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[LeetleGreyCells]

My saddle bag has broken

New one ordered

 

[Reynard]

My school 'colleagues' needed no encouragement or training whatsoever when it came to waving sharp and pointy things about and poking their associates with same.

Equally, it wasn't the stick so much as that nice heavy ball you get in hockey, which can do damage at a surprising range if used carefully.

A number of people certainly discovered it was not healthy to stand between me and the goal. The look of surprise alone was worth it...

I know all about hockey balls. And the damage they can do.

And I was more accurate with an epee than many people have a right to be. And given that the whole body is the target in epee, there are places where you really don't want to be sporting bruises...

 

[raleighnut]

We were never able to use such exciting things. I'm not sure if that was because my games teachers were so fixated on Football and Rugby that they didn't bother with anything else or if they were smart enough to know that in our school giving people a pointy stick and permission to throw it was really asking for trouble.

I suspect both.

View: https://youtu.be/_9nDHupVqVw


Luckily I was good at Rugger.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

My saddle bag has broken

New one ordered

I broke yet another saddle bag a month or so back, they really are short lived, I only seem to get a couple of years from one.

 

[Reynard]

I broke yet another saddle bag a month or so back, they really are short lived, I only seem to get a couple of years from one.

Saddle bags don't work very well on my teeny, tiny bicycles. Just not enough under saddle real estate.

Bar bag does the job nicely for my gubbins instead.

 

[roadrash]

Brothers sox and rusty both. decided today is a lazy day

 

[fossyant]

Just checked into a rather lovely boutique pub/hotel in Manchester's Northern Quarter, The Abel Heywood. Just £67 a night mid week. Wife not yet finished work so I'm having a cheeky beer.

 

[fossyant]

View attachment 469533 Brothers sox and rusty both. decided today is a lazy day

Rusty looks my Leo. Rattle snake tail by chance.

 

[roadrash]

yeah , rattlesnake tail , brothers with totally different personalities

 

[roadrash]

@fossyant im that used to saying sox and rusty , in the photo rusty on the left, sox on the right

 

[fossyant]

@fossyant im that used to saying sox and rusty , in the photo rusty on the left, sox on the right

Sox of course is the one with socks...

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Saddle bags don't work very well on my teeny, tiny bicycles. Just not enough under saddle real estate.

Bar bag does the job nicely for my gubbins instead.

I've used a bar bag before, it didn't fit very well on my drop handlebar bikes, eventually one of the straps broke and it went back and I got my money back. At one time I could buy a saddle bag and it would last for years but the modern ones don't seem to last.

 

[roadrash]

Sox of course is the one with socks...

yeah, my granddaughter named them and often tells me off if I write socks instead of sox.

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

I broke yet another saddle bag a month or so back, they really are short lived, I only seem to get a couple of years from one.

It was the strap which went over the top of the bag and through the saddle bars that lost its stitching and tore the top of the bag. I've ordered a Topeak one which attaches by a plastic bar tightened with a hex key so I don't have that issue again. We'll see how it does once it arrives. My original I only had about 18 months or so.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

It was the strap which went over the top of the bag and through the saddle bars that lost its stitching and tore the top of the bag. I've ordered a Topeak one which attaches by a plastic bar tightened with a hex key so I don't have that issue again. We'll see how it does once it arrives. My original I only had about 18 months or so.

Thats the same one I brought