Carradice Lowsaddle Long Flap Saddle Bag (Green with Honey Straps)

The original waxed canvas saddle bag.  The Carradice Lowsaddle Longflap is a traverse style saddle bag.  It goes across the saddle, unlike contemporary bike packing saddle bags.  The Lowsaddle is a middle sized bag with super useful side pockets.  Big enough for a thick pair of socks, or a coffee mug / alcohol stove and windscreen. 

The Lowsaddle  saddle bag can hold 15 liters of whatever.  Perfect for smaller frames and big camping loads.  The long flap feature is handy: you can unsnap the flap and extend it for bigger loads.  Have a compulsion to bring 4 cameras and 5 spare lenses like my buddy James Joiner?  This feature is key.  Put this bag on a frame 53cm or smaller, and use a Nitto R-10 rack to support it.    

Carradice has been making bags in England since 1932.  They're still made there, and most of the bags are signed by the person who sews them.  Carradice uses thick waxed canvas for the outer material, durable, highly water resistant, made for English weather.  The straps are leather and the hardware is metal.  These are top quality bags that are remarkably affordable.  Compare the cost of say, a Swift bag, which is 60 dollars more and made with much less expensive materials in a factory where works are paid a fraction of what the British workers make.  I've seen Carradice bags from the 70's that still function perfectly, faded but fine.  You can rewax them occasionally to reup the water proofery. 

 You need either saddle bag loops (Brooks saddles) or bolt on saddle bag loops, which we also sell to attach it to the saddle.  Install it with the buckle inside the bag, it will cinch closer to the saddle, and wobble less.  

 The rack in the pics is a Carradice bagman expedition but that's a big bike, and you wanna get the Carradice Camper Long Flap if you are using a bike that big.  Stick with the Nitto R-10 rack or the Simworks Burrito rack for best saddle bag support on smaller frames.