Bikepacking - a viable alternative to racks & panniers

Paneer?

I thought that was a middle eastern/central Asian cheese?

South asian

ACTUALLY

People should go with whatever makes them happy. Bit puzzled by the silence since my response though as when I spoke to Nathan he wasn't aware of being un-keen or reluctant to do full frame bags.

Maybe because it doesn't mention it on website? Or didn't last time I looked.

Ether way, happy with mine. Served me good for TCR and still serving me now no issue.

That sounds like an amazing trek. How long you looking to be on the road for approximately?

@TM - sorry for not replying earlier, but I wasn't meaning to misinform anyone. I emailed them and they said no - their message was as follows:

Andy

Thanks for the enquiry but we don't have the facility to do custom bags at the present time unless its a collaboration with a frame manufacturer.

thanks for your enquiry and we are always looking at bringing out new products if there is a market demand so if you send us some accurate designs we might consider it at a later date .

Thanks again

Restrap

Maybe it was something I said - I did enquire about what partitions a custom frame bag could have, but the message back seemed like a pretty clear no... If you've since persuaded them to do them, that would be great as I still need a bag.

What do you want a dry bag for?

Is this a trick question?

When I spoke to Nathan (owner/founder) he had no knowledge of the exchange and couldn't find it in the email history when he checked (most likely deleted not suggesting you didn't email) I've flagged in that the responses and information people get via various channels of contact need to be consistent with what Restrap can do. With the recent growth the business has experienced I think it can be difficult to ensure everyone is singing from the same hymn sheet and they're working on that. I've forwarded a screengrab of your post on and I'll report back with his response.

https://www.mackworkshop.com/ will deffo do custom bags and at a really good price.

no. different dry bags for different needs/uses.

To go in a restrap rear saddle bag. Dunno what more info to provide. Assumed all dry bags were created equal.

Not really, can get super light one, compression ones, thick durable ones.

I'd probably get a sea to summit ultra-sil one.

Need to buy some dry bags, one for the backpack before winter hits. Cheapest square/backpack shaped? Sportsdirect?

I've got a few of the alpkit dry bags and they're pretty decent. Probably better than the sports direct for not much more money.

eBay: Karrimor ones, used

Got some sea to summit ones for sleeping bag and down jacket but I would say a more heavy duty one better for saddle harness - the ortlieb ones are good.

Thanks @TM - appreciate it. Am keen to speak to them as all recommendations from here for restrap were good. I do wonder in hindsight if there is some miscommunication, I had asked a few questions about what they could do - might send them another email and ask again, if they've said otherwise they'd be willing to do them. If you wouldn't mind, I might mention this conversation - will report back if I have more news.

Thanks @iPete - will check them out too.

I spoke to Nathan and he said it can only be down to a miscommunication, so please do email again and feel free to mention you've discussed with Tom on LFGSS. May I ask, was the communication recent?

Cheers @TM, that's good to hear. Yeah it was recent - my post saying they wouldn't do it (about a week ago) was immediately after I got the email back from them

Sportsdirect have the karrimor ones, but i've split one from over stuffing before. The ortleibs are very hard wearing.

Thanks. Chancing it til the UK monsoon season, must buy something asap

Are drybags basically plastic bags?

Yea but they don't leave the name of the supermarket pressed on your work clothes and stop you smelling like bin liners