Okay, I'm finally back on with a picture. It was very nice of Sandee and Jbrat to post photos, thank you guys! Just a small critique or two since the poster is asking the technically correct way to do up breeching....
In Sandee's shot the holdback strap appears to be wrapped
behind the footman's loop instead of in front of it and is not tucked under the last wrap; on Jbrat's the traces are running above the holdback instead of through the buckled loop and because her cart has the footman's loops too far back (something you'll see on a lot of mini carts) she had to wrap a lot of extra strap behind the loop as well as in front of it.
The correct way to connect the breeching is to bring the holdback strap forward under the shaft and trace and run it through the loop towards the outside without twisting. Wrap the strap
forward of the loop and around the shaft towards the inside enough times to take up the slack and still have enough room to buckle. Twice is desirable, three times okay, more than that and you should be adjusting either holdbacks or the location of the footman's loop if it's your permanent cart and harness. When you have enough wraps tuck the end of the strap under the LAST wrap, the one closest to the breeching, then buckle it in
over the trace so the trace runs through the open space without being caught in any of the wraps.
Here's a quick crop of my breeching with the Hyperbike.
Because my traces drop to a lowered singletree I don't run it through the holdback strap but rather through a specific "trace carrier" that hangs from my breeching ring. If I had a particularly high singletree I might let the traces run above the holdback straps to avoid pulling the traces out of alignment but generally on an easy entry cart it should run through the buckled holdback strap.
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