jdp-
I've got one - it's useless... if you put any real weight in it, and do any slightly rough roads it can come undone and bounce onto your rear wheel - not ideal.
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It certianly is, the largest model that was available at the time.
In contrast to Plexarice, I'd recommend it. I got it in 2012 for Audaxing and I've used it continually ever since.
No issues with it coming off, and I have used it over all sorts of cycling terrains - gravel paths, cobbles, trails etc etc. In terms of it's ability to take weight, I tend to try and reduce the weight of kit I take, so doubt I've gone anywhere near it's recommended weight limit. In that photo it contains a tool kit, wash things, some clothing and probably some food - normal things for a cyclist.
My only issues with it are that it has plastic studs inside to cover the inside of the bolts, which meant that I couldn't easily fashion an inner for it, from a dry bag, to slot seamlessly in when I wanted to extend it's capacity. That and the space between the bag and the saddle isn't very neat...
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Yossarian
I'm just back from another brief bikepacking trip, this time in the Harz Mountains, Germany...
The Harz Montains are amazing, and pretty close to Berlin. Dense woodland with a single strip of tarmac rising up out of the forests and into the sky towards the summit of the Brocken Mountain. I descended down single track into the valley below and scaled several smaller mountain ridges using single track before darkness approached and I slept somewhere or other in the woods. The next day I returned to the summit of the Brocken Mountain then made the lengthy decent back down to Berlin...
Lessons learnt: need wider tyres, taking spare batteries is sensible, taking flat batteries isn't... need smaller dry bag for sleeping bag that doesn't sag and rotate around the front of the bike during descents... must work out why I was both cold and sweaty during the night...
Here is the route I took:
Day 1: https://www.strava.com/activities/304671768
Day 2: https://www.strava.com/activities/304673221