Hi All,

I wanted to show off my remake of the Arkel bar bag hanger. I always thought that my Arkel bag mounted too high & too far from the handlebar, but nothing to worry about. I decided that I wanted to try aero bars this year, or as another member called them "prairie bars", but I didn't want to give up my handlebar bag. So I chopped & spliced the original hanger. I hope that you can make it out from the pictures. I also threw in a picture of my bike at the end so you can see my new red powder coat job.


The original hanger.


The altered hanger.




The bag now hangs just below the handlebar.


My new red powdercoat finish.

Thanks for looking,
Tom

Very interesting - An alternative to the second stem!

Thanks for sharing!

I have been looking for something like this for ages to mount a bag with my aerobars. Anyone know of any "off the shelf" solutions?

Great work. Love the bike.

Dave.

thats a great idea tom. i have the arkel small bar bag as well, and have considered getting aerobars with a second stem, but your modification seems like a better alternative. you should tell arkel about it.

Yeah, that`s nice. I`m not familiar with Arkel enough to know how they normally mount, but it looks great where it ended up. I can imagine that 5" or so higher would have been kind of silly even without prairie rests. My old lunchbox (C-dale bar bag) sits up high like that and I never could understand why- at least it doesn`t get in my way.