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Old 06-09-10, 09:07 PM
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B. Carfree
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Originally Posted by LHT in Madison
A few decades ago, handlebar bags usually hung from a steel frame that was cantilevered over the handlebars. To keep that frame from bouncing when you hit a bump, they usually had bunge cord from the bottom of the bag down to little hooks on the bunge cord that clipped onto something such as bolts in the fender eyelets. If your bag starts to move around in headwinds, you may need to do something like that.



I wish they still made handlebar bags like that.
I still have my Eclipse bag, just as you described. I bought it in '87, seems like only a few years ago, I must be getting old.
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