berlinonaut
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A little bit of digging about the bag brought interesting results. The bag @Joffey bought via the ebay-link @Kell found looks like it's made from plastic / foil:
but another one shows the plastic more clearly:
However: What's interesting is, that it is made by a company called "Rhinowalk" (or at least labeled).
The companies hompage is https://rhinowalk-brand.com/ and their marketing claim is "more cheaper". They do have a list of all their bags on their homepage, but not the one in question.
They do however have another domain where they advertise and sell the bag for 35$ https://rhinowalk.com/en-de/products/brompton-handlebar-bag-with-adapter
This second domain is also linked in a youtube video about the bag (where it again does not look like plastic at all):
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndFvHKHVC0A
The model of the bag is "Rhinowalk RK9107" and if google for that name you'll find a number of shops selling it (as cheap as 17€: https://www.sunsky-online.com/p/TBD...l-Bicycle-Bag-with-Rain-Cover-Matt-Green-.htm). Personally I think this is to cheap for the work and materials involved, let alone the development and design of the bag - but Rhinowalk comes from China.
The first one of the Rhinowalk domains has in their imprint:
Company Name: Hangzhou Frozen Pear Technology Co., Ltd.
Company Address: Room 201, North Building, 11 Building, Hangzhou Xintiandi Business Center, Xiacheng District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province
Company email: jeff.world1988@gmail.com
whereas the second one has:
Company: Hangzhou Xibu Technology Co., Ltd.
Add : NO.1779 XIANGBIN ROAD, WENYAN STREET, XIAO SHAN DISTRICT,HANGZHOU CITY, ZHEJIANG PROVINCE
B2B International business: sales@rhinowalk.com
Retail order issue: shop@rhinowalk.com
So two Rhinowalks, both in the same city, same brand owned by two different companies, one of which seems just to have one single room along with a gmail-address. Welcome to China.
What I really find interesting is the pretty clever and complex design of the bag with the possibility of size adjustment. This picture comes from the ebay auction (and does again not look like plastic ;-)):
Now have a look at the bikegang shop and a bag they sell from a brand called Niyol for GBP47:
https://bikegang.ecwid.com/Brompton...erial-MiniO-Mini-O-bag-Alternative-p539885622
According to them it comes from Korea:
Brand: Niyol
Country/Region of Manufacture: South Korea
Origin: South Korea
Item location: Taiwan
Status: In stock
Payment: Paypal, Credit cards
Ship to:: World wide
Weight: 700 g
Looks once more as if in China shameless cloning has happend by stealing other people's designs, manufactoring it cheaply and flooding the market with a cheap price... Or the other way round. I heavily doubt that these two have been independently developed.
The first picture in the auction https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175496123985 looks a little bit more friendly regarding the materials:
but another one shows the plastic more clearly:
However: What's interesting is, that it is made by a company called "Rhinowalk" (or at least labeled).
The companies hompage is https://rhinowalk-brand.com/ and their marketing claim is "more cheaper". They do have a list of all their bags on their homepage, but not the one in question.
They do however have another domain where they advertise and sell the bag for 35$ https://rhinowalk.com/en-de/products/brompton-handlebar-bag-with-adapter
This second domain is also linked in a youtube video about the bag (where it again does not look like plastic at all):
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndFvHKHVC0A
The model of the bag is "Rhinowalk RK9107" and if google for that name you'll find a number of shops selling it (as cheap as 17€: https://www.sunsky-online.com/p/TBD...l-Bicycle-Bag-with-Rain-Cover-Matt-Green-.htm). Personally I think this is to cheap for the work and materials involved, let alone the development and design of the bag - but Rhinowalk comes from China.
The first one of the Rhinowalk domains has in their imprint:
Company Name: Hangzhou Frozen Pear Technology Co., Ltd.
Company Address: Room 201, North Building, 11 Building, Hangzhou Xintiandi Business Center, Xiacheng District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province
Company email: jeff.world1988@gmail.com
whereas the second one has:
Company: Hangzhou Xibu Technology Co., Ltd.
Add : NO.1779 XIANGBIN ROAD, WENYAN STREET, XIAO SHAN DISTRICT,HANGZHOU CITY, ZHEJIANG PROVINCE
B2B International business: sales@rhinowalk.com
Retail order issue: shop@rhinowalk.com
So two Rhinowalks, both in the same city, same brand owned by two different companies, one of which seems just to have one single room along with a gmail-address. Welcome to China.
What I really find interesting is the pretty clever and complex design of the bag with the possibility of size adjustment. This picture comes from the ebay auction (and does again not look like plastic ;-)):
Now have a look at the bikegang shop and a bag they sell from a brand called Niyol for GBP47:
https://bikegang.ecwid.com/Brompton...erial-MiniO-Mini-O-bag-Alternative-p539885622
According to them it comes from Korea:
Brand: Niyol
Country/Region of Manufacture: South Korea
Origin: South Korea
Item location: Taiwan
Status: In stock
Payment: Paypal, Credit cards
Ship to:: World wide
Weight: 700 g
Looks once more as if in China shameless cloning has happend by stealing other people's designs, manufactoring it cheaply and flooding the market with a cheap price... Or the other way round. I heavily doubt that these two have been independently developed.