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Saw one of these before I left on mine. a local shop wanted £44 for it though so could not afford.
Not as much space as two small panniers obviously. But enough space for a couch surf based trip (only needing spare shorts, socks, toothbrush, tools & cake), and for washing/drying cloths great as you just shove them in the fake little panniers and they can air dry.
Not maybe ideal as having weight up on high only isn't going to be great, but meh, still better than having it in a back pack.
Main lesson I learned from my little 4day tour (200mile, almost flat, maybe just 2,000ft of climbing in the whole thing) is just how much more I have to eat.
Day1 felt just about OK
day2 = zombie, I fell asleep in a sainsburies
day3 = struggled to keep my stomach from eating itself most of the day, at night made mistake of downing a 8.5% pint + chinese = instant sleep
day4 = mighty breakfast + mighty lunch + ate EVERYTHING left in my bag and half of my mates, and felt perfect. The last 10miles I did at race speed (liek a bosse trying to race to the train station), averaged about 19mph, which ain't bad considering it was around the back of houses, stupid tree root buggered cycle paths and trying to get past cycle path cyclists.
But then when I got home, forgot to eat properly, and its taken me about 3 more days to get back to normal.
Lesson 1 = eat liek a bosse. My normal intake is pretty low, maybe 2,200 a day, normal long day of riding i only take about 3,500, guess for touring I need more like 4,500+ ?????