actually, fanny packs are starting to become hip again.
Jeff Piwonka
Austin, Texas, USA
> From: verktyg <verktyg@aol.com>
\r?\n> Subject: Re: [CR] What REAL bike messengers use and buy in San Francisco
\r?\n> To: "John Betmanis" <johnb@oxford.net>, Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org, verktyg@aol.com
\r?\n> Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 12:58 PM
\r?\n> All this talk about messenger bags
\r?\n> make me think of fixie faddists.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> No one has mentioned "fanny packs" from the 1970s. Remember
\r?\n> the bags that rode just above your hips in the rear and were
\r?\n> held on with a strap around your waist?
\r?\n>
\r?\n> They were great because unlike a backpack, they didn't trap
\r?\n> much body heat and perspiration.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Chas. Colerich retrogrouch
\r?\n> Oakland, CA USA
\r?\n>
\r?\n> John Betmanis wrote:
\r?\n>
\r?\n> > Well, to steer this thread back on topic and away from
\r?\n> bike messenger or Carnaby Street haute couture, the only
\r?\n> kind of bag a REAL CYCLIST would carry is a bonk bag.
\r?\n> >
\r?\n> > This one costs 1/10 of the one from Brooks. http://www.rapha.cc/
\r?\n> more examples.)
\r?\n> >
\r?\n> > "Back in the day" these were home made from striped
\r?\n> deck chair material, patterned after the throw-away musettes
\r?\n> handed out at feeding stations in road races.