ANDY’S NEW STRAPZ

The team at Andy Strapz hasn’t redesigned their famous luggage strap in 20 years, and there’s a very good reason for that. Since they first came out and made the vile, eye-ball-pulverizing occy strap obsolete, they have been the pinnacle of luggage planning for riders. If you want to strap something to your bike, you use Andy’s stuff. Simple. Or you don’t, and suffer the indignity of luggage failure and being laughed at by your friends who know you should have used the famous green straps.

Regardless of all of that, they have now decided to design a new strap, on the premise that in order to make it worthwhile it needed to be stronger, more adaptable, easier and faster to use, and just plain sexier than the old ones.

And so the Adapta Strapz was born. Still made here in Australia with its trademark stretch webbing, the new strapz have quick release side-release buckles, and they make access to your luggage a snap. They are a breeze to release and re-tention, meaning you can get into your gear and then strap it back up in a jiffy.

Available from www.andystrapz.com for $63 a pair plus postage.