I’ve had a few rides on my new rigid bike and I’ve decided I quite like it. I need a good place to store all the spares on long rides and was thinking a handlebar bag.
Sort your cables out, run them away from the steerer. If your bothered about the frame put tape on the area to protect it
On a long tour you really don’t want to be over stretched.
Also look at the thread on here about those bags. They didn’t come with great fixings and needed adapting. Px may have fixed this by now, or not.
If your steerer is long enough you can always run two stems, use the lower one as a dummy with a mini bar cut down to mount the bag on. It’s not pretty but it’s effective.
Our bar bags are Altura. Use a Klikfix like this, so protrude in front very securely. Much better than the on trend gravel bag I tried – which flopped around like a day old salmon and rubbed all the paint off anything within reach.
I keep spares and tools in a little deuter ‘energy’ bag like this:
You can cram quite a bit in them, often with extra space for snacks…
On the MTB and gravel bikes I just keep the (larger) emergency tube strapped to the frame in an out of the way spot like just under the seat/top tube junction, all my bikes have some sort of frame mounted pump (mostly mini pumps mounted adjacent to a bottle cage)…
How much/how bulky are the items you need to carry OP?
For me an bar mounted bag is more of an “expedition” type choice, I have gotten away with adding a dangly “stem cell” type bag if I need to take extra smaller items/food on a longer ride:
Again quick and easy to fit/remove and don’t require a change of stem…
I’d certainly not Change stem just to accommodate a bag…
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