Mountain tandem - New DIY bags

[bakerjw]

Well, my wife and I have a custom Curtlo mountain tandem bike which has been named by my wife as "Lolly" which is short for Lollypop Blue.
I've made most of the bags on all of my other bikepacking bikes and this one is no different.
All of the latest loaded pics are here on our gallery.
http://www.bakerjw.org/PhotoGallery/index.php?/category/860

Last night was a shake down ride to see how it handled with a full load on it. The main triangle bag is quite loaded here and she looks pregnant.
But... That has been taken into account.


If you notice the horizontal line in this pic. There is an identical line on the other side. The fabric is looped inside and I have slits in it every 1".
This allows me to lace side to side wherever needed to reduce the amount of bulging.


The stoker roll bag. This holds the Eureka Midori 2 person ten and sleeping pad. It is made with Goretex that I got very cheap.






The front handlebar bag is not a roll bag but rather it opens to the front. It was an early iteration that I used on the Tour Divide in 2017.
With the Jones bar, it loops on the front and rear parts of the bar as shown here and is rock solid. It just isn't color coordinated.

[Adam Alphabet]

Super tidy setup! Bike looks ready for adventure. Nice work on the bags and a clever solution to the bulging. Do you trim the extra strap/velcro lengths or leave them longer for adjustability in case?
Great work, Enjoy your ride!

[bakerjw]

Thanks. These are not my first efforts.

The straps will get trimmed back.
One thing that I do in my bags is to glue a strip of vinyl (siding, soffit, etc...) to the inner surface of the bags and then use a fender washer and cap screw to affix them where the water bottle mounts are located. The bottoms are then rock solid.