therustyprincess
New Member
I would like to purchase a carradice saddle bag. I generally potter about on a pashley princess, for which I will not apologise, and though I have a pair of cheap panniers they're not waterproof...not at all, and are also an awkward width.
I am weighing up the barley, lowflap and the nelson.
I commute to work (only about 2 miles each way) 2 or 3 times a week, and on weekends ride to the park or what have you with my son, and have to carry the usual paraphernalia including an extra jumper etc. And a flask of hot chocolate or I get rinsed at the park cafe. I would like to go a bit further with him this summer as he is now seven and quite competent.
I don't always have to take my laptop to and from work, it's not very big, think maybe 13 inches, but it doesn't fit in my panniers in its case and, the riding position being so upright, a backpack is weirdly painful.
I do have a basket but it bumps about annoyingly despite the bracket, I don't like carrying weight up front and again, obviously, not waterproof.
I like the proportions of the barley, though it doesn't solve the laptop problem. Obviously I have read all the measurements but the extendability part of the nelson and the lowflap confuse me.
Obviously if I could go into store somewhere and buy one that would be ideal but the nearest stockist is a touch too far.
I wish carradice would place them all side by side in a photo to illustrate the difference, maybe pack them with standards objects so you could see what each could hold e.g. a paperback, an apple, a phone...it would be so helpful when distance buying.
I realise this post is long, likely illustrative of my inner saddle bag indecision monologue.
I am weighing up the barley, lowflap and the nelson.
I commute to work (only about 2 miles each way) 2 or 3 times a week, and on weekends ride to the park or what have you with my son, and have to carry the usual paraphernalia including an extra jumper etc. And a flask of hot chocolate or I get rinsed at the park cafe. I would like to go a bit further with him this summer as he is now seven and quite competent.
I don't always have to take my laptop to and from work, it's not very big, think maybe 13 inches, but it doesn't fit in my panniers in its case and, the riding position being so upright, a backpack is weirdly painful.
I do have a basket but it bumps about annoyingly despite the bracket, I don't like carrying weight up front and again, obviously, not waterproof.
I like the proportions of the barley, though it doesn't solve the laptop problem. Obviously I have read all the measurements but the extendability part of the nelson and the lowflap confuse me.
Obviously if I could go into store somewhere and buy one that would be ideal but the nearest stockist is a touch too far.
I wish carradice would place them all side by side in a photo to illustrate the difference, maybe pack them with standards objects so you could see what each could hold e.g. a paperback, an apple, a phone...it would be so helpful when distance buying.
I realise this post is long, likely illustrative of my inner saddle bag indecision monologue.
