Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Town bicycling

In The Towns, I need a shoulder bag for assorted work-related doo-dads. But when bicycling this slips down and invariably slaps into my knee on every rotation of crank.

The solution turned out to be pretty easy. Looking around at relevant bicycle porn and instructables.com I saw many "messenger bags" come with two straps, one goes around the shoulder and the other one around the waist.

My bag already had some wee leather straplets riveted to the sides, waiting to make good use of themselves. So it was just a matter of finding an adjustable strap with snaps in both ends. Not ever throwing anything away pays off once more. Note strap around waist below.

4 comments:

Steven Cain said...

Dashing!

Your coat rocks!

Gwen Buchanan said...

Perfect solution..

coastkid said...

a good fix!...

Northmark said...

Thanks! Boy, stuff like this makes me so proud.

And yeah, I feel pretty cool in that jacket.