NAZBAGS

Recently I was lucky enough to win a prize in a Women’s Adventure Riders Australia (WARA) raffle. My wonderful prize was a voucher to spend with Nazbags, a QLD based business manufacturing quality canvas bike accessories. I asked Narelle (Naz), the founder to tell us a bit more about her business. Cindy Bennett, member #4170 Naz Bags is a small Queensland based business owned by Narelle (Naz) Lyons. Their product range is made from Australian canvas and is proudly hand made in Queensland. The range includes motorcycle soft luggage such as panniers and top bags as well as tool rolls and camping gear.

Naz is a mad keen rider and camper. But also has a design degree so you can see where the mix works for the business. Some years ago she was riding all over our great country on her own, on a dr650 and camping most of the time. While she was travelling she was always wishing she had been able to make her own luggage. Since then Naz has owned a cafe racer, postie bike, went back to an Adventure bike in the Himalayan but now rides an Interceptor with a sidecar.

In 2016 Naz was working doing horse rug repairs and in a quiet period without much work she started developing some ideas using scrap canvas. This started with a tool roll made from camo scraps from Army jeep covers. As soon as she showed them on her own social media many of her riding friends ordered them. Within a month she had a website up and running. It wasn’t long before there were panniers and top bags. There are now over 35 products in the range with most available in 8 colours and other options.

With the help of husband, Michael, the business is run from a farm near Aratula but all sales are made online via a website. Not having a shop front helps to keep the prices down and allow the team to get in and work hard without interruption. They are extremely passionate about customer service and will generally modify products for no extra charge. This is made possible by making every product to order.

With the tagline “Australian Made for Adventure” you can bet that Naz and Michael are incredibly proud and carry the Aussie made ethos into as much of their lives as possible. In times like these it is important to be supporting Australian manufacturers.

Narelle has kindly provided a discount code for BMWMCQ Members to use until the end of October, this is: bmwmc10

To the left are pics of my raffle prize, a 10 litre canvas fuel bag and bladder! Can’t wait to use them.

check out the website below!

www.nazbags.com.au