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You don’t find your bags sway too much?
I’m realising now that I’ve never actually run my Carradice without some sort of support. I got the SQR when I got the bag I think, then made my own rack to go on the SQR block, then made the one that was the SQR rack combined with the Classic rack and now I just run the Classic rack.
I think I must have felt the movement with just the stock SQR rack was annoying so that’s why I started making my own and customising them. I imagined the stock SQR and strapping directly to the seatpost give pretty similar amounts of movement.
Edit: Actually, I think I strapped my bag directly the saddle and post for like a week or two and got fed up with doing and undoing the straps to move it between bikes so that was another reason to go to the SQR system.
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I've been a carradice saddle bag user for at least 15 years.
I've got three, a really big one, a middle sized one and a tiny one. Without being arsed to look up the names, I think it's a camper, a barley and a tool roll handlebar bag.
I have a QR clamp thing on the saddle rails of each of my bikes, for the saddle loops to hang off. I strap the bag to the seatpost, using the seatpost strap, that looks quite a lot like a toe strap.
My question is, what does the Bahman wire loop support strut thingy bring to the party, that I have never had a need for in all those years? Surely they look ugly when no bag is on the bike?
Maybe because I have long legs and a lot of seatpost to strap to, I don't need it. Or I just don't care about the backs of my thighs touching the bags. Or maybe I am running a terrible risk and missing out on a carradice nirvana?
Anyone care to enlighten me?