Cheap Handlebar Harness?

[Firepanda]

Unable to find a handlebar harness for less than ~ £35, though most are £50-£80+

Something like this on ebay

..which is nothing more than just a few straps it looks like, not sure why they're all so expensive, unless the official name isn't handlebar harness which is why my google searches aren't coming up with anything cheaper? I would have thought somewhere cheap like Decathlon would have jumped on selling something that simple for like £10.

If there is nothing cheaper, are bungee cords the best option and stable enough to hold say.. a 3-5kg drybag/tent?

[rualexander]

Harnesses are unnecessary.
Just strap your bag/tent on using something like https://www.alpkit.com/products/dual-straps-grey

[dnrc]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/262837107003? ... EBIDX%3AIT

[teamonster]

Alpkit are having a sale - still slightly outside your price range - now @£45

https://www.alpkit.com/products/kanga

[foxyrider]

There was a time when you could simply use some of the old toestraps that used to accumulate in the tool box.

[eileithyia]

Trying to work out what you do with a handlebar harness and for what? Pardon my ignorance.

[Gattonero]

Harnesses are unnecessary.
Just strap your bag/tent on using something like https://www.alpkit.com/products/dual-straps-grey

There was a time when you could simply use some of the old toestraps that used to accumulate in the tool box.

With flat bar levers you get the stuff too close, if not blocking your brake levers. If that is not a major issue...
Often, a "roll" (that can be only a relatively large dry sack) can be spaced out with two blocks of hard foam. I do this way, but planning to get a harness, because it makes life a lot easier in terms of speed when packing (no faffing around with straps and spacers)

[Gattonero]

Trying to work out what you do with a handlebar harness and for what? Pardon my ignorance.

For a setup like this?
(note how close the front pack gets to the bars)