honey Millbrook left, brown Glenbrook right

Brooks is offering a limited run of their popular Milbrook and Glenbrook saddlebgs in antique brown or honey leather. The leather versions will include a shoulder strap. MSRP is 300 for the leather Millbrook and 450 for the leather Glenbrook.

I am told that total production of these two bags is two-hundred pieces . We have our order placed and are hoping for delivery some time in April.

UPDATE 5/7/09: These bags are at the US distributor’s warehouse. We will probably have ours here in 1-2 weeks.

The latest on the long-out-of-stock Bagman racks that work so well with Carradice bags:
Quality control problems are still holding up production. There is some hope for new racks in April or May.

Tags: bagman

BagLoops 001

Originally uploaded by meauxtown

Flickr photostreamer Meauxtown* has a twist on saddlebag bagloop straps. I’m not sure how this applies to Carradice, what with the dowel under the holes and all, but maybe it will inspire someone who is more imaginative than me.

But the real reason I am blogging this is because Meauxtown is a major Jack Taylor bike collector. He shows us quite a variety of nice British iron along with the bag loop shots.

This blog will be the repository for any new Carradice Hacks that come along. We have a new shopping cart in the (slow) works and my plan is to use the shopping site for shopping and this blog/photostream all the extra content. WordPress and Flickr are such great tools for getting things done quickly.

You should be able to click on the Carradice Hacks category in the sidebar for future contributions.

*Louisianan for Motown

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Originally uploaded by guuwatanabe

GUU_Watanabe has posted a few pictures of this extravagent bike on their photostream.

The owner spent a long time collecting classic components. Once he had the parts he had Toei build a new frame to hang his stash on.

Also: Check out the bikes pictured on the Toei english-language web page. I have never seen a front light mount like the one on the 1961 Bluebird.

Adam Alpern is the man behind Zugster Bags. – “Bags for People Who Ride Bikes.”

A self-professed “sewing dork”, Adam has a line of intriguing messenger bags and he is in the process of developing a new handlebar bag with some interesting innovations.

There are more pictures of this bag, as well as Adam’s other creations on his website as well as in his Flickr photostream. If you like bags it’s worth a look.

Tags: bags, zugster

mfront8

Originally uploaded by guuwatanabe

Tokyo bagmaster GUU Watanabe has an interesting Flickr photostream. There are many pictures of beautiful bags. There are also many pictures from day-to-day urban Japanese life.

Tags: bags, GUU_Watanabe, tokyo