Fifth Season Canvas Cache Sack (Burgundy)

Vermont made bikepacking roll top cargo fork bag.  Waxed canvas, Hemp, Aluminum, all tough and good things that age well.  The V3 Cache Sack has a revised pattern, a daisy chain added to ensure solid strapping, and a D ring so it's easy to either dangle a mug (does anyone still do that?) or hook the bags together so they're easier to shlep off the bike.  Often we find ourselves ditching a bike then walking up some steep scree covered slope to get to a camp spot.  In times like that, the D ring is a lovely and thoughtful addition.  

In Vermont, we have a fifth season, aka mud season. When the snow melts and the roads are covered in mud so thick that cars get stuck and pulled into the surface of the road like quick sand. The fifth season is the hardest season. The wet and the cold seep into your psyche. When we designed our new line of bags, the mud season was going to be our measuring stick. The bags had to hold up to terrible riding conditions. 

Good stuff sacks are oddly hard to come by. 99% are plastic of some sort. As if that wasn’t bad enough, they are usually way over or under built. Ultralight stuff sacks are sort of okay for jamming a bunch of clothes in, but they can’t take pokey bits, like bike tools, or Argus C3 cameras, or a rock collection. Further, no ultralight sack can be strapped on a bike fork and ridden through the woods. It’ll rip, snag, tear, and there will be much despair. Your 70 dollar high zoot 5 gram sack is in the trash, unless you repurpose it as a really sad sock puppet.

Heavy duty plasticy stuff sacks, naming no names, don’t age well.  Often the bottom literally falls out, as the 'welded' glue around the floor of the bag fails after a few years.  They’re hard to repair unless you use gorilla tape (works, looks terrible, eventually gets gummy, like the underside of a subway seat), and they look really horrible.  Like you’ve strapped a pool toy on your bike.

 Waxed cotton ages better than other bag materials. It’s durable. It’s rewaxable, so when it gets older than any plastic sack will ever get before it becomes landfill fodder, you can rewax it and make it weatherproof again.

These bags are not submersible, for long, but they’re good for really muddy wet roads, rainy days, etc. Here in VT where these bags are designed, we have as much rain as Seattle, but harder winters and more mud.

Designed to fit on a King Cage Manything cage, but you can use em in any similar giant cargo 3 bolt rack, or just use them as a normal stuff sack.Big enough to hold a down summer bag or a 1 person tent, or a down parka, some jazz pants and a pair of socks with a hole in the toe.

Metal quick release buckles.  Thick hemp webbing.  Roll top, roll it thricely for ultimate weatherproofish-ness. Sewn in Vermont in a one woman workshop by a gal who rides a Tanglefoot Hardtack and a Moonshiner.