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Sorry to hear about your ill fortune, heal quickly!...Oh and count me in, these look great.
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Alright guys, I'm impressed there's been this much interest so far! So I'm happy to start getting on with knocking these up. I just made another one in the tiger camo fabric (like in the picture of mine above) lined with the cordura and I think I have enough to make another 5 in that fabric. Would you guys mind updating next to your names your preference for colour? If the first people on the list want the Tiger camo stuff then they get priority, equally if you want just plain black that can also happen right now. Then I'll be able to see just how many want the Black multicam and I'll get it ordered up. Thanks!
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Jalopy-Véloist - Black, please.
jonuxuk - tiger camo!
Heitzman - tiger camo
Clemp3
dangeek - Black
mashton - black
nohwolf - tiger camo
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Homemade 'stem cell'/feed bag bikepacking bags.
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Not a full blown for sale post yet, bear with me!
Bit of background first, a while ago I thought I'd try my hand at making some DIY bikepacking bags for my mountain bike, I made a frame bag, top tube bag, handlebar harness for a dry bag and a seat pack all out of some old rain camo fabric. It was a learning curve but as a first attempt they were perfectly serviceable and saw me through some good trips whilst I was in Cambodia (Including a two day, 200km ride, through completely unmapped forest in the North East for which I had to carry 7 litres of water but that's another story).
Following on from this I got a Specialized Awol and made a plan to ride from the UK to Greece and back in the summer so with the benefit of experience I thought I'd try my hand at making some more bags. I have a lot of love for the stuff that Scott at Porcelain Rocket comes out with but unfortunately I'm too poor to buy any of it so I thought I'd try my hand at making my own version of their Mr.Fusion seat pack (complete with mini rack) and a similar set up to the MCA handlebar system. I also made a half frame bag as well as another top tube bag. The bags held up fine over the whole 6500km tour however the one problem I encountered was the common problem of filling the frame bag to bursting and then struggling with the zip. As a result of this I knocked up a full frame bag with roll-top closure (and a zippered side pocket) for the Awol which took a lot of time but I'm pretty pleased with it.
Lately I've made a couple of handlebar/stem mounted feed bag or 'stem cell' bag as they are often referred too, these are a fairly simple bag with a drawcord closure but I think they're fairly useful for snacks or even holding additional water bottles. I'm still looking for work at the moment and was set to participate in a clinical trial (11 days stuck in a hospital style setting) so my original idea was to see if there was any interest in me making a batch of these feed bags for sale so I didn't lose my mind with boredom in there. However last week less than 1km from my front door (sod's law after riding after across 10 countries in the summer) I got knocked off my road bike by a fucking zombie behind the wheel of a Nissan micra. My bike is wrecked and I've been left with three broken ribs and a lot of road rash also for obvious reasons I can no longer do the clinical trial either. This means I still have time on my hands so I thought I'd give this a go anyway.
By now means am I a professional with a sewing machine so I won't claim that what I'm making is as good as the stuff by people like PR, Revelate, Alpkit, or Mack Workshop (all people I have big respect for). The stitching may not be as neat but the stuff I have made for myself has certainly stood up to the test so far. I don't intend to start any kind of long term business doing this, just fill my time for a bit while I'm stuck in limbo.
Here's a link to an album with pictures of all the stuff I've made so far:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4V2zOdRP6_KM2ZQN3hiMGNVLTg
I was thinking of £18 for these including postage (slowly) from York. Currently I have a little bit of the Tiger camo fabric left and some plain black 500d cordura but if there was a consensus on colour I would be happy to order more 500d cordura, I was thinking of the Black Multicam that seems to be very popular?
To start with how about starting a list of interested people below? If this works out I will make a forum donation (I have ran this idea by Velocio).
Thanks, Ben.