Anyone have the sewing skills to make up a very simple pannier?

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Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on September 28, 2010 at 4:54pm

This sounds like a "Craft Night" a-brewing.
I bought a sewing machine last winter but lost interest halfway through the setup process . . .

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Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on September 28, 2010 at 5:46pm

H3N3 said:

I think you're thinking of Todd Allen? The trailer with the hood over it?
Mine's a box with full-range drivers that light up at night and a downward-firing 15" sub.
It says 1997-2007 on it . . .
Anyways, Todd's got a little trick for hauling all that weight by himself . . .

I've seen both of those trailers at the mass I think -I'm fairly sure I've seen yours. Todd's trailer includes a DJ in back right? Then there is the guy I was behind a couple of months ago with the yellow trike with what looked like a couple of amps wired together and an mp3 player duct-taped to the handlebars. Good music too although the transitions between the tracks were a bit abrupt.

The biggest rig I've ever seen out there was that guy who was hauling the kayaks. They probably weren't that heavy but MAN was that a long bike trailer rig! Great thing to bring to the mass. I've only ever seen it there once (this July maybe?) It's a big ride so it's possible I just never saw it before (or after) that. That was cool, the thing was bigger (longer at least) than most cars.

You guys with the music are pretty cool. I'd like you to know that it's appreciated although I don't ride TOO close to the ones with the louder systems -my hearing is already fraked and it doesn't take much sound volume to bring pain to my ears and make my tinnitus worse for a few days. There's nothing like listening to an unresolved interval all night long.

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Permalink Reply by Kate Setzer Kamphausen on September 28, 2010 at 5:48pm

I do!

So - a flap that wraps over the handlebar and velcroes close, with a wee pouch in the front and a wee pouch behind (by your knees), yes? How big should the pouches be? i.e., what size batteries?

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Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on September 28, 2010 at 7:22pm

I scanned this last night but got distracted . . .

No handlebars, no knees . . . just hangs over a stubby front rack:

Kate Setzer Kamphausen said:

I do!
So - a flap that wraps over the handlebar and velcroes close, with a wee pouch in the front and a wee pouch behind (by your knees), yes? How big should the pouches be? i.e., what size batteries?

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Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on September 28, 2010 at 7:37pm

The yellow trike must have been Ken from Beverly.
http://www.thechainlink.org/photo/trike-2?context=user
The kayak's were Tim, founder of Uptown Bikes.
Todd is the one with the DJ in back-- spencer has been the DJ twice recently I think.
Spencer's had his own sound trailer on the mass maybe twice this year-- it's a couple of PAs on a BikeRev.com "kit" platform.

James Baum said:

H3N3 said:

I think you're thinking of Todd Allen? The trailer with the hood over it?
Mine's a box with full-range drivers that light up at night and a downward-firing 15" sub.
It says 1997-2007 on it . . . Anyways, Todd's got a little trick for hauling all that weight by himself . . .

I've seen both of those trailers at the mass I think -I'm fairly sure I've seen yours. Todd's trailer includes a DJ in back right? Then there is the guy I was behind a couple of months ago with the yellow trike with what looked like a couple of amps wired together and an mp3 player duct-taped to the handlebars. Good music too although the transitions between the tracks were a bit abrupt.

The biggest rig I've ever seen out there was that guy who was hauling the kayaks. They probably weren't that heavy but MAN was that a long bike trailer rig! Great thing to bring to the mass. I've only ever seen it there once (this July maybe?) It's a big ride so it's possible I just never saw it before (or after) that. That was cool, the thing was bigger (longer at least) than most cars.

You guys with the music are pretty cool. I'd like you to know that it's appreciated although I don't ride TOO close to the ones with the louder systems -my hearing is already fraked and it doesn't take much sound volume to bring pain to my ears and make my tinnitus worse for a few days. There's nothing like listening to an unresolved interval all night long.

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