to sew = to make thousands of holes , then to make the bag shower resistant again, you sell a rain cover.

toured with a 4 bag sewn set and made raincovers for them, on tour thePITA of the set-up was a security measure .

I parked that bike at tour's end, the Ortliebs are my Shopping Bags, now , as mentioned above wash if something spills .

pop them off and the checker outs the food in them.

they are dry inside when I put them, empty, on the checker's belt.


But there are China Made welded seam bags out too if cash strapped ..

MEC has a line Too ..