Functional bikes. Not Porn not Anti

Exactly. At what point did strong, light, rigid, racks with bags become less cool than floppy rocket-booster saddle bags and bolting stuffsack harnesses to your frames and forks? For actual trail use, I get it. I have the ‘bikepacking’ bags and use them, but for daily, and road/gravel use, racks and panniers are still so easy and foolproof.

Love it. Looks useful and awesome.

Mixed bag of bags. This is my commuter and every-other-flavor-of-road bike. It had to hold a pannier for work, and everything else kind of flows from that. For longer faster rides I put a rack top bag on it and a small bar bag for food, wee frame bag for emergency layer if cold.

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I think they're cheap Elites. Seem to do the job.

Panniers definitely less good on technical trails but for all round usefulness, and not having to obsess over how they're packed, much more handy.

One of my functional bikes. Acquired from the original owner and had a longer seatmast made for it. Ready for some bike travel.

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Excellent stuff here!

This one is pretty great. Francis Cycles? Even the (odd?) bar choice works here.

Correct. It's lovely stuff.
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Oooooh I like this one.

If anyone wants to buy/build me one of those FarFarer trailers I’d be most happy.

Love your bike! Is that rack bag homemade? It's lovely, would it be possible to have more pictures of it, especially the attachement system?

Yeah, DIY. It's been through several iterations but here's an earlier one in cordura that sort of shows the attachment. It has 4x tent pole clips that snap onto the rack tubes. The side ones are on static webbing right at the seam, the fore and aft are on some elastic webbing underneath to keep it in tension.

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Thanks! Did you attach them to a rigid plate inside the bag?

Nothing that rigid. There is some light foam sheet between the liner and outer for shape and the fabric is X10 (cordura is too floppy). The webbing for the hooks is just sewn into the seam for the sides, or sewn straight onto the outer underneath. Really pleased with the tent hooks. I didn't want anything that was a huge faff to take on and off.

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Madness

What in the name of fuck yes is this?

https://www.instagram.com/p/CgyebR3uBl-/

Oh yes.

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