Want to carry my clothes for me all day, plus my laptop, 4 or 5 textbooks, shoes....?

It's funny. Chrome makes all this messenger-specific stuff, and it's all really expensive. Do messengers make a whole lot more money than I had always assumed, or is their real market cube-monkeys who want to LOOK like messengers?

lotsa cube monkeys sporting messenger bags up here in Seattle, Michael...

Can't ALL these people be delivering timers cross town.

However, I don't think the standard messenger bag is first choice for delivery around here anyway.

I concur. They are not expensive, and most surplus stores have used ones, as well. Those cycling-specific "shants" are ridiculously expensive, and I think seely specified that money was an object. The poly/cotton blend ones dry pretty quickly.

My legs are WAY hairier and cut than that. Plus, I always wear black socks.

I see lots of couriers wearing shants/manpris/croppers/shrousers/floods, but they are more of the "I got my pantleg caught in my chain, so I burned off the bottom of the right leg with my trusty Bic lighter, then did the left leg to match" variety.

Most of the couriers I see downtown look like hobos on wheels. Some of them look pro, with good bikes and un-thrashed attire, but many of them appear to be homeless. I must admit, I have been given the once-over by the security in my building a few times. Then they notice that I have a helmet and don't reek of cigarette smoke, so I pass on unhindered.

Not sure about this as it is pretty "tighty." https://www.underarmour.com/ProductDe...a_ae=c&ua_ac=1

Maybe wear it under just a normal pair of track pants?

This is what I'm looking at, but I've never actually seen them in stores.

When you make 20 grand a year and all you have is a bike, you can afford $150 for a bag.
When you make 80 grand a year and all you have is a mortgage on a 400k apartment, 50k sports car, insurance, enough 400 thread count cotton shirts to buy a colnago with, you might not want to pay $150 for a shoulder bag.

Appear?

Trustafarians and young indentured professionals have got to schlepp their crap across town too, mike. Chrome uses those seatbelt buckles to give the appearance of vehicularity to urban riders more inclined to dodge the reds

Sigh. I love you guys...

Yeah, I try not to look/ride like a messenger. People aim for couriers out here. Case in point, a buddy was jaywalking (jayjogging?) across on one way street. He was looking the way traffic would be coming and therefore didn't see the courier coming the wrong way down the one-way. Apparently, his lead arm clotheslined the mess. and knocked him down pretty hard. My buddy tried to help him up but the guy pushed him away, swore and kept going. When he got to the other side of the road. People were high fiving him for a "clean take-out of a courier".

That's not cigarette smoke...

Q. What did the courier say when he stopped smoking pot?
A. This job sucks!

I have a Chrome Metropolis, but nobody is going to mistake this old fat guy for a messenger in a thousand years.

I had so much stuff in it yesterday (grocery shopping) that I could hardly lift it, but that stupid seatbelt buckle made it real easy to drop the load in the kitchen when I got home. I like it!

... and that's when Michael realized the fallacy of packing the eggs and jars of mayo at the bottom of the bag...

Heh... not my first time using a messenger bag for grocery shopping, void. What I do is back up to the counter, put the bag on the counter and take it off.

With my Timbuk2 bags that always involved an awkward procedure of lifting the strap over my head.

With the Chrome, it just involves pooshing buddon.

Actually on the timbuk2's, if you took the strap out of the buckle and just ran it through the cam, you can pretty much do the same thing. Just lift the cam, the strap slides out, and the bag drops. Except it might drop out when you're riding.