Tijmen's Bikes and Related Projects

Quit your day job!

Looks sweet dude. Happy to ride with some Wit Slinger stuff

It is absurdly big. Night and day difference with the old one, haven’t been able to stack fabric thick enough to make it sweat. Buttery smooth, lovely sound, amazing.

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Bags (and machine) look sick! I'll shoot you a pm.

Lots of bags in varying states of doneness l, hope to finally be getting some orders out this week after all sorts of stock issues.

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who ordered the sweet bike packing pillows

they have a strap on the bottom to clip to your handlebars for that sweet mid ride nap!

sounds nice an aero

Beyond happy with these pictures. Proper pictures will follow but there’s such an ungodly amount of time in these bags I couldn’t wait.

(Not my bikes obvs.)

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fit of these is bang on, really excellent stuff!

show the surly bag lining

😎 I’ll edit some of the ‘studio pics’ tomorrow.

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Looking forward to mine even more now :)

Bags look great. And that pink bike looks great. I’m just about to order som x-pac myself to sew some bags. I hope I can produce something of similar quality.

If I may ask, what with are the frame bags? Do you taper them?

Cool, would love to see some progress pics when you get going!

I tend to go for 50mm based on both my own experience and what most bag makers are doing. I'd say the range is 45-70mm based on pedaling style, if you're particularly bow-legged or have a bike with wide Q-factor you could go even wider. On my Kona's frame bag I went with 70mm as the low top tube meant I did not have to worry about knee clearance and only had to clear the chainring.

I haven't done any tapered noses on frame bags, I always think it looks a bit clunky for fairly little benefit. If all goes to plan swijland's frame bag will be tapered to follow the twin top tube though. I've also done this on my top tube bags going from 40-45mm in the back and 60-70mm in the front. I do all my tapers in CAD because I cba with trigonometry, but it shouldn't be that hard really.

Thanks for the comprehensive answer. Ill make sure to document my process.

Making myself a couple of bags in preparation for a short trip. Need to finish a couple more, including one that will be mounted along with the frame bag’s lace-up so it still looks a bit sad. I think the seat bag will shamefully be a PlanetX one as I want to sort out a rack / pec dec type solution for something Carradicey.

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Seeing as my tubing choice was too spirited for an artisanal portage handle I opted for a wedge frame bag to still have a bit of top tube for lifting my bike. Still need to do the bar bag and saddle bag!

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Very nice bags. Bike looks good too!

Seeing as my tubing choice was too spirited for an artisanal portage handle

Oi, that's a lovely looking set of bags.

Knew you'd be an SG1 fan

Seeing as my tubing choice was too spirited for an artisanal portage handle

Indeed

Last pieces of the puzzle, fingers crossed everything will fit. The saddle bag has sleeping bag, mat and tent minus poles so that's a decent start. Excuse the crap picture, it's not out of focus though, it's called bokeh, look it up.

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Almost ready. The spacer stack of shame will soon be hidden behind a bag again, worry not.

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This looks good!

Spacers are not shameful!!