Winshell jacket storage on ride?

[Miranda]

Where do you store your windshell jacket while on a ride if you only have wedge saddle bag that is already filled with necessities? This is on a traditional road bike.

My necessities I keep in the saddle bag are this: supplies to change a flat, cell phone, house key, asthma inhailer. The bag is full then.

I don't like a lot of stuff in my jersey pockets. Food supplies usually go in there. Stuffed too full, and the feel/weight just annoys me. I worry about losing the inhailer or phone out of the pockets, that's why I zip them in the saddle bag securely.

I really wanted the Gore Xeon jacket that's featured here on TE to work for me, because is comes with a zip baggie the jacket fits nicely in, but two size tries, it's just not working. My hope was to stuff the jacket bag in between the bike seat/saddle bag for storage.

I don't own another wind jacket. The more multipurpose rain jacket I have now is bulkier, and just trying to stuff it under the seat didn't work so well. Thus shopping for new.

Any thoughts appreciated. Thx!

[alpinerabbit]

For me the jersey pocket is the ticket, sorry. Actually, full pockets keep the jersey from riding up on me, which annoys me to no end. A zipped pocket is another thing that makes a jersey "good" in my eye - to keep valuables.

You could get a storage bin for one of your bottle racks and stuff it in there. Or a frame bag.

In a pinch I'll stuff it under the jersey.

[7rider]

Where do you store your windshell jacket while on a ride if you only have wedge saddle bag that is already filled with necessities?

If I opt to take my light weight windshell off and have nowhere to store it, sometimes I'll hold the sleeves out at a distance from each other and spin the body of the jacket around on itself. Then, I tie the jacket around my waist with the sleeves. Not pretty, but effective. And twisting it up like that keeps it from flopping around too much.

[KathiCville]

Hi Miranda.....Like 7rider, I often zip up my windbreaker (a screaming yellow Brooks Nightlife jacket) and tie it around my waist. I figure it adds a bit of visibility, along with being out of the way...........BUT I also have a great, very lightweight bag that I got during a Terry sale last fall that clips comfortably around my waist. Basically a fanny pack. The few times I've used it, I haven't noticed it at all because the only thing I've tucked into it are extra gloves and a lightweight vest. I couldn't find a link to something similar on the Terry or TE websites, but if you search around under the term "fanny pack" on sites like REI and other outdoor places, you'll probably come up with a few possibilities. I love mine---in part because I only paid $10 for a great bag that was originally $40, LOL!

[Starfish]

Hi Miranda,

Sometimes if I need a little extra smidge of storage space, I will use the very tiniest of little underseat bags. Except, I attach it right in front of my head tube.

The velcro strap that would normally go around the seat tube...I put around the head tube instead. And, to give a little support from the top, I use one of those tiny, tiny little bungee cords (about 3" long and very skinny) up to the stem.

I will stuff into this little bag the stuff I hope I won't need (a couple first aid swabs, a packet of ibuprofen, a tube and cartridge). Doing that frees up just enough space in the "real" underseat bag to give me room for something else.

If I am going out for an absolutely all day, solo, unsupported ride, I will add to that a little Bento Box for the top tube. I will stash a few gels or bars in there...also creating just that smidge more room in the underseat bag.

I also hate having my pockets jammed full.

[Miranda]

This thread of mine is old, but today I rode with my resolve to the question...

Delta cargo net...

http://www.rei.com/product/698481

My jacket was a clearance model w/o the drawstring... great self storing pocket... fits even toe covers etc., besides jacket, read: containment of lil bits.

http://www.rei.com/product/721286

Secure, very lil weight added, low wind drag behind saddle...


Top view, did not interfere with pedal down stroke to bump hamstrings, nice...


Think it worked out pretty well.

[AnnieBikes]

I love that idea. I was wondering what I might use on Bike Virginia as my new Felt FW3 has no eyelets to put a rack on and I like to carry rain gear etc in a rack bag. I have been looking for a solution since you cannot put a seat post rack on a carbon seat post. This looks like a very good solution for the things that would "bulk up" my jersey pockets too much. Great suggestion...perfect solution. Thanks so much.

[Pedal Wench]

I just rode a very wet Tour De Cure today. My jacket has a stuffsack pocket, so I rolled it up into that, then took a really thick velcro strap. I looped it under my seat rails and around the jacket. It stayed just over the end of my saddle bag - out of the way so i could get into the bag, and never in danger of falling or shifting.

[Miranda]

I love that idea. I was wondering what I might use on Bike Virginia as my new Felt FW3 has no eyelets to put a rack on and I like to carry rain gear etc in a rack bag. I have been looking for a solution since you cannot put a seat post rack on a carbon seat post. This looks like a very good solution for the things that would "bulk up" my jersey pockets too much. Great suggestion...perfect solution. Thanks so much.

That's part of how I came to this resolve as well. At first I had purchased one of Delta's slim seat post racks w/detachable bag. Very nice set up for just an extra gear umph when you want it. Thank goodness I read my TE bike resource on the carbon first... cuz I didn't know any better. The rack was a return. But later, when shopping post (still got a carbon, btw atm), some peeps here w/carbon rides use an alum post for this very reason (or switch it out as a back-up alternative). Thomson makes a great post. The Elite version is pretty light for what it is. FWIW. Btw, hope your ride goes great!

[Miranda]

I just rode a very wet Tour De Cure today. My jacket has a stuffsack pocket, so I rolled it up into that, then took a really thick velcro strap. I looped it under my seat rails and around the jacket. It stayed just over the end of my saddle bag - out of the way so i could get into the bag, and never in danger of falling or shifting.

Great tip. That was gonna be my next step. I can sew a lil. I was checking out some inexpensive elastic and velcro from the fabric department to make a set up. Paid a bit more and let Delta rig it up for me (slacking lol).

[Pedal Wench]

Great tip. That was gonna be my next step. I can sew a lil. I was checking out some inexpensive elastic and velcro from the fabric department to make a set up. Paid a bit more and let Delta rig it up for me (slacking lol).

I used the velcro strap that holds my Dinotte batteries - velcro with a plastic loop. It was perfect. So perfect, in fact, that I didn't want to undo it to put on said jacket.