Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - Brilliant Idea # 674

I want a new bag. Nothing wrong with the one I have now, but I’ve had it for over three years and I’m ready for a change. Normally, this isn’t a big deal. The money isn’t a huge issue and wife is extremely tolerant of my biking related needs and desires. However, wife is also eight months pregnant with our first child and the both of us are scrutinizing superfluous purchases a little closer than usual. Mind you, if I buy the bag, it won’t be catastrophic. But deep down in the recesses of whatever I have left of a conscience…I may feel a wee bit guilty. What this means, of course, is that I need a rock solid justification—a rationale if you will—for making the purchase. Here’s what I have come up with:

The Timbuk2 large messenger bag with extra waterproof liner I currently own would make the baddest, hippest diaper bag this side of anywhere. It has plenty of room, is indestructible, comfortable, and contains only small traces of blood, asphalt and beer. Nothing its first washing ever couldn’t take care of. Since we don’t yet have a diaper bag, or any other type of carry-all for baby Schiek, I think my sacrifice is noble and, to be frank, downright fatherly. It will be hard to give up, I will argue, but the Chrome Kremlin bag I’m eyeing as the replacement may someday fill the void. In the end, we may even be saving money.

So what are my chances?



On a related note, does anybody know why Sheldon doesn’t have a place to register for baby showers on his website? The kid will need some extra cogs and lockrings sooner or later…

Noble, indeed. She might even go for it if she likes the color scheme you had Timbuk2 do for you. Nice plan!

just get it and sleep on the couch. i like mine. it's nice. you can cuddle with the bag. you realize that until you do get it you will be tortured over not getting it.

Just don't ask about the stash pocket...

Hey Schiek
I can fit my 4 year old in my Kremlin, but after 5 they are pretty much beyond most bags.

Get the Chrome - I love mine. Dry, rugged, carries up to 30 beers (loose or packaged - but this info is of no use to you in the upcoming months/years), and can double as luggage when needed.

']Hey Schiek
I can fit my 4 year old in my Kremlin, but after 5 they are pretty much beyond most bags.

Get the Chrome - I love mine. Dry, rugged, carries up to 30 beers (loose or packaged - but this info is of no use to you in the upcoming months/years), and can double as luggage when needed.

no. he'll probably need plenty of beer in the coming years. just wait till the kid gets something unseen peirced.

I've got a hardly used (1 month) chrome kremlin in bright orange that i don't really use anymore i'd be willing to part with. I needed a bigger bag so i bought it and a few weeks later i got offered a good job so i quit messengering.

Yea, go Chrome.

Also: that was one of the best rationales for a purchase I have ever heard. Better than me, and I am a pro. Sure, blame it on the baby!

Good rational...... really it was. Problem is that you don't really want a diaper bag that's that big. Well, maybe with one kid it's ok, but you have to think about it here, you're not just carrying a diaper bag, you're carrying a kid too. I highly recommend a sling for the first 6 months or so, they rock. So now you've got a sling over one shoulder and a HUGE bag over the other. It just doens't work out so good. Just big enough to get the job done is key here. Next you move on to carrying on the hip or even better, a kiddie backpack (they rock) With the kid on one hip you've got less space than you think, you really need your diaper bag to ride on your other hip, like a purse (god forbid) even and messenger bags seem to ride poorly there, they tend to crawl into the small of your back, which is where one of your child's legs sits. With the backpack a small bag is even more important as the backpack takes up ALL of your backside, leaving only the briefiest parts of your side and your front to take luggage, not enough room for a big bag. I use a small Gregory messanger bag that's about 10x16. It sounds small but it's plenty big enough for one kid and I find it quite adequate for two. God help you if you even need to carry diapers for three.
The excuse is great, but having been there, and still currently being there, I'd be searching for a small/mid sized bag to get specifically as a diaper bag. It would give you some serious street cred walking around with your kid and you'd be buying the bag for the baby, not for you, and that's always a justifiable expense.
Find one of those places that does custom labels on them and put something like
"Juniors Crap" on the flap. Crap can be litteral, figurative or whatever, but you'll always have juniors crap in there.

Nah, just put the kid IN the bag. problem solved!

"The kid will need some extra cogs and lockrings sooner or later…"

awesome.

']Hey Schiek
I can fit my 4 year old in my Kremlin, but after 5 they are pretty much beyond most bags.


It's a girl...so maybe I'll be able to get a couple more years...



Good rational...... really it was. Problem is that you don't really want a diaper bag that's that big.

That's it. You're on the ignore list. [smiley thing]



just get it and sleep on the couch.

My boy, if this is where the bar was set for sleeping on the couch, we would have been separated years ago.

My boy, if this is where the bar was set for sleeping on the couch, we would have been separated years ago.

then just get the thing and don't suffer at all. what are you afraid of? just make sure you put at least $250 a month into her college fund.

just make sure you put at least $250 a month into her college fund.
by the time she is in school, All PurpaCheese will cost that much for one serving

I agree with familyman, you don't really need a huge bag for diapers and stuff. Over the years, my wife and I were looking for a nice bag for my sons' diapers and extra clothes and such but have yet to find one. We're just currently using a diaper bag that we got from Roots for my 2 year old and also the same bag we've used for 2 of my other sons. We've also got a sling bag that we also use and if we need something bigger, I've also got a MEC backpack. Besides, we usually just hang the bag from the handle of the jogging stroller we use. And those kid back packs do rock...when we were visiting friends on Boston and sightseeing, we used a stroller for the 2 older boys and the kid backpack for the youngest. Worked well on the train and for walking around town. I'd save the money for diapers and formula and diaper rash cream. I'll probably find a nice bag one my 2 yr. old's out of diapers!! My boys are 9, 7, 6 and 2 BTW. Here's a pic of my 6 year old after his requested haircut yesterday...

I agree with familyman, you don't really need a huge bag for diapers and stuff. Over the years, my wife and I were looking for a nice bag for my sons' diapers and extra clothes and such but have yet to find one. We're just currently using a diaper bag that we got from Roots for my 2 year old and also the same bag we've used for 2 of my other sons. We've also got a sling bag that we also use and if we need something bigger, I've also got a MEC backpack. Besides, we usually just hang the bag from the handle of the jogging stroller we use. And those kid back packs do rock...when we were visiting friends on Boston and sightseeing, we used a stroller for the 2 older boys and the kid backpack for the youngest. Worked well on the train and for walking around town. I'd save the money for diapers and formula and diaper rash cream. I'll probably find a nice bag one my 2 yr. old's out of diapers!! My boys are 9, 7, 6 and 2 BTW. Here's a pic of my 6 year old after his requested haircut yesterday...

he looks like a yu-gi-oh character. :)

he looks like a yu-gi-oh character. :)

He looks like the little loveable troublemaker that he is!!! We bought him a shirt over the weekend that reads in an old skool font "HERE COMES TROUBLE" :)

dank bags can fit anything

dank bags can fit anything

what is the average cost? i should have gotten a 4000ci backpack... oh well.