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Bought the Planet X Podsacs Bar bag & harness, has two short straps to mount to handlebar, and another one that's meant to wrap around the headtube. Cables get in the way, so getting a secure fit around the headtube isn't working well.
I've once borrowed a Wildcat gear harness which had long straps which used a figure-of-8 arrangement to secure the harness to bar and fork crown. Has anyone lashed something similar together using webbing & buckles bought cheaply and easily on eBay?
Old inner tube sliced in half length ways makes 2 nice stretchy straps
That thought did cross my mind, and I may yet resort to that. But figured some straps/velcro/buckles would just be a few quid on eBay (not that I've managed to find anything suitable yet).
The other option might just be to buy the Alpkit Joey, which from the pictures has straps running down to the fork crowns ... any real world views on how good the Joey is?
Here you go, <--link.
The buckles are old QR camlock ones from extremtextile.de - here, salvaged from a previous project.
Ah ... Very useful. Will give the Alpkit velcro straps a go and ditch the Podsacs straps (as you say, next to useless!)
I don't think the velcro would hold the bag in place without the webbing straps, it just makes rigging the bag up easier, and keeps the harness in place when I undo the main straps pulling the bag up into the bars.
Think I follow ... 🤔
Alpkit Velcro to attach the harness to bar (and headtube if desired)
Longer webbing straps to go around the whole lot. I might have some somewhere with a different drybag, but if not, where do you get those from (your earlier link was just to the buckles)?
I bought the buckles a while back for something else, and had the webbing in the spares box. A local seamstress stitched the buckles into the straps for free (I found her via the sewing/knitting/crafts shop where I live). Handy people, seamstresses, good for adjusting kit or MYOG projects. You can get all that kind of stuff from extremtextil.de, pointnorth here in the UK, Needlesports.
But any longish QR straps would do, such as the ones that came with Alpkit Dual Airlok bag that preceded this Podsacs item.