I've just bought a nice Topeak Tourguide bar bag for my road bike (dropped bars).
It has a neat little section of plastic bar for mounting a computer, above the main bracket.
There's nowhere now for my normal Cateye battery light, or the two 10/15W spotlights I've just bought. Ideas?
I see that Minoura have a new "Swing Grip which is a spacegrip with a hinge in the middle. Hmmm... would end up with lights quite high up. Maybe this would work upside-down, ie slung below the bag?
ps saw this on the Topeak site. Not that I ever go camping - but it looks an interesting concept. Anyone ever used one? http://www.topeak.com/bikampernews.php
John Hearns <[email hidden]> wrote in news:pan.2005.03.29.11.39.23.64115 @nospam.com:
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ps saw this on the Topeak site. Not that I ever go camping - but it looks an interesting concept. Anyone ever used one? http://www.topeak.com/bikampernews.php
Another iteration of an old idea, used to something along the same line called Biketent, and that wasn't the first.
If you really need to keep the weight down to minimum it has some merit (though then IO'd also be looking at ulralight tent and bivis, but for general bike camping the disadvantages of using the bike for support, and the limitations on the tent design out weigh them for me. -- Chris French, Leeds
ps saw this on the Topeak site. Not that I ever go camping - but it looks an interesting concept. Anyone ever used one? http://www.topeak.com/bikampernews.php
No, but I /do/ remember seeing an almost identical item fifteen years ago...
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I've just bought a nice Topeak Tourguide bar bag for my road bike (dropped bars).
The Carradice Super C bar bag has a lighting bar that clips onto the bottom of the bag (at least, mine does; someone else has posted that his doesn't, so it may be optional). This has a number of advantages: the lights are shielded from your eyes so don't hurt your night sight, they're nearer the road so they illuminate it better, and when you unclip the bag from the bike you automatically take the lights with you.
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ps saw this on the Topeak site. Not that I ever go camping - but it looks an interesting concept. Anyone ever used one? http://www.topeak.com/bikampernews.php
How do you get to the pub, bakery, supermarket after you've put your tent up?
ps saw this on the Topeak site. Not that I ever go camping - but it looks an interesting concept. Anyone ever used one? http://www.topeak.com/bikampernews.php
How do you get to the pub, bakery, supermarket after you've put your tent up?
Perhaps you do the same as those camper vans you see and tow a small Brompton behind to use when you get there.
On 29/3/05 9:50 pm, in article [email hidden], "Simon Brooke"
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The Carradice Super C bar bag has a lighting bar that clips onto the bottom of the bag (at least, mine does; someone else has posted that his doesn't, so it may be optional). This has a number of advantages: the lights are shielded from your eyes so don't hurt your night sight, they're nearer the road so they illuminate it better, and when you unclip the bag from the bike you automatically take the lights with you.
That gives me a cunning idea.. A handlebar extension that clips on to the Klick-Fix mounts.. Time to get some 8mm rod and the brazing kit out.
That gives me a cunning idea.. A handlebar extension that clips on to the Klick-Fix mounts.. Time to get some 8mm rod and the brazing kit out.
Great idea. But as you are using 8mm rod, please put the mounting bracket facing downwards.
Me, I went down to the bin store and found a discarded clothes rail. Lots of shiny tubes, which lo and behold fit into the tube on top of the bracket on the handlebars. Plus two plastic right-angle couplings. I reckon a quick session with the hacksaw should see me a light bracket.
I've just bought a nice Topeak Tourguide bar bag for my road bike (dropped bars).
It has a neat little section of plastic bar for mounting a computer, above the main bracket.
There's nowhere now for my normal Cateye battery light, or the two 10/15W spotlights I've just bought. Ideas?
Francis Thurmer showed me an arrangement he uses with a length of PVC plumbing pipe. This is attached to the drops so that it runs in front of the head tube, and is held on with 2 re-useable cable ties. This allows it to be quickly moved from bike to bike.
On 30/3/05 1:11 pm, in article [email hidden], "dkahn400"
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John Hearns said:
I've just bought a nice Topeak Tourguide bar bag for my road bike (dropped bars).
It has a neat little section of plastic bar for mounting a computer, above the main bracket.
There's nowhere now for my normal Cateye battery light, or the two 10/15W spotlights I've just bought. Ideas?
Francis Thurmer showed me an arrangement he uses with a length of PVC plumbing pipe. This is attached to the drops so that it runs in front of the head tube, and is held on with 2 re-useable cable ties. This allows it to be quickly moved from bike to bike.
How does he cope with rotation of the bar? Does he have holes drilled through the pipe?
Me, I went down to the bin store and found a discarded clothes rail. Lots of shiny tubes, which lo and behold fit into the tube on top of the bracket on the handlebars. Plus two plastic right-angle couplings. I reckon a quick session with the hacksaw should see me a light bracket.
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On 30/3/05 1:11 pm, in article [email hidden], "dkahn400" <[email hidden]> wrote:
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Francis Thurmer showed me an arrangement he uses with a length of PVC plumbing pipe. This is attached to the drops so that it runs in front of the head tube, and is held on with 2 re-useable cable ties. This allows it to be quickly moved from bike to bike.
How does he cope with rotation of the bar? Does he have holes drilled through the pipe?
Unfortunately I can't remember the exact detail, but I think the ends of the pipe were cut and shaped so they fitted snugly to the handlebar. This would prevent both rotation and sliding. AFAIR the cable ties were not run through holes drilled in the pipe.
