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One of my other concerns seeing the mag version was if walking in public, that "unwanted fingers" could open it if it got behind your back or at your side in a crowd, ...
My handlebar bag uses zippers, which I really don't like very much. But you just convinced me that it is a great system. Thanks.
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RE the theft thing, I've traveled on my own a lot and in other countries, and like fiets can attest, stuff does happen. Heck, even a few summers ago I was in France with my oldest friend doing a trip we'd always said we would do (no biking) and he wasnt careful enough with his travel pouch and lost his money, wallet, passport, the works, to a pickpocket--the day before we were to come back to Canada. Made for a very busy last 24 hours and a lot of translating and cajoling from yours truly to allow him onto the plane without a passport.
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My travel clothes that I do not wear on the bike, the shirts have zippered passport size pockets. Such shirts used to be more common, you don't see them as often for sale anymore. And I have some older Ex Officio brand pants that have a zippered passport sized pocket at ankle height, I do not think they make them that way anymore.