I made a framebag out of this material a few weeks ago and gave it a bit of a test on a local ride the other day, it seemed to perform as designed and I came home very pleased with it.
Anyway, once I'd removed the mud I found that after only 22 miles I'd worn two small holes in the fabric. One where it touched the bottle cage and one where it touched a bottle cage bolt on the seat tube.
I've patched them using some shoe goo glue and a couple of bits of innertube, but I thought if anyone has made anything similar for the WRT or another big ride but hasn't yet tested it they might want to do so before they find themselves with stuff falling out of holes!
Thanks for the heads-up!
Aha! Thats why most manufacturers use a Cordura type material for the parts of the bag that touch the frame.
I had wondered, and when I recently made my own with Vx21 i used some Cordura in those places.
I'm sure that the innertube repairs will be solid, as the rubber should be a bit more abrasion resistant than the VX21.
I imagine that there will be quite a lot of MYOG frame bags at this years WRT!
flatfishy wrote:Had removed my bottle cage bolts from day one and still fine here.
This is good practice, but yours has ballistic nylon around the spine of the bag so will be less prone to wear.
VX21/42 is inherently abrasion resistant, especially when compared with "standard" cordura, but exposure to rubbing at corners, points or a sharp radius will usually lead to premature wear.
I'm just making a framebag for my steel frame and didn't want to remove the bolts in case the frame filled with water, I thought about replacing the standard bolts with button head bolts? Not sure if it would make any difference..
Joe
