South City Stitchworks Love Handles Harness

* Coming soon, first shipment due late March. Available on back order.

Designed for the needs of ultra racing and long-distance touring alike, the Love Handles turns any dry bag into a dialed-in rack bag. The standard size plays well with most racks out there including, Mica, Tailfin, Tumbleweed, Old Man Mountain, Salsa, and Hunter Cycles, to name a few. Cinch it tight with included Voile straps, stash essentials you want within reach in the side pockets, and roll on knowing your setup is dialed. Tough, tidy, and trail-proven, and ready for whatever miles you throw its way. 

Design and Function

Modern bikepacking racks have evolved to the point where strapping a massive, unstable pack to your seatpost feels like a questionable choice. The idea is to turn that dry bag on your rack into a dialed-in instrument of shred. Using a Voile strap compression system, the harness cinches your dry bag tight to the rack, adds two zippered 0.8L stretchable mesh pockets that can expand beyond their rated capacity when needed, and includes shock cord lashing up top for stashing a layer...or maybe a road soda. It keeps your bag solidly in place while shielding it (and your gear) from grit flung up by your rear wheel. The harness mounts on its own, so pulling your dry bag in or out is easy. And despite all that utility, its slim profile won’t get in your way on hike-a-bikes or tight singletrack. Plays well with panniers, too. 

Shaken down and dialed

During the prototyping stage, the Love Handles traversed the Tour Divide, the Grand Loop, Atlas Mountain Race, the Silk Road Mountain Race, Hellenic Mountain Race, Bright Midnight in Norway, toured all over Arkansas and 10 different countries…friends put it to the test, gathered the data, and I think this thing will be a trusted tool for you for thousands of miles to come. Zach at South City Stitchworks makes everyone one of these himself, and provides his rock-solid guarantee. 

“Bomb descents, not your gear. I trusted the Love Handles rack harness for every mile of the Tour Divide, and the whole way it was solid, secure, and the side pockets were clutch for access to essentials.”
– Andrew Onermaa, 2025 SS Tour Divide winner and founder of DOOM.
 

Sizing & Options

Standard size:

• For racks with platforms width less than or equal to 6.5" such as from Mica, Tumbleweed, Old Man Mountain, Salsa, and many others.
• Each Love Handles comes with 25” Voile straps - ideal for dry bags up to approx 9L, approx diameters less than 7"/18cm
• Running a bigger drybag? Grab a pair of 32" Voile straps here.

Note

Dry bag not included.

Materials

• Built utilising Ecopak EPX200 and Ultra Stretch fabrics with YKK molded-tooth zippers and legendary Voile straps, it balances durability, sustainability, and weight.
• Weighs approx 250g