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Tortec is a company that specialises in manufacturing a wide variety of bicycle carrying devices. They design many different panier racks and bicycle accessories to fit all kinds of bicycles. Askew Cycles carries the following Tortec products: 5mm Alloy Bottle Cage, Reflector Full Length Mud Guard and P-Clips Stay Brackets.

ALTURA LUGGAGE

Altura consistantly research, design and develop incredibly versatile, affordable and high quality cycling clothing year on year. The brand has become synonomous with value and performance and their cycling jackets, cycling shorts, cycling overtrousers, cycling gloves and cycling base layers continue to be seen on trails and roads every where, this is testament to the Altura brand and all that Altura stands for. Each year the product id reviewed and devloped inorder for it to be the best it can be.

Pannier Bags

Pannier bags also commonly referred to as "Panniers" are the traditional and still the best way of carrying a lot of weight on a bike. If you're shopping, touring and camping, there really isn't a viable alternative. Using a pannier rack and bag increased the amount of carrying capacity 5 fold over carrying stuff in a rucsac. Also panniers are an advantage over a rucsac as you can move freely on your bike without the hinderence of a rucsac.

It is recommend where possible to spread the load around the bag, hence the ideal soultion for touring would be a pair of large (50 litre or so) rear panniers (obviously you need to use a good quality rear rack) combined with a pair of smaller (20 litre or so) front pair. The golden rule tho to touring is "try not to take too much stuff!"

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