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	<title>Comments on: Sackville Saddlesack Large Review</title>
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		<title>By: Brian Hefferan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Brian Hefferan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My large Saddlesack (serial #31, close to yours) sees hard &amp; heavy daily usage. I&#039;m amazed at how usable and versatile it is in daily commuting and shopping use. I leave the bag on the bike all the time even for century rides, where I&#039;ve hauled home vegetables, watermelons, homemade pies from roadside stands, and other goodies I wouldn&#039;t have considered with a lesser bag. I&#039;m totally happy with it. 

An idea for LC: Busted rivets can be replaced very cheaply and easily with copper rivets from a well-stocked hardware store. Just put a similar-sized rivet flange-side-out though the holes the old rivet used, put the rivet washer over the rivet shaft inside the bag, and firmly hit the shaft over the washer a few times with a hammer. I think the Saddlesacks come with hollow-shafted brass rivets, but the solid-shaft copper rivets sold at hardware store should be less likely to fatigue. I suppose it&#039;s better to have a rivet bust from too much stress than have the fabric tear around the rivet, though.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My large Saddlesack (serial #31, close to yours) sees hard &amp; heavy daily usage. I&#8217;m amazed at how usable and versatile it is in daily commuting and shopping use. I leave the bag on the bike all the time even for century rides, where I&#8217;ve hauled home vegetables, watermelons, homemade pies from roadside stands, and other goodies I wouldn&#8217;t have considered with a lesser bag. I&#8217;m totally happy with it. </p>
<p>An idea for LC: Busted rivets can be replaced very cheaply and easily with copper rivets from a well-stocked hardware store. Just put a similar-sized rivet flange-side-out though the holes the old rivet used, put the rivet washer over the rivet shaft inside the bag, and firmly hit the shaft over the washer a few times with a hammer. I think the Saddlesacks come with hollow-shafted brass rivets, but the solid-shaft copper rivets sold at hardware store should be less likely to fatigue. I suppose it&#8217;s better to have a rivet bust from too much stress than have the fabric tear around the rivet, though.</p>
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		<title>By: krujos</title>
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		<dc:creator>krujos</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m bummed to hear that another person is having problems. The large bag doesn&#039;t have rivets for attachments (I think because it has support from the bottom). The Ostrich Saddle bag that velo-orange sells is almost the same size (its not as deep). It is intended to be used with a bag support. Too bad about the saddle sack. I&#039;m sure Riv will do there best to make it right.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m bummed to hear that another person is having problems. The large bag doesn&#8217;t have rivets for attachments (I think because it has support from the bottom). The Ostrich Saddle bag that velo-orange sells is almost the same size (its not as deep). It is intended to be used with a bag support. Too bad about the saddle sack. I&#8217;m sure Riv will do there best to make it right.</p>
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		<title>By: LC</title>
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		<dc:creator>LC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 07:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m so sad about my experience with this bag! I have the Sackville size S and the metal rivets keep popping out of the canvas. The bag itself seems really high quality, but the attachments between the leather straps and the canvas are just really terrible, honestly. I&#039;m going to send mine back- but it&#039;s too bad! I haven&#039;t found another bag this functional. Ideas?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m so sad about my experience with this bag! I have the Sackville size S and the metal rivets keep popping out of the canvas. The bag itself seems really high quality, but the attachments between the leather straps and the canvas are just really terrible, honestly. I&#8217;m going to send mine back- but it&#8217;s too bad! I haven&#8217;t found another bag this functional. Ideas?</p>
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