Tikit Tidying...

I've always previously advocated the traditional cycle-touring model when it comes to carrying stuff: "carry it on your bike, not on your body". I see a lot of commuters with a bag full of stuff on their back, and in a lot of cases I suspect that the thing stopping them putting a rack and bags on the bike is because then the bike won't look like Lance's.

The Detours bag that I have on the Tikit is pretty good: it's fairly quick to put on and off. However, I have to say that for a multi-modal commute, having a bag on your back works pretty well. The bag just stays on your back while you fold the bike and stow it, rather than being another thing that you are putting down and picking up.

Generally folding bikes seem to present some extra challenges for bags and I found it tidied the bike up to cut down on the under-seat spares requirement using these neat bar-ends from Tranz-x.



There's a different set of tools in each side.