Can someone please remind me which of those tiny little packaway rucksacks are any good?

Be nice to pop some squashable food in one of them on the occasional shop stop.

One of these Dave

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sea-Summit-Ultr ... B00B1941O0

Not the cheapest, so shop around or see what you can find in the pound shop

ah hah. Thanks chew

Sea to Summit has served me well over the last couple of years.

http://www.ultralightoutdoorgear.co.uk/ ... -pack-p338

They also do a slightly heavier dry-bag version.

The pound shop ones are actually alright. I've used one occasionally and neither it or I died.

Decathlon do a sea to summit version packs slightly bigger but costs around £3 iirc.

Another vote for the Decathalon £3 one.
Packs down to tiny. I carried 3 logs, jaffa cakes, small bottle of coke and a 2 liter blader full of water from the pub stop to the bothy on the Ford Fiests without any problems.

Karrimor one for a few quid works well. Bought from Sports Direct of course. Can cram a weeks worth of shirts, socks an undies in it!

XLite 20 packable

Sea summit ultrasil daypack here too. Took it on the FF but never needed it. Mainly there as back up to put any shop bought goodies and to take care of a big water stop before camp. Fits nicely in a bumbag, often taken for commuting too

I use a berghaus one on my motorbike (leave it under the pillion seat), packs bigger but has better straps, a pocket and feels more robust, looks a bit like this

https://www.safariquip.co.uk/images/srv ... BZ1-aa.jpg

Err. What bike benp1

RR8 Fireblade - Enough space for some tools, disc lock and the packable rucksack

Doesn't have a huge amount of under seat storage but surprisingly more than the Triumph Street Triple R I had before

When I say it packs bigger it's down to the slightly padded straps etc, the Sea to summit one is more of an emergency bag, the berghaus is more everyday usable (as a rucksack)

Nice. I had an rr5 for a while. I now have a 97 918 And love it the most.

They're cracking bikes - more power than you ever really need, but control to go with it

Far more capable than I am!

http://www.decathlon.co.uk/pocket-bag-f ... 05180.html

As Taylor says decathlon do these we have a few as we take them on our family bike trips great for picking up shopping etc

I used this Vango Pac 15 when riding through Spain last year. Used it as hand luggage on the flights, and every night to keep my valuables with me. It served me really well, and I use it (almost) daily now for the gym:

http://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/pac-15-p266 ... lsrc=aw.ds

£11.70

I've taken a spare airlok with a bit of strap. Packs small and potentially serves more than one purpose.

Anyone know of one of these with a sternum strap?

I want to be able to stick it on my front for emergency extra purchases when I've got a child seat on the back - can't wear a normal rucksack as it hits them in the face, the sternum strap stops it from falling off

I have plenty of packs with sternum straps, but not tiny packable ones, like pocket size

Couldn't you just sew one on Ben?

Umm, that would involve sewing skills!

I might bodge one with some cord though, Google isn't showing anything. Cord is cheaper, just slightly less pretty...

Cord it is then!

For the hard of googling,

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000G4YP2E/r ... KW0DKJAP7H

I have a 3 quid decathlon one. It has a sternum strap

Get the child to wear it?

Or go the whole hog and get a Ribz front pack

s8tannorm wrote:Or go the whole hog and get a Ribz front pack

Ribz is good.

Separate sternum strap is only 1 step better than cord. Built in one would be better? Plus the straps on the sil nylon pack are very slippery so don't know how well that would hold (found some tatanka ones in my searching)

Have you got a link to the decathlon one? The one I found didn't have a sternum strap - http://www.decathlon.co.uk/pocket-bag-f ... 05184.html

Child can't wear it as he/she is in a chair with a back. I've managed to bicycle up a pannier attachment for the back, but need a way of being able to carry more. The pannier I have is cheap and small

ribz is a bit hardcore for what I need...!

I've temporarily fixed it with some beautiful simplicity. Used a mini carabiner to clip the spare ends of each rucksack strap together, they have little loops so the carabiner works well. Not perfect but good enough for now, straps keep together enough across my back to stop it falling off my front when leaning forward, and it's free. I'll only be riding like that for 20 minutes at most.