So few of the bikes sold in Britain today come equipped as standard with basic features such as lights, mudguards and racks that it leaves many cyclists forced to buy these items as aftermarket accessories. For example, the top tube bag is the cycling equivalent of a car’s glove compartment – a space that’s perfect for storing odds and ends like your phone, a spare inner tube, small tools or a snack.
Easily held on to your frame by velcro tethers, the Birzman Packman is water repellent and abrasion resistant to ensure that your must-haves are kept safe and dry in all weathers.
The bag has 0.8 litres of storage with a further three external pockets suitable for a phone or wallet. The practicality of a top tube pack may give you a taste for adventure. Now reinvented as ‘bikepacking’ the business of setting off to ride and camp, taking with you only as much as you can carry, is as pure a cycling experience as you can have.
The excellent bikepacking.com describes ‘a synthesis of mountain biking and minimalist camping; it evokes the freedom of multi-day back-country hiking, with the range and thrill of riding a mountain bike. It’s about forging places less travelled, both near and afar, via single-track trails, gravel, and abandoned dirt roads, carrying only essential gear’.
Win a Birzman Packman Top Tube Pack
To be in with a chance of winning a Birzman Packman Top Tube Pack simply leave us a comment at the bottom of the page and we’ll pick a name next week. Names of previous winners are published in our weekly newsletter.
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Gillian
Useful for commuting and cycle touring!
Darren C
Very useful looking bag, would get much more use from me during commuting, ideal for a spare tube and my phone, etc.
Mark
It’s a shame that this type of bike bag is considered to be “uncool” in some circles, as I think it would be really useful!
Sam
More storage never hurts.
Les Gunbie
Yes please
Jim Woodlingfield
Definitely the biz!
Peter
Fabulous bit of kit, I’d love to win one and add it to my bike packing kit!
Donald Woodman
This looks really useful.
Richard
Can a beer and sandwiches? Yes please
Philip Woodford
Great looking back and would like great on the top tube of my new ebike 😂
Mark B
There’s room for a celebratory libation in there!
Fran
Love to win this ty
Jamie J
Top tubetastic…
Judith
Brilliant location and storage!
Doug M
Yes please. For commuting, it can taken of the tube and then carried on the Tube!
Moragh Buchan
This would be better for me than a handlebar bag.
james Turnbull
better than my jacket pockets
simon mcloughlin
Just about right to fit in small glass of vino, a selection of cheese and crackers.
I may be out cycling but I shall maintain those high standards.
Dave M
Save stuffing everything into my back pockets
Jane
As husband carries a lot of camera gear on his bike I end up carrying his other items!! So this would be great for him.
Peter Chisnall
Packing!
Clive Jones
Great for those times I pop to the shops for some milk and come out with an armful of stuff from the reduced shelf!
James
Looks a great addition to add useful storage for tool kit
Peter Clark
Yes please. Room for that on my hybrid
Steve
I’d like to bag one of these, please
Damian Connaughton
Would love one of these for touring!
Philip Gregg
I’d like to win a Birzman Packman Top Tube Pack. Thank you.
Clive Probert
Have got so many uses for that one
Colin
I’m your handy man 😉
Brian D
Just what I need.
Martin Baker
Yes please!
Helen
Soooooo useful.
Fergus D
Perfect for lots of things!
David Jolly
I love it, it looks ace!
Andy
Totally tubular man
Rachel Walls
This sounds perfect for me!
Alison
I love to go a cycling along the mountain track And as I go I love to take my handy top tube pack Valderi Valdera Valderi Valdera ha ha ha ha ha Valderi Valdera My handy top tube pack!
Nick Board
just the job.
Robert Lewis
Looks like a great alternative to a bar bag
Tim Earl
That would be very useful.
Sarah
A perfect place to keep my essentials
JOHN
like that it fits on top of the tube rather than beneath it so its easier to access
Sue
looks really useful – does it come in other colours ?
Dave
Lovely stuff
Huw
Would be a boon.
Anna Green
I was wishing that I had one of these, just yesterday! I have one that straps to the top tube but hangs below it, but on my current bike it is in the way of the water bottle.
Fiona Dowson
Excellent. YOu can never have too many accessories
Mike Croker
I’d like to bag this…please!
John
Very useful, would love to win one of these
Raf
Perfect for my other half’s trip round the Hebrides!
James H
Looks really useful
KathyC
Great compact cycling pack. Would save me having a larger panier bag
Stephen
A useful bag which fits unobtrusively in an unused space.
Craig
Someone is going to bag a lovely prize!
Steve
Having one of these would encourage me to use the bike more.
Craig
Someone is gonna bag a cracking prize!
Chris Bromwich
Looks super useful to have one of these to fit to the bike.
Andy Elliott
Count me in with a chance please!
Anthony Kay
Would be better than taking a pannier when I only need to take a small amount of stuff.
Steve
The Perfect Bag for me – perfect size, perfect fit and perfect position
Gillian
It would even match my bike! ❤️
Andy Brown
I’d be top of the world winning one of these
Pamela
Yes please. Would get ever so much use.
Jeannie
Really useful piece of kit. Would love to have one, please.
Iain Shanks
Perfect for my kids bike – I already have a similar one but it’s stuffed full
Ema A
Would be useful to store a few things
Jennie Parsons
Just the bag I have been looking for – ideal!