Messenger Bags

[beatlejuice]

Please cool dudes let me into your secret. How do you wear a messenger bag so that it stays on your back and doesn't slip round to your side? Is there something special about messenger bags that stops it moving or is there a special way of wearing the bag?

 

[beatlejuice]

I've watched the video http://vimeo.com/6109538 which tells all.

 

[fossyant]

You are obviously not at all cool.....

Just like me !

 

[Kookas]

When I used to wear one, I just kept the straps as short as possible. Still hated it, though, so I just wear a rucksack now,

 

[slowmotion]

It really helps if you first perfect the technique of riding your bike like a complete self-gratification artist...
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[Pat "5mph"]

Put it in your front basket

 

[Boris Bajic]

I wear one with gears and freewheel, but cannot wear one fixed, as it gradually wobbles round onto the crossbar on fast descents. This induces a strange sort of calm terror in my veins and renders me an accident in a holding pattern.

The trick (if there is one) is to wear the strap (very) short and make the shoulders into a special 'courier-bag-restraining' inverted elipsoidally colluded parabola. If you look carefully at your screen, I am making that shape with my spine as I type.

When I was a motorcycle courier (a fact I rarely mention) the coolest of the cool wore them short-strapped and back-to-front so that the company name was invisible. I will not mention which were the coolest machines as this is a cycling thread, but the V50 has to get a mention.

 

[beatlejuice]

@Shaun has just let us know that Proviz are give us a 20% discount and being a sucker for such things I thought I might get Mrs B to buy me of there bags http://www.proviz.co.uk/hi-visibili...oviz-nightrider-hi-visibility-messenger-bag-1 for my birthday.

 

[PedalCat]

Wearing a messenger bag marks you out as somebody who has the ability to identify a fashion and follow it, which by definition has to be uncool.
The challenge of wearing a bag while cycling was solved a long time ago. Rucksack.

 

[Fnaar]

Velcro

 

[jarlrmai]

Why are they called messenger bags?
Because they are used by messengers
Why are they used by messengers?
Because its easy to get things out of them and into them, which is handy for messengers, for commuters not so much
get a rucksack.

 

[jarlrmai]

but... STRAVA

 

[theclaud]

The challenge of wearing a bag while cycling was solved a long time ago. Rucksack.

get a rucksack.

Pah! Inverted snobbery. Messenger bags are better in every way, especially if you ride with drop handlebars.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Pah! Inverted snobbery. Messenger bags are better in every way, especially if you ride with drop handlebars.

Gotta agree, I wore a rucksack tonight to go and hunt for chips. Have to say that volcanically hot chips in a rucksack aren't the most comfortable way of getting around, even with coolarama drop handlebars to compensate.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

It really helps if you first perfect the technique of riding your bike like a complete w*****...
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]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLzGj10fg2g[/media]

Complete and utter peanuts, eventually they will all be scraped off the ground with a spoon and sent back home to mummy in jars.