bags

[david1701]

how do you ride with a messenger type bag without it falling down to the side and being in the way, everytime I've tried with a camera bag its just sat over my right knee being moved when I peddle and its a pita.

 

[Randochap]

None way that I know. The "best" messenger bags have a stabilizing strap, but still you're riding with a bag on yer back ... which is just a none starter for me. I prefer to carry baggage on the bike.

 

[John the Monkey]

As randochap says, a stabiliser strap will help. Personally, I found that on my road bikes, I could never get a messenger bag to stay put (Timbuk2 medium messenger). I have more luck with that bag on my Brompton (because of its more upright riding position, I think).

Like randochap, I much prefer to carry the weight on my bike if it's practical - on my roadbikes, that's done with a Carradice Lowsaddle longflap saddlebag, and on the Brompton, with a "C" type bag.

 

[asterix]

..and you can get quick release bag attachments from Carradice so no fiddling with straps.

 

[colinr]

My messenger bag is always trying to escape. You have to have it really tight but it still likes to sneak off centre quite a bit.

 

[carlgorse]

you could always get another strap to fit your bag and fit it around your waist to the other strap to stop it from falling to your knee .

Experiment is the way forward in this , but im sure there is bags out there .

I know one of my Lowepro Toploader bags came with extra straps to stop that from doing the same thing

Carl

 

[mark barker]

I've got an old animal messenger bag and I sewed on some of the nonslip matting that you can get for using in cars etc. poundshop version of this stuff

It worked pretty well, although panniers work much better!

 

[Rob3rt]

If you invest in a high quality messenger bag that was actually intended to be used by messengers and not by hipsets for the looks, then it wont slide about as much. But the stabilising strap is 1st port of call to stop it sliding.


Or you could look at a nice rolltop backpack. Like a normal backpack but expands to suit your load.

 

[david1701]

no worries, I was looking for a quick fix when I ride the rackless bike, will just make sure I take the yellow one when I have my camera and strap my domke to the top of the rack

atm I'm riding with a backpack and its naaasty

 

[david1701]

generic laptop back atm, my bike has panniers and all is shiny but its layed up while I wait for a tool to come in the post, and my sisters bike has no rack

its the sweaty back that gets to me, got to work today (after getting my crap dropped off on a prev trip) and I had a lovely dry back, usually it takes about 10 minutes to be dry enough to get dressed again

 

[mickle]

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4 mobile phones with 2 chargers each (don't ask) .... another two phones
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Don't ask?

Six mobile phones and four chargers?

 

[Rob3rt]

generic laptop back atm, my bike has panniers and all is shiny but its layed up while I wait for a tool to come in the post, and my sisters bike has no rack

its the sweaty back that gets to me, got to work today (after getting my crap dropped off on a prev trip) and I had a lovely dry back, usually it takes about 10 minutes to be dry enough to get dressed again

Walking backpacks that hold the bag off your back about half an inch with a small frame thing can help with the sweaty back. Only ever used a cheap one, worked a bit, not great though. Maybe the more up market ones do better.