[quote=iwillbe]Barrel bags are just generally bouncy without an elastic cord around the stem / headtube and some kind of internal structure. Banjo Brothers made a decent one a few years ago with both those things.
Stiffeners help, I have a couple of super cheap bags into which I put trimmed plastic boards (sold on Amazon as semi-disposable kitchen cutting boards), it made them less liable to swing around.
For about five years, I’ve had a back-burner project of making a barrel bag that’s easy to access while riding. It’s still in initial notes: “velcro pull tab? infinite daisy chain? …magnets?”[/quote]
I have a prototype I’m building utilizing purse snap magnets and a big lid type thing.
If you can find an 11spd shifter/freehub, the XT8000 11-34 cassette is now available. I forgot where the discussion started.[/quote]
It is CS-HG800 that is 11-34 and fits the 10s freehubs. XT CS-M8000 (mtb ones are doing 11-40/42/46), but would require too much fuckery for most people wanting the 11s upgrade.
[quote=Shortpants][quote=iwillbe]Barrel bags are just generally bouncy without an elastic cord around the stem / headtube and some kind of internal structure. Banjo Brothers made a decent one a few years ago with both those things.
Stiffeners help, I have a couple of super cheap bags into which I put trimmed plastic boards (sold on Amazon as semi-disposable kitchen cutting boards), it made them less liable to swing around.
For about five years, I’ve had a back-burner project of making a barrel bag that’s easy to access while riding. It’s still in initial notes: “velcro pull tab? infinite daisy chain? …magnets?”[/quote]
I have a prototype I’m building utilizing purse snap magnets and a big lid type thing.[/quote]
That’ll do it. I almost definitely want to buy one of those from you.
There’s a 2% chance that some local RVA bagmaker (Chris someone, you probably know him from back when) is going to actually come through with the barbag he and I have been discussing for eight months, but short of that, yeah, I could use something a little nicer than a Bushwacker bag with part of a cutting board Gorilla taped inside it.
Magnetic buckles are great for kids helmets… They eliminate parental pinching, which you will know is a thing when it happens to you. My daughters both have nutcases with that feature.
