So I just came back from a month long tour through France and Spain using, among other things, a Carradice Super C saddlebag. A 23L saddlebag.
During the tour I crashed on a tight corner and broke the wooden dowel that provides the internal stiffness and enables the bag to be mounted to your saddle.
This isn't the first time I broke one of these (always for good reasons) but I was wondering if people have replaced these with other materials?
The normal one uses a lightweight wood but I was thinking of replacing it with a titanium rod with rounded corners or to have something like a laminated wood dowel made by a specialist.
Thoughts?
by JaccoW
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I’ve got 20mm pvc conduit in one of my bags, it bends quite a bit before snapping. Also I have attached my quick release adapter to the bag using fairly skinny cable ties. I stacked it a few years ago and one of the cable ties snapped, but the bag incurred no damage.
I wonder if you’d just end up bending or breaking something more difficult to replace