This thread
https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=80698.0, and particularly the photos of Phil W's Bridge Street bags reminded me of a project which I had delayed until the availability of a "roundtuit".
For reasons which are not relevant here my store of "bits" contained a number of these:
which are designed to attach a basket to one of these rather excellent quick release handlebar bar bag mounts from Rixen & Kaul.
Rixen & Kaul also make the same style of mounting to fit on a seat post.
If you have a redundant handlebar bag mount you can use one of these
but I found a complete one at Amazon:
Other ingredients:
In this case a rather tatty old Nelson
And now - the "bodge" component, which IMHO entitles inclusion in this board.
You are looking for a piece of plastic with a right angle in it, and as close to the internal width of the bag as you can get.
Something like a broken tupperware container, a plastic biscuit box, - the one I used on my Barley is from a
For the Nelson I used a piece cut out from two sides of knackered old swing-bin which is a pretty heavy duty and quite possibly overkill.
Here it is, cut to size and drilled using the backplate of the KlickFix adapter as a template.
Now remove the dowel from the bag, and drill holese in the bag too.
Although the bolts supplied with the adapter plate are M5, I'd suggest drilling 8mm hole - much easier to get everything lined up that way.
and finally re-assemble with your plastic re-inforcement between dowel & bag. It may be necessary to drill some pilot holes in the re-inforcement to take the dowel screws.
As I showed on another thread, with a well-packed bag there is absolutely no "sag" at all:
although, as you can see, it does require more than a couple of inches of seatpost out against which to cantilever the bracket, which although unobtrusive when a bag is in place is fugli with no bag.
I've now tested the Barley version on a 300km - and can report nothing untoward, apart from the mysterious loss of dowel screw with doesn't matter hugely.
Executive Summary:Carradice quick on / quick off, no fiddly straps, no ugly struts, and just a little lighter than a Bagman.
