kids again)

fast and hot @HoKe

Cheers, I'm still not liking the idea of the pannier, maybe a saddle bag would look better so I can ditch the rack too.

For commuting large saddle bags can be kind of annoying IMO. A faff to pack/unpack and to remove and refit when locking up etc. I don't like panniers cause of the non-central weight, perhaps you could go for a rack top bag?

Move the rack+pannier to the front wheel. All the cool kids have the load on the front these days.

Deep section wheels commuter. Extra 5 minutes in bed in the morning! Nice work. Really cool bike.

Any recommendation?

Tempting, what's good rack?

Thanks, it also motivates me to ride fast too ;)

Depending on how handy you are, you could use your rear rack up front.

I like that solution, It's smaller and lighter than full pizza, but still give a platform for strapping down larger stuff to and can take full size rear panniers because higher rails than low rider racks.

I like the look of this Arkel one. Seems to be the least boxy looking option.

Arkel Tailrider

i mean rack top packs are full ugly/audaxy type of ting. But the carradice ones are okay.
You could always use a carradice saddlebag with a bagman, easy to access, quick to remove/fit and can fit lots if you want to, especially the nelson longflap. Or front rack with ILE porteur bag would be nice too. There's a lotta options! I have a pelago commuter front rack and it's pretty sweet. Stainless and all.
But yeah for a bike you lock up traditional bikepacking saddlebags are pretty faffy.

Ho, I have one of these you can have for free

Saddle bag works well - leave it on the bike and just put your goods in another bag that you remove when you lock up.
"What did the hippie have in his bag? Another bag."

For commuting large saddle bags can be kind of annoying IMO. A faff to pack/unpack and to remove and refit when locking up etc.

Carradice quick thingy (bagman whatever it's called) is as fast as my Ortlieb panniers.
Reinforcing struts were necessary in my case though, support felt too flimsy on their own, but in @HoKe 's case, if he can get away with only the quick attachment system and rest the bag on the existing rear rack, that would work nicely.