Jon Spangler wrote:
> REAL bike messengers across the bay in San Francisco spend $80 - $200
> on CHROME, Timbuk2, and similar bomb-proof bags, and in daily hard use
> wear them out relatively quickly (2-5 years) despite their being built
> like tanks out of Cordura and Ballistics cloth, among other materials.
> That is probably
> 2-3 days' worth of gross pay (for very hard work) for an average bike
> messenger.
Well, to steer this thread back on topic and away from bike messenger or
Carnaby Street haute couture, the only kind of bag a REAL CYCLIST would
carry is a bonk bag.
This one costs 1/10 of the one from Brooks.
http://www.rapha.cc/
"Back in the day" these were home made from striped deck chair material, patterned after the throw-away musettes handed out at feeding stations in road races.
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John Betmanis Woodstock, Ontario Canada