Nate's Boxdog Bikes Pelican

Portland to San Francisco

800 miles in 8 days, now back to sewing.

Trying not to freeze.

Big thanks to Chloe for being an awesome friend and riding partner. She didn't even hit me when I snored.
Portland to SF is done.

Black expandable panniers

Jan Heine, Compass Bicycles Handlebar bag sizing article

Jan just posted this article on choosing a handlebar bag size. It is very informative and describes common issues involving bag fitting. Compass Bicycles Blog.

Black set

Black brevet bag

Velcro straps

24oz #4 cotton duck with DWR treatment from Fairfield Textiles, reflective piping and front panel on flat front pocket

rackless, enough storage for a 200k or fast 300k.

map case and leather pull tab, velcro closure

Blue Waxed Cotton Duck Porteur Bag

with the stiffeners in, it retains its shape.

Emergency Flag Repair

My son asked me this morning to fix Christian Pacheco's flag, before school. Super rush job, as today is Friday and I wanted Christian to have it for the weekend.

The first part was to repair the broken staff, with super glue and two layers of electical tape, one horizontal and one vertical. My son made sure I got the sequence correct, before stitching it back into the flag body. the staff was broken at the bottom portion of the flag, so I shortened the broken section  by 1" in order to center the break into the body of  flag, providing more structural integrity to the unit.

The second part of the repair was restitching the broken threads.

I could not fit the tiny stitches under my industrial sewing machine, so rather than make the repair by hand, I cut a new 12oz vinyl section and stitched it over the existing white pole sleeve, using T-69 industrial thread.

Aligned and tacked up and ready to stitch.

all done, in time for school. I asked my son if he was the one who broke the flag, but he said no, Christian tried to make a catapult and broke it. My son just offered to help, because he knew we could, and that's the way it should be.