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finally ordered the parts for this last night,
have also gone through a bit of a "philosphy of use" switch up on bike luggage lately - rackless is out, racked and modular basket is in.
weight is increasingly less and less important to me, gearing increasingly so. with this in mind, in addition to the casette and tool from sjs i ordered the infamous jtek rack to strap my wald to for the homer.
i enjoy the rackless bag but it's not good for actually carrying anything more than a day trips worth of stuff, and useless for carrying things you buy out and about. having the rack on the cross check i find myself using this much more if i need to pick something up or take something somewhere, than the handlebar bag.
and when fully loaded it's the gearing which gets me up the hill, not the kg or so saved from the rack.
with this in mind i've asked @Tijmen to make me a basket bag, i previously had the ww one which i didn't get on with, it was fine but it seemed over built for my intended use, my intended use at that time being what i desired a rackless bag for. coffee and a sweatshirt, aesthetics. maybe i hastily wrote baskets and racks off after this.
however returning to the racks i have been using a bag for life in a wald with a cargo net, this can't be improved upon, it's modular, expandable and cheap. nothing can beat this. however one must buy objects to keep the fear at bay and somehow distract themselves from living on gremlin island. realm dark label makes the perfect wald bag, so it started there, but even then i thought it was a little over built for my needs, padding at the sides? side straps? none of this needed once you're carrying stuff. at least i found from chugging my bag for life too and from south norwood.
speaking to tijmen they agreed with me and pushed me into the not needing the side straps especially as i use a net everywhere (get a basket net, they rock).
i think the downside of the design is it doesn't look as good off the bike, but im only ever going to use it on the bike. why would i use my bike bags when im not taking my bikes? i have other bags for those occasions
Anyway here is the rough sketch, seems fun, the design is v guady but i assume will age well. part of me wanted a tasteful dark grey with olive green taping, but i just thought this looked funny.
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