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DIY Plastic Bag Bag

Hacks | Turning plastic bags into radness

As part of the epic Twitter carry community, we are pretty often sent links to radness. One such recent link was a way to melt plastic bags together to make a Tyvek like material, that can then be stitched into … Continue reading

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Carry Hacks | Juice Wallet

We love a good hack at Carryology, so this juice wallet gets us feeling all warm and fuzzy. One of our contributors Brian moonlights in Oak Bay Bicycles, and frothed when Victoria reached for this number to pay for her … Continue reading

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Hacks | Beer Carton Organizer

Customising a desk organizer Do you remember our recent post on Chato Aganza’s Moleskin wallet hack? As art director for Surfing Mag, it’s kinda Chato’s job to flip crew out, so we thought it would be fun to show his … Continue reading

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The Moleskine Wallet

The Moleskine Wallet We kinda start acting like little kids who’ve eaten too much sugar when we see interesting carry hacks. It’s so rad to see people start hacking and tweaking to create something that suits their lifestyle. We just … Continue reading

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Following Up | IV Backpack

Following Up | IV Backpack We’ve had an incredible response for the I.V. Backpack post, with loads of awesome crew coming out of the woodwork to offer some help, thoughts and ideas. We figured we’d do a follow up post … Continue reading

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Creating a Frame Bag for your Bike

Following on from the ‘create your own pannier‘ post we dropped a while a back, we got tipped off about a post that Rob from Ventura, CA slice together on how to create a frame bag for your bag. It’s … Continue reading

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Make Your Own Bicycle Pannier

Make Your Own Bicycle Pannier Bicycle panniers are amazing. They hold the things you’re carrying away from you, so you’re less likely to get sweaty, and they hold the weight low on your bike in order to give you better … Continue reading

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Voile Ski Straps

Voile Ski Straps Ski straps are a useful item, in a similar vein to bungie cords for a car. At first glance they look like a dog collar (or cat?, but who owns cats these days?). But the old school … Continue reading

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11 Impossibly Loaded Bikes

Here at Carryology we try to share better ways to carry with you, but every now and again we find something that goes against everything we stand for. And we have to share it. We found the following over at … Continue reading

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MacGyver Clothing

Scottevest has been around for a decade now, but we’d never really thought to post about them. Then an article from Core77, pinged to us from Aaron at Knog, and we figure it’s time to share this special kind of … Continue reading

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Anti Wallets

The Anti Wallet No matter how small you can make a wallet, it will still be too big for some. So crew start cutting and hacking and unearthing all sorts of ways to carry their pocket contents without the traditional … Continue reading

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Slimming your wallet

5 steps to Wallet Emancipation There is no excuse for a Costanza wallet. It gets in your way, it cramps your style, and it broadcasts an inability to control the details. If you are suffering from a brick of a … Continue reading

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Micro Pens

Micro pens for the pocket This is a little to the left. Pens don’t carry anything besides ink, so you might be wondering why we’re talking (or at the least typing) about them… Well, we like to carry pens and … Continue reading

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Carrying Bike Locks

The bigger they are, the harder they carry Cycling is taking over the world. It’s going to solve global warming, world peace, and be the next US president. The downsides to cycling are back baths and thieving scum, and it’s … Continue reading

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Welcome to the Security Theatre…

Dispelling some common air travel myths Bruce Schneier is one of those specialists that have transcended their area of expertise. An expert in cryptography, internet security and now security as a broader issue, his commentary has the kind of common … Continue reading

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Your Hoody

Winter’s coming, the chill will soon be upon us and everyone will be diving for their favourite hoodys. It’s just what happens. Now most people just slide on their hoodies with no thought for any further use that their beloved … Continue reading

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Furoshiki – The simple wrapping square

Simple is kinda nice… For all our love of feature rich bags, there’s times when the Ikea bag or a simple wrap forms the perfect carry aid. So here’s a little look in to the timeless art of Furoshiki – … Continue reading

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Incognito laptop cases

Ideas to keep your laptop hidden from dodgy scoundrels Camera bags used to be very obviously camera bags. That was fine for shooting weddings, but it was a pretty loud request to be mugged anywhere else. The best selling bags … Continue reading

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How do you deal with earbud tangles?

How do you deal with earbud tangles? What do you do with your earbuds when not using them? If you sport anything with an ‘i’ in front of it, you probably have a set of earbuds that are kept at … Continue reading

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