Well I just ordered something I probably don’t need but…wow…I think I’m gonna love it anyway. Acorn Bags is a small company that makes reportedly excellent saddle and handlebar bags for cycling. I’ve wanted a saddlebag that is much smaller than my Sackville SaddleSack and much larger than the small toolkit bag I generally carry. You know, something I can stuff a jacket or a camera in and still have a little room for tools and such.
The Acorn Medium seems to fit the bill.
I’d thought about getting a bag for the front, perhaps their Boxy Rando Bag, but I’ve got a different sort of front bag coming and with my moustache bars I’m not sure what will fit correctly up there.
One of the interesting things about Acorn is their ordering method. They don’t take orders. Really. Instead their online store is restocked one a month on the first. If you can put something in your cart you can have it. But once an items is sold out, and things go fast, that’s it till the next month.
I’d forgotten about it this morning till a couple of hours after they’d “stocked” the store. Luckily the item I wanted was still available, but I’ll be that by the end of the day my Medium Bag will be gone.
Aloha!
Slower, cheaper, less useful…