Cycle backpacks - carry a work shirt without creasing?

[Ffffaster]

Does such a magical creation exist?

I've got to cycle 8 miles with a pair of chinos and a collarred, work shirt. They need to come out as presentable as possible at the end.

Any thoughts or practical solutions?

[ozzuk]

Ffffaster said:

Does such a magical creation exist?

I've got to cycle 8 miles with a pair of chinos and a collarred, work shirt. They need to come out as presentable as possible at the end.

Any thoughts or practical solutions?

Drive or drop enough shirts off once a week...

[shouldbworking]

https://iamrunbox.com/

Worked well for me

[sanguinary]

Buy a second hand just eat box.

I do the same distance as you. When I can, I drop enough clothes for the week at work. When I can’t do that, some careful folding allows me to get shirt, trousers and socks into my ‘normal sized’ back pack. I can’t fit my lunch in without creasing the clothes though, so I undo my hard work by having to go to Greggs..

[dave123456]

Ffffaster said:

Does such a magical creation exist?

I've got to cycle 8 miles with a pair of chinos and a collarred, work shirt. They need to come out as presentable as possible at the end.

Any thoughts or practical solutions?

If you fold carefully and roll up it is passable. It depends how fussy you are. At this time of the year for example I’ll go with a smart polo shirt and chinos.

Without wanting to hijack the thread I’ve always been a bit pragmatic about ironing shirts. To achieve perfection in terms of time : outcome is something of an inverse exponential. 3 mins ironing a shirt achieves probably 75% of the result 10 mins ironing does. So I tend to think that if you did achieve perfection you are probably back to 75% perfection within 15 mins of driving to work. Particularly on a hot day. So I sort of achieve 75% and am happy with that. A few of the perennial bachelors at work either have that brand new shirt square or crumpled look.

[BOR]

I take suit trousers/shirt/underwear, folded flat and placed in a plastic carrier bag.

This is placed against a laptop, so is held flat, and the plastic reduces friction on the clothes.

This seems to work well for me.

Finding a plastic bag could be tricky.

[sanguinary]

BOR said:

I take suit trousers/shirt/underwear, folded flat and placed in a plastic carrier bag.

This is placed against a laptop, so is held flat, and the plastic reduces friction on the clothes.

This seems to work well for me.

Finding a plastic bag could be tricky.

Yep, should have mentioned the plastic bag. It makes a huge difference to keeping everything flat.

[ATG]

I bought a bag organiser on Amazon a couple of years ago and it has worked rather well. I think it's branded "bagsmart". It's a bit like an envelope held together with velcro, containing a sheet of plastic a bit bigger than A4. You fold the ironed shirt around the stiff plastic sheet, then enclose it in the fabric envelope, then stick the whole thing in your suitcase or backpack. At a push you can fold a second shirt on top of the first and then wrap a pair of trousers around the two of them. There's room for socks and underwear, so it makes an extremely efficient way of packing for two nights away.

If you go for a minimum iron shirts, it helps quite a bit. Any minor wrinkles from the folding fall out pretty quickly.

[ecs]

Do you have a storage space at work? When I used to cycle to an office where I had to wear collared shirts, I kept my shirts and trousers there and had them collected by LaundryHeap for washing. (This was in London where there are loads of app based drycleaning services so YMMV).

[RizzoTheRat]

Doesn't help with the creasing, but if you're regularly commuting, panniers are so much better than a rucksack.

A pannier or rucksack that unzips it's largest face top open like a suitcase is the best option for packing stuff flat, but driving in once a week with the rest of the weeks shirts on hangers is the only real crumple free option (other than keeping an iron at work).

The other option is stuff that doesn't crease. I find the Charles Tyrwitt non iron ones aren't bad, but my Orvis casual shirts are phenomenal, I can screw them up in a ball in the bottom of a rucksack and they'll be completely crease free when I take them out.

Edited by RizzoTheRat on Monday 19th August 09:29

[lancslad58]

RizzoTheRat said:

Doesn't help with the creasing, but if you're regularly commuting, panniers are so much better than a rucksack.

A pannier or rucksack that unzips it's largest face top open like a suitcase is the best option for packing stuff flat, but driving in once a week with the rest of the weeks shirts on hangers is the only real crumple free option (other than keeping an iron at work).

The other option is stuff that doesn't crease. I find the Charles Tyrwitt non iron ones aren't bad, but my Orvis casual shirts are phenomenal, I can screw them up in a ball in the bottom of a rucksack and they'll be completely crease free when I take them out.

Edited by RizzoTheRat on Monday 19th August 09:29

Yes, panniers are much better then rucksacks, no sweaty back. put your lock in there too

[Ffffaster]

I got a cheap organiser from Amazon and it worked well.

Any one got an favouriate backpacks to recommend for cyclying?

[Randy Winkman]

When I cycle commuted I used to fold my clean shirts around a piece of thick cardboard rather like how they are often packaged new. Then in a plastic bag of the right size to hold things together.

[bigdom]

Plenty of things available. Depends how crinkle free you need to be? I just rolled mine and put them in the pannier.

https://www.johnlewis.com/thule-garment-folder/p11...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/porta-camicie-da-viaggio/...