HMPS

light lighter lightest !

Badenoch

I would make the front compartment of my B&R 231X more like the front compartment of the B&R Verb computer bags.

mahanaloa

^^^

Great minds think alike

Tizzette

Large wheels (on 2 wheelers) like Eagle Creek uses makes pulling easier but they need to be more recessed to use up as little as possible of the 22 inches. Add a bag straps with a hook option. The hook makes it so much easier when you have to separate your bags to get on a shuttle or stairs. A side pocket with elastic to hold a water bottle, an umbrella or a rolledup newspaper. A bungee for your coat. Inside, where most of the top lids have one large zipper compartment, I'd like it divided in two, one mesh, one clear plastic.

Cargojon

Exactly. For some reason I think that gap is too narrow. Seems to jam a finger every once and awhile.

I mean this thingy right below here.

ChimarraoMate

I found this video and it looks like new company may be doing just that.

http://www.retracenterprises.com/media/

NYTA

I have the Tumi Super Leger International. If I could modify it, I'd make it expandable, and I'd make it a little lighter - I think there's about half a pound of unnecessary padding that could go. Expandable because sometimes when I'm on a business trip I carry on on the way out and check on the way home if I have bought a lot of stuff. Also, sometimes in winter I'd like to put a coat inside my bag once I'm past the sizers.

Cloudship

Kind of like this? http://www.amazon.com/Travel-Smart-C.../dp/B0020MMCNO

I've thought about this. But in the end I couldn't figure out how to turn the wheels in and out without lots of complicated mechanics that ended up tasking up a lot of room and weight, not to mention made it too hard to do while trying to board a plane. For that matter one thing I dont like about the B&R is that while it is nice to have the handle on the outside, you loose a lot of in between space too. I'd almost rather have the space taken up along the side of the bag than from the depth.

pilotalan

Exactly. The space of the tubes is wasted either way. By putting them outside, you lose that inch across the entire width of the bag. That's a lot of cubes.

RobbieRunner

I'd mod mine to have a 12,000 or 15,000 mAh Lithium-Ion Rechargeable Battery Pack molded to the inside top with Two USB ports flush on the exterior!
I no longer travel with a Laptop, but with a Chromebook and a Tablet. And two Cell Phones. I don't need 110 volt, but I do need USB Power. It really would be easy to put in a rechargeable Lithium-Ion battery pack and mod the bag with two nice flush USB ports on a Carry-On bag.

I may have to try this. Yes, I know you can buy a battery with the ports in it, but I'm talking about modding a bag with the battery built in and the ports flush on the exterior top or on the high sides so you don't have to open anything or pull out a battery pack or wires. You just plug in your tablet or cell right into your bag.

That would be slick and convenient.

Mellonc

Actually, it's a little more completed than that once you start to think about putting the bag inside a confined space. How it sits in there (e.g. inside of overhead bin) determines the ultimate amount of space you have. Anyway, I've done a thread on this topic. It's a bit nerdy but you can check it out.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...e-outside.html

Cloudship

True, but in almost all cases, the true sizing limits are not the overhead bins themselves, it's the airline sizer, which is a rectangular block. I have a couple of good suitcases which easily fit in the overheads, but now with stricter carry-on policing, dont fit the sizers. So that is what you have to design to.

Mellonc

actually a sizer IS a space constraint. The bag has to fit in the space. You will note that most bags with handle inside has wheels sticking out in the back. As such, it wastes space also (becasue the extrusion of the wheel becomes the max measurement of the bag) Briggs and Riley gets rid of that problem by moving other parts out of the bag and making them become the perimeter of the bag.

IsleOfMan

The tubes on the exterior of a B&R bag add much more depth than the wheels protruding from most any other bag. The wheels of my TravelPro Crew 9 protrude 0.54" from the rear plane of the bag, while the tubes of a B&R bag are easily 0.75-1", along with the cubes of packable space lost around/between the tubes.

Mellonc

yes. I agree with your statement. The Briggs bags protrude 1 and 3/8 inch outside - meaning that it lost that much space.

However, if you lay it flat on the ground. the extrusion from the wheels and extrusion from the handle are exactly the same 1 and 3/8 inch enabling the bag to lay perfectly flat - making the entire perimeter a rectangle.

As such, and going back to the OP's request, I said that it would be great, if Briggs can devise a wheel system that can retract into that "void" or "space" into that cavernous area say, between the handle bars or outside of the handle bars while keeping the "extrusion" still at 1 and 3/8 of an inch so that no more space is wasted......