Anyone ride with a Musette?

Tom Nakashima said:

I've been riding with a canvas musette for the last few years.
I found it to be a convenient way to store extra clothes
when layering. When not in use, I fold it and carry it one of the
jersey pockets.

I often use a "musette" made by Chrome:

http://chromebags.com/products/bags/show/14/

It accomodates my 4XL Carhartt zipper hoodie-- I guess that would be a
"layer"-- with room to spare for a twelve-pack. When it's empty I
sometimes use the shoulder strap to bind it to the front of my BMX
bars.

Chalo

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Tom Nakashima said:

I've been riding with a canvas musette for the last few years.
I found it to be a convenient way to store extra clothes
when layering. When not in use, I fold it and carry it one of the
jersey pockets.

I often use a "musette" made by Chrome:

http://chromebags.com/products/bags/show/14/

It accomodates my 4XL Carhartt zipper hoodie-- I guess that would be a
"layer"-- with room to spare for a twelve-pack. When it's empty I
sometimes use the shoulder strap to bind it to the front of my BMX
bars.

Chalo

Mine are not as elaborate, actually they're freebees from Bike to
Work Days. I've been collecting them from years past and putting
them to use.
http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/57647866.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF1939847EC77F5F8D1CE761733265F557DCCA40A659CEC4C8CB6
-tom

Tom Nakashima said:

I've been riding with a canvas musette for the last few years.
I found it to be a convenient way to store extra clothes
when layering. When not in use, I fold it and carry it one of the
jersey pockets.
-tom

Um, isn't that what musettes were <i>invented</i> for? Me, I just
stuff the odd wind shell or tights or whatever directly into jersey
pockets

--max

the musette is a forerunner of the "messenger bag"?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/business/16bags.html

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the musette is a forerunner of the "messenger bag"?

shouldn't that be "forerider"?

Tom Nakashima said:

I've been riding with a canvas musette for the last few years.
I found it to be a convenient way to store extra clothes
when layering. When not in use, I fold it and carry it one of the
jersey pockets.
-tom

I like to stuff extra clothing into the front of my shorts, but I'm
insecure.

/s

Tom Nakashima said:

I've been riding with a canvas musette for the last few years.
I found it to be a convenient way to store extra clothes
when layering. When not in use, I fold it and carry it one of the
jersey pockets.
-tom

I greatly prefer to hang a bag from the bicycle, not from myself.

- Frank Krygowski

Tom Nakashima said:

I've been riding with a canvas musette for the last few years.
I found it to be a convenient way to store extra clothes
when layering. When not in use, I fold it and carry it one of the
jersey pockets.
-tom

I have a canvas shopping bag bungeed on the front of my city
bike,"just in case" when I don't have panniers on it. Fixed gear
luggage is one classic size huge Timbuk2 messenger bag. It holds more
than my panniers.

Quoted message said:

Tom Nakashima said:

I've been riding with a canvas musette for the last few years.
I found it to be a convenient way to store extra clothes
when layering. When not in use, I fold it and carry it one of the
jersey pockets.
-tom

Um, isn't that what musettes were <i>invented</i> for? Me, I just
stuff the odd wind shell or tights or whatever directly into jersey
pockets

They were food bags handed to riders in a feed zone. Used and
discarded. Simple little cotton bags and not the expensive ballistic
nylon messenger bags so popular with the fixie poseurs in PDX (no
offense to Chalo who undoubtedly likes his). -- Jay Beattie.

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:23:32 -0800, "Tom Nakashima"

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I've been riding with a canvas musette for the last few years.
I found it to be a convenient way to store extra clothes
when layering. When not in use, I fold it and carry it one of the
jersey pockets.

Must have an amazing zipper to be able to still hold air when playing.

Where do you put the drones and chanters when you stash stuff inside?

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Tom Nakashima said:

I've been riding with a canvas musette for the last few years.
I found it to be a convenient way to store extra clothes
when layering. When not in use, I fold it and carry it one of the
jersey pockets.
-tom

Um, isn't that what musettes were <i>invented</i> for? Me, I just
stuff the odd wind shell or tights or whatever directly into jersey
pockets

They were food bags handed to riders in a feed zone. Used and
discarded. Simple little cotton bags and not the expensive ballistic
nylon messenger bags so popular with the fixie poseurs in PDX (no
offense to Chalo who undoubtedly likes his). -- Jay Beattie.

Fakinger bags! ;-)

Chas.

Werehatrack said:

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:23:32 -0800, "Tom Nakashima"

may have said:

I've been riding with a canvas musette for the last few years.
I found it to be a convenient way to store extra clothes
when layering. When not in use, I fold it and carry it one of the
jersey pockets.

Must have an amazing zipper to be able to still hold air when playing.

Where do you put the drones and chanters when you stash stuff inside?

Dear Werehatrack,

Bah! French impostor!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Ch%C3%A9deville#Impersonation_of_Vivaldi

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

Jay Beattie said:

Simple little cotton bags and not the expensive ballistic
nylon messenger bags so popular with the fixie poseurs in PDX (no
offense to Chalo who undoubtedly likes his).

I was trying to make a little joke comparing my heavy, clunky bag
complete with seat belt buckle to an almost-disposable tote. It is
only a feed bag in the sense that a week's groceries are feed.

Chalo

Frank Krygowski said:

I greatly prefer to hang a bag from the bicycle, not from myself.

Me too, but not all my bikes are willing to get with the program.

Chalo

Werehatrack said:

Must have an amazing zipper to be able to still hold air when playing.
Where do you put the drones and chanters when you stash stuff inside?

Mr Werehatrack...are you making a reference to bagpipes? Fair stirs
the blood doesn't it, the thought of bicycles and bagpipes?
ABS (S for Stewart)

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:50:34 -0800 (PST), [email hidden]

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Werehatrack said:

Must have an amazing zipper to be able to still hold air when playing.
Where do you put the drones and chanters when you stash stuff inside?

Mr Werehatrack...are you making a reference to bagpipes? Fair stirs
the blood doesn't it, the thought of bicycles and bagpipes?
ABS (S for Stewart)

A musette is a musical instrument:

mu·sette (my›-zµt“) n. 1. Music. a. A small French bagpipe operated
with a bellows and having a soft sound. b. A soft pastoral air that
imitates bagpipe music. 2. A musette bag. [Middle English, from Old
French, diminutive of muse, from muser, to play the musette, muse. See
MUSE.]

I believe the OP was referring to definition 2, while the musical
reference is to definition 1. Also, please avoid confusing it with "A
Muzi", which is completely different than "a musette".

Tom Nakashima said:

I've been riding with a canvas musette for the last few years.
I found it to be a convenient way to store extra clothes
when layering. When not in use, I fold it and carry it one of the
jersey pockets.
-tom

I use a Deuter Speed lite 20
http://www.deuterusa.com/products/productDetail.php?packID=speedlite20&sub=alpine&tert=speed
for the same purpose. It is the most comfortable and useful pack I
have ever worn.

At this time of year, I wear a down vest as an insulating layer on my
pre-dawn ride. For the afternoon ride home, I usually pack the vest.

To my way of thinking, it makes more sense to carry the load equally
on both shoulders.

J.

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:50:34 -0800 (PST), [email hidden] may

have said:

Werehatrack said:

Must have an amazing zipper to be able to still hold air when playing.
Where do you put the drones and chanters when you stash stuff inside?

Mr Werehatrack...are you making a reference to bagpipes? Fair stirs
the blood doesn't it, the thought of bicycles and bagpipes?
ABS (S for Stewart)

The musette is a French variant, with the usual decadent inclusions of
pointless frippery that you would expect. Somehow, though, I don't
think that even they would try to use the bag's cavity for storage.

As for bagpipes and transportation, I will relate that I have employed
them to good effect in that area. In the late 1970s, I had an overly
powerful sound system in my vehicle (a car which gave the outward
appearance of a 1965 VW Beetle), and I used to keep a selection of
cassette tapes at hand for use in situations which demanded them. One
was a tape of the massed pipes and drums of the Jubilee, playing
Scotland the Brave. When a car would pull up next to me at an
intersection with the radio turned up to the point that the sound was
hopelessly distorted (as was almost always the case in that day when
someone tried to play a car radio at a high volume), I would simply
flip on the extra amplifiers, slot in the tape (already cued to the
correct position) and run the volume up to about three quarters.

The effect was generally quite satisfactory. The opening skirl of the
drums would have people diving for cover half a block away, and when
the pipes hit...one would have expected several regiments to be close
behind, from the sound of it.

I miss that car, and the sound system, and the tapes.

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Quoted message said:

Werehatrack said:

Must have an amazing zipper to be able to still hold air when playing.
Where do you put the drones and chanters when you stash stuff inside?

Mr Werehatrack...are you making a reference to bagpipes? Fair stirs
the blood doesn't it, the thought of bicycles and bagpipes?
ABS (S for Stewart)

Coincidentally, in a recent e-mail to my nephew about independent film
appreciation, I said:

"A _great_ film would be one featuring Nicole Kidman riding a bicycle
and playing bagpipes. But the really great films never make it to the
mass market."

(And this turn of the thread surprises me. I thought only I was weird
enough to know the real meaning of musette!)

- Frank Krygowski