Keeping up with the Geonzes

[redrhodie]

Sounds like a dangerous place to work!

[Geonz]

THe lower you keep the weight, the easier it is to get the load up hills. Looks great!!

[divingbiker]

THe lower you keep the weight, the easier it is to get the load up hills. Looks great!!

Keep the suggestions coming, I'm learning from all of them. I was fairly bottom-heavy, I think...the gallon of chili and my loaded pannier were in one side bag, and the crockpot was in the other side bag. The baked stuff was up top.

I was running late or I probably would have spent more time getting the load balanced just right. And I need a better system for strapping the milk crate on top. Any ideas? Bungees don't seem to work very well--too stretchy.

[7rider]

I have some heavy thick black bungies - flat, not rounded like "braided" bungies. They are not as stretchy as regular ones. Next time I see you, I can show you...perhaps they might work better? Or, a strap with a ratchet to bring in the slack.

[Geonz]

I'd strap the crate on at its bottom, not top. Maybe do something creative with hooking on both sides of hte snap deck going "through" the crate at the bottom of it. Or, just use the straps of the bags to go through it from either side - they are deisgned to snap to each other as well as to the sides of the saddlebags.