I assume you mean internal stiffener on the outside? My ortlieb fork packs have a stiffener on the fork side so it sits flat. Not too floppy on the outside even unloaded, but no stiffener.
Ideally on the inside to keep the shape. I hate strapping bags to a rack and having them squish up in weird ways.
I’m strongly considering the Ortlieb fork packs though.
I haven’t seen many, but I use things like my Fozzils bowls to get my salsa fork bags to keep their shape when on the bike.
By that logic, could you take something like cheap flexible cutting boards and turn them into internal stiffeners? As a bonus, you’d get a cutting board or eating surface out of it at camp.
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Not a bad idea, I hadn’t though about just making my own stiffener
mcmaster has ldpe in different thicknesses and sizes
i like to make my own stiffener once a day, sometimes twice if i have time
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I do enjoy a good self stiffen
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I’ve often wondered about just using old 2 or 3 liter soda bottles as fork packs.
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man kids have it easy these days
https://www.rei.com/product/244886/big-agnes-blacktail-hotel-3-bikepack-tent
back in my day, my tent fell off my bike all the time and also I did not have a bike garage attached to my tent
“easily packs on your handlebars”
“Packed weight 8 pounds”
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Check out the 4 person version that weighs 20 lbs
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I guess this fits here: anyone make bike bags out of less-common camo? Multicam and Woodland are boring. I want like old Warsaw Pact or Swiss TAZ camo or something.
Not that I know of, but I wonder what some small-time custom maker would say if you offered to send them a roll of fabric.
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That’s a pretty good idea!
Bags by Bird offers a few options. Although I would avoid the first because it’s a very close derivative of Nazi SS camo for some fucking reason.
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I dig that M70 camo, definitely not the oakleaf camo
it’s a shame because many of the coolest patterns have problematic history, like flecktarn and Rhodesian brushstroke
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“Built light enough for the backcountry”
looking at their whole range, are they just trying to market anything as for bike packing?
this one is 12 lbs for a 2p tent!
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Yeah, that thing is dumb for back/bike packing. But I really want it for car camping. An enclosed space protected from rain but that isn’t inside the tent with the stuff you want to keep clean sounds awesome.
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Yeah that looks great for rainy camping trips.
i’ve done plenty of meal cooking in the vestibule when you need shelter and that would be great for that as well.
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