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Also, I started using your saddle packs on my bikes (after finding the tools to fill them) and they are;

• Satisfying to use
  
• Commonsensical for luddites to work out
  
• Bloody well made
  

My Envelope fanny pack got 5 out 5 stars when I took it MTBing on the weekend

Looking forwards to testing mine out 'en gravé' in June

I'm looking forward to mine!

Your anti bike packing backpack?

No, this is for #Enduro obvs

Aaah of course, the thinking hipsters off road hashtag

Nice

so shiny

Yeah but what was the problem?

You see that’s quite alright as far as French go (the only comment I’d make is in this instance I wouldn’t use frotter in the reflective manner — or if you really wanted, to be correct you’d have to specify what it is that the metal is rubbing itself onto or into or possibly even with? But it would be as if the metal is consciously doing the rubbing, which I’m now realising is the effect you might well be going for. Talk about ruining a joke) but really if I were the mudguards I would go out of my way to be hard to fit par principe if someone was talking to me in such a way.

(It is a lovely bike and black or shiny silver guards will fit it equally fine)

(But personally I’d sooner have electric tape tacked around the fork’s leg than the wire spiralling its way along)

^ please feel free to read the above with a thick French accent for maximum immersion.

All this talk of frottage, rubbing and Maximum Immersion is getting me seriously chaud

@cgg wait wait I've got a good one now, and is also topical for the fucked mudguards!

L'histoire est un vieux chauchemar bariolé qui ne se doute pas que les milleures plaisanteries sont le plus courtes

The saddle bag @jaeyukdapbap did for Stayer looked great

But yeah cool work man, look forward to seeing what you creat

Has this mudguard situation been resolved yet?

Sort of. Slightly slimmer tyres went in this morning. Shiny mudguards may go back on... A not well made frame bag experiment happened somewhere in between.

I think I like the black though. First century ride tomorrow.

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Thank you dude! :)

What's not well made about it? Been meaning to do a frame bag for a while now, would be keen to avoid pitfalls.

I wanted to try padded walls which caused too much bunching up of fabric. And as a result saw me fighting a bloody battle with my machine and a resulting slightly off shape bag. Also first go at lace style strapping at the top (I'm practicing for Hulsroy's bag) and I think the loops need to be shorter and maybe one more on each side. It looks alright-ish on the outside... The inside binding is a hot mess...

Keep It Simple Stupid. Etc...

Looks nice Dan.
Rear cable looks a bit long no? Doesn't it make the brakes rub a bit?

Yes it’s long... I’m fixie skiddah what is back brake?

Ah that's good to know. I was thinking about pockets for HDPE sheet (or thin cutting mats) with foam glued to it, so I could slide them in after sewing. Messy binding is better than no binding? I still need to find the patience to start using it on inside seams.

Keep the black guards so we can be bike twins - I'm claiming part of your mood board inspiration.

Looks ace though. Have you been doing hills on it? Might be there this Tuesday - been meaning to come the last three weeks but some grim chest infection has kept me off the bike/in a foul mood.

The padding was mostly an exploration in trying to work out why the fuck you'd need a frame bag to have padded walls(!?) I really can't think of a good reason for it - if you're using a frame bag it's because you wanna bounce around on bumpy stuff at some point right? If you're bouncing around on bumpy stuff, why would you put something delicate loose in a bag so it bounces around with everything else in said bag?

I don't get it.

And I blame capitalism making dickheads with money think they need their frame bags padded because well, yours isn't...

Anyhow, won't be doing it again and have reinforced a strong opinion on the topic :)

Yes - it's hillz machine now. Please come out! Would be nice to see you!