mistercindy
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The brown truck brought the Bags Connection mapholder today! It looks like a heckuva product. I put it on the Trip quick lock bag this morning for my commute to work. It was a good day for testing because I was riding 30 miles south, and we had 25 MPH winds gusting to 45 MPH coming out of the southwest. If the mapholder was ever going to be unstable it'd be this morning! But it was solid as a rock. 
The mapholder has two clips that attach to two D-rings on the bag. The other side has a velcro flap. If you want to get into the bag without removing the mapholder you undo the velcro and flip it up. Works like a charm.
BTW, the folks at twistedthrottle, where I ordered the mapholder, ought to have better pictures of it because its way cooler than you can see from the pictures they have. That, and I had no idea that there was a 9" x 4" "pocket" that fits into the mapholder, which is 10" x 9 1/2". The pocket can be removed, but when its in the mapholder it remains stable by a small strip of velcro. It has a clear plastic top, like the top of the mapholder, so you can see what's inside of it. It'd be the perfect place for a battery operated GPS device in a space that'd be fairly water resistant. But I'll probably put a couple of pens or maybe my folded insurance paper in it.
The mapholder itself, which I measure at 10" X 9 1/2" looks darn solid. It opens and shuts with a zipper with a large round thingy on it so you can open it with gloves. I like the fact that the mapholder can hold at least a half inch of paper or whatever you'd put in it. Not that I'd ever do that, but I like to have a map folded to north Texas in my mapholder, but if I've ever printed a google map I've always had to remove the Texas map to fit the two together. I tend to be a hoarder, so that may not be a positive feature for me, but I like it!
I gotta say that this looks like a heckuva product. I've spent a lifetime with a love/hate relationship with tankbags/mapholders, and this quick lock Trip bag and mapholder seems to be the most user friendly and well built that I've ever owned.
The mapholder has two clips that attach to two D-rings on the bag. The other side has a velcro flap. If you want to get into the bag without removing the mapholder you undo the velcro and flip it up. Works like a charm.
BTW, the folks at twistedthrottle, where I ordered the mapholder, ought to have better pictures of it because its way cooler than you can see from the pictures they have. That, and I had no idea that there was a 9" x 4" "pocket" that fits into the mapholder, which is 10" x 9 1/2". The pocket can be removed, but when its in the mapholder it remains stable by a small strip of velcro. It has a clear plastic top, like the top of the mapholder, so you can see what's inside of it. It'd be the perfect place for a battery operated GPS device in a space that'd be fairly water resistant. But I'll probably put a couple of pens or maybe my folded insurance paper in it.
The mapholder itself, which I measure at 10" X 9 1/2" looks darn solid. It opens and shuts with a zipper with a large round thingy on it so you can open it with gloves. I like the fact that the mapholder can hold at least a half inch of paper or whatever you'd put in it. Not that I'd ever do that, but I like to have a map folded to north Texas in my mapholder, but if I've ever printed a google map I've always had to remove the Texas map to fit the two together. I tend to be a hoarder, so that may not be a positive feature for me, but I like it!
I gotta say that this looks like a heckuva product. I've spent a lifetime with a love/hate relationship with tankbags/mapholders, and this quick lock Trip bag and mapholder seems to be the most user friendly and well built that I've ever owned.
One question about that velcro that holds the mapholder down. The mapholder came with a separate piece of velcro that attaches to both the mapholder and then the bag. What purpose does it serve, other than for elongating the reach of the velcro by about a half inch?
