Eurobike 2016: Douchebags

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by David Hayward September 2, 2016 2

Douchebags won one of the Eurobike Awards this week – n- no, it’s the name of their brand, we’re not slagging anyone off. It’s the name of the company: Douchebags! We just went to see them and they were very nice people. They’re from Norway and, following other luggage they’ve made for action sports equipment, are launching a foray into bike bags.

Working with people such as the Athertons and Team Sky, they’ve developed one for road bikes and one for mountain bikes. They’re full of neat features; here’s a walkthrough of the latter, The Trail:

Above: full.
Below: The same model of bag, collapsed for storage.

At the bottom right, you can see a big pad to protect your cranks and rear mech. There are plenty of other details worth zooming in on too.

Each side of the bag has a compartment for one of your wheels.

Behind the frame are individual pedal pockets (below) and a tool pocket.

Very neat frame protection and handlebar stowage.

Fork protection

When not in use, it unzips and packs all the way down to this!

The bag has a lot of nice details, like these zip pull covers secured by poppers.

Inline skate wheels mean you can easily source and replace wheels or bearings as they wear out. Proprietary wheels can be a real pain on cheaper luggage, but not so with this bag. Douchebags are considerate designers!

David Hayward

David started mountain biking in the 90’s, by which he means “Ineptly jumping a Saracen Kili Racer off anything available in a nearby industrial estate”. After growing up and living in some extremely flat places, David moved to Yorkshire specifically for the mountain biking. This felt like a horrible mistake at first, because the hills are so steep, but you get used to them pretty quickly. Previously, David trifled with road and BMX, but mountain bikes always won. He’s most at peace battering down a rough trail, quietly fixing everything that does to a bike, or trying to figure out if that one click of compression damping has made things marginally better or worse. The inept jumping continues to this day.