Silly Old Twit

    Don’t buy a Mezzo Bike Bag. If you do you’ll lose it and it’s contents in no time. I bought one 2 days ago and when I arrived home today from a 30 minute cycle found it had fallen off my bike  , where I don’t know but in the bag were my mobile phone , glasses , 4 day old Krypton ULock  which cost 90 E. , sweater  and a set of allen keys. I had planned to take some photos today but left my camera behind at the last minute. All in all I suppose I’m 250 E. out of pocket.

   The bag has a plastic type bottom with ribs which slot into the carrier. There is also a lycra strip which normally would go around the saddle post but on the Mezzo fits at the front of the carrier. The problem is that the Mezzo has no suspension and 16 inch wheels so there is a certain amount of vibration even on good roads . The bag rattles on the back of the bike no matter how tightly you try to fit it and as a result it inevitable works itself loose and falls off. There is in fact nothing holding the bag on the bike…so you WILL loose it (and of course all your valuables).

    There is no click or catch when you slip the bag in place on the carrier so it doesn’t actually lock. The vibration  is quite loud and you can hear the bag rattle as you cycle along but you (like me ) might feel it’s alright as the lycra strap will catch the bag if it falls off however if you don’t hear the bag fall/jump off the carrier it will bang along behind you untill it does fall off.  As I said , I might have had my camera with me today in which case I would be appx 500 E. out of pocket. If I were a woman I might have popped my purse in the bag for ’safe keeping’.

                    Don’t buy the bag. ……and if you already have one don’t , don’t put anything of value in it.  PS . I forgot to mention when I first posted this that in the two days I had this bag it fell off my bike 3 times. The first time I felt a bump against the back wheel and the second time I was on a quite side road cycle track and so heard it fall off  but this last time I didn’t hear / feel anything so it wasn’t just a bit of bad luck on my part.  The bag is a big NO NO.

  Mezzo D 10 bike review ; click this link.