The Best Bike Bag Ever

Friday, 15 March 2013

We're heading to Our Nation's Capital today (in fact I'm writing from above Bass Strait) for the Capital Punishment mtb bike race. I'm doing the more cruisy 50k version and Jon is doing the full 100k version.  

After a short but busy week at work it was a bit of a scramble to get everything packed in time for our 6.35am flight (aargh!) but the newest addition to our family (bought sometime during the blurry transition between Frugal February, and Miserly March) is the best thing since sliced bread.  Take a look..  

I haven't had to use bubble wrap, cut up swimming noodles, sticky tape, cardboard or anything - the bike has it's own little fork pouch,, a rear cushion block thing  to sit the back part of the frame on so the deralier can stay attached, built in wheel pockets,  and other zipped sections for for pedals and bits and pieces. It also has velcro straps for securing everything in  place. It is so cool.  

Not only that but it also has wheels which work - I can wheel this one handed through the airport. 

And look, it's  red..

Of course the obvious problem is that  our family now has one good bike bag and one not-so-good bike bag (see below). The not-so-good-bike bag also has wheels but they are so narrow it's actually impossible to wheel it as it sags and tips into your hips. I remember struggling from Paul's Port Melbourne  house, to a tram, to another tram, then to the airport bus last year with that bag and I recon it took a week to recover from the ordeal (mentally and physically) - not helped by the fact that JetStar hit me with an extra baggage fee for my carry-on luggage when I finally stumbled into the departure lounge - including charging me for my un-drunk bottle of diet coke. Bast#*ds.

Anyway - Jon is the best husband ever as he packed his bike into the dud bag and let me pack mine into the good bag - and if we hadn't already ordered another good bag on-line (um.. during Mid-March-Miser-Meltdown) I would have ordered one immediately after using it last night.