Hulsroy's Hustle

Oh shit sorry. You wrote me a month ago. I totally missed that. I will respond immediately

My wife's bike got a new rack yesterday. The basket alone wasn't enough carrying capacity so the Surly rack was a good option to add some big panniers for groceries etc.

The plan is to get a bigger Manivelle basket as well, through @Tijmen and have him make a framebag and a basket bag for it.

I am going to make a rear rack for my cargo bike so I can use the panniers as well.

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Not that I want to sway you away from supporting French artisans but I have an unused WALD 1392 if that could work? Assuming the one on the pic is a 1372.

I already have walds of different variety. We are going to get a Witslingers bag for the manivelle as they have a collaboration I'd like to support. But thank you

This is interesting, I was looking at the Manivelle stuff for a 26" commuter bike I'm building up for my partner. Will pull trigger for the remaining parts in 2 weeks or so so I can have it built for when she starts working.

What is the timeline for the Manivelle x Wit Slingers collab?

I think it is already a thing.

@Tijmen am I wrong here? Don't you already have a bag design?

There are a couple of ideas, but I haven't had the time to come to decisions though. Basically there are three designs and I'm not sure what to go for. Let's pretend all of you are consumer research panel.

Option one is a very simple market tote, this first version was pretty good but I'll make it a bit taller and add a buckle for the option of pulling the top together / making a roll-top.

Option two is the basket tote I've been using for the last 2 years or so, it's very similar to the first one but it has a zippered top.

Option three is taking my messenger bag inspired tote and giving that basket proportions, it's a bit nicer with its lining and internal and external pockets, chest strap etc, but maybe overbuilt for a basket bag. Outer Shell has just released something similar, so maybe there's a market for it.

In all cases I don't believe in overly rack specific bags. Every version would come with a strap that lives on the rack permanently, which in my opinion is enough for keeping the bag in place and also comes in handy when transporting other things in the basket.

Goddam sexy all three bags imo ...

Also: look at me I eat so healthy! Wah wah where's the chocolate and crisps?

All very nice, but 1 with a roll top works best for me. I always over stuff shopping bags.

Yeah I feel like bag 2 sort of falls in between, and I will probably offer the simple one as a shopping tote and the last one as more of a commuting type bag. I'm just not sure what the basketpacking crowd is into.

I have the usual Wald on my T1000 commuter, but not ideal as the shift padles hit the top of the basket and the handlebar actually needs to go lower. I was thinking of cutting the top off so in an ideal scenario the bag attachments to the rack would need to be kind of adjustable? Does that make sense?

I just use on old rolltop backpack whith about the same dimensions of the Wald for it. It holds anything from lunch, snacks, coffee thermos and a 1l Nalgene to the previous combined with a full set of clothes, workshoes and a laptop. Keys, phone and lock go into a stem bag.

I have been wanting a "do-it-all" bag for a long time, but I just don't know if it's feasable, use cases are all over the place. A 3-way rolltop tote with diagonal messenger strap and a possibilty to use it as backpack straps sounds ideal for my use case. (Added bonus would be suitcase trolley loops for airline travel) So you would be looking at a hybrid of all 3 designs. So you would need an internal padded divider for laptop and accessible pockets inside and out.

My partner would just need to stack some A4 binders, office supplies, water bottle, keys, phone and some other things women tend to carry. So it would just be a large compartment, maybe a divider and an inside pocket. Which would bring you back to design 1 with pocket on the inside.

So I get that it would be hard comming up with something for everyone. But like you said, a more expanded version of design 1 and a rack dimesion version of design 3 (with customisation options) would hit most use cases I think.

edit: forgot to @Tijmen

Fair enough, and from what I have seen the Manivelle stuff is really nice.

Yep, bags look good but they all need a "ride dumb, eat crap, bonk whenever" patch

Just renewed my subscription to House of Dumbass Ideas.
Not sure what it is or if makes sense but I thought it might be fun. Not sure.

I've been inspired by @mankkis split bar stem for a while and this idea of an aero version has been rummaging in my empty head.

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Anyways that was a small distraction from actual work.
@JesperXT has been warning me about wearing my mask for.more than an hour at a time so I take breaks from filing and brazing. That's when stupid shit happens ^

Still got some hours on @Maj 's bike but it's getting there

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Ah man that seat cluster is thigh rubbingly good

Don't blame me for those bars!

The frame looks banging.

Thanks both. Very excited to get some emory cloth on it Monday and make it shine

Close to being done

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Excellent crack pipe

Thanks. The dropouts made it a bit difficult to do something else.
I like this new curved brace on the front boss and would love to try that with my Magic Bean UDH dropouts.

Woah, beautiful architecture. 203mm rotors on the back?!

Lovely simply lovely

Those are brake mounts are pure art

No no 160 on the back and 180 on the front.
The weird swapout dropouts make it all a bit funky