That's kind of my plan. I really like the look of the handlebar bag, but I need to be able to remove it from the bike and use it like a camera bag. I talked with Emily at Dill Pickle Gear and she thought it would work especially if the cords used to hold the bike to the hoods were incorporated into the strap connection. Seems she is pretty open to modifications so I'll probably let her get through the Christmas rush to work on this. I won't need it until spring anyhow.

The other idea that looks like it will work well is to take the Hubba Hubba Hiney bag from Think Tank photo and have a daisy chain sewn along the top of the back edge at a luggage repair place. Then I can attach that to the handlebars with velcro strips that allow it to hang from the handlebar. Adding a d-ring either on the side or the bottom (or both) would allow the bag to be secured to the head tube or to the fork crown. That would come off easily and be great to carry. It also has an included seam sealed rain cover to protect against rain. This would work well for a camera and very little else (which is fine) so I may do that anyhow. I use TTP's stuff in most of my other photography work and just took it through a fairly rigorous effort in Iceland this summer. I've also used it for my alpine ski racing photography and it really took a lot of abuse.

Anyhow, using a mirrorless system (i'm into micro 4/3rds now) is a lot easier than with the DSLR stuff I used before. All the lenses are much smaller and the photo quality is great. My camera and lenses are weather sealed and that has proved to be pretty robust too.

So, getting there....

J.