Ride Lugged

Here’s the beginning of our bag series (hopefully). No orders yet please. A few kinks need to be worked out. A few test rides to be had. I would also like to know if any fellow riders have suggestions or ideas about particular needs or features they’d like to see in future bike bags.
Facts about the bag:
Fabrics are as follows, waxed cotton(waxed in our oven, ED), waxed herringbone style wool suit from Goodwill.
Leather and buckles from some guy in Maine, tanned by the most expensive processes you can git. Swanky swank and looks chocolatey delicious. None of that cheap-ass Coach like leather.
Custom designed and hand sewn in Frederick, MD.

OK, so obviously Mel is stoked on this bag. I am too. My fingers are close to bleeding from all the handstitching. It fits gobs of stuff, in the photo it has a heavy sweater and two long scarves in it, so thats pretty big if you think about it. It has external tie down abilities, so you could even go with more stuff, say anouther jacket. Very practical, not nearly as heavy as one would assume, and its very water resistant. The wool is waxed to, for further water repellant actions. Anyway, we think its smarter than those dumb trunk bags which look like soft cheap lunchboxes, and they need racks too. So we figure this thing will go for maybe, i dunno, 140ish, and its handmade, and one of a kind, and lighter and not much more expensive, if you figure a blackburn rack is 45 bucks and its heavy, and ugly, and aluminum, and not handmade, and a trunk bag is a pain to get on and off and there’s velcro which wears out, and tears at your fingers (brass buckles feel great) and is made in china and is black and has zippers which jam, anyway, a topeak bag which is kinda middle of the line, as 60 bucks, so thats 105, not counting installation if you have yer rack installed +15 bucks, its heavier, uglier, not made to last ect ect.
-Mel and Johnson