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.

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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.

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I have finally put up a page for the nice Zwei bags from Germany.

We have had these bags for a while but every time I tried to conceive a page, or set of pages, that would convey their unique nature  I would study the Zwei site, get intimidated, and put it off until inspiration hit me. The hit never came but I needed to put these things in play so I put up a simple selling page with reference to the Zwei site.

The Zwei bags are not typical bike luggage. They have their own niche, I think. They are not primarily touring bags or grocery bags. They do serve very well as stylish, functional, everyday bags. The variety of sizes means there is a model for every purpose from handbag to laptop-toting briefcase. The clever strap system lets them serve as handbag, shoulder bag, and, with the integrated waist strap, a messenger-style bag. Looking good in every instance.

The Klickfix bike mount is practically invisible on the bag. It attaches to a bracket on the handlebars. All necessary hardware is included with the bags we have in stock. (Zwei makes the full line without the KlickFix hardware. If there is interest we will import these parallel models also.)

To get started with these bags we brought in the full range of sizes but only two colors of each size. We probably won’t make special orders for one bag but if you are interested in something besides what we have in stock let us know. Your feedback will be very helpful with future import plans.

We will be putting up a supplimetary picture page for this line of bags. If there is any view or detail that you are interested in, let us know with a comment on this post.

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Master bagmaker Watanabe Shoichi at his sewing machine.

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