• Anyone using a Wildcat seatpack? Or any other stand-out/new saddle bag offerings out there at the moment?

    I'm inclined to go with the small Wildcat one as I'll just be doing fair-weather overnighters at first and it'd be good to have something small for longer dayrides too.

  • Yep, love mine. Had it for 6 years now. I used to use it without a tapered dry bag - still works fine. It's all in the packing.

    If you read the instructions they recommend packing some small, loose items at the bottom such as your socks to give that part of the dry bag some room to move to take up the space near the seatpost.

    Also re straps: As far as I can say the wildcat has the best straps system as they double up over the seat rails to act as a pulley system, giving you a 2:1 ratio mechanical advantage when tightening them. Sometimes the straps won't slide over each other too easily when tightening but a quick wiggle of the pack gets things moving so you can take out the slack. Never had the bag loosen whilst riding. Whole of TNR, South Downs way and plenty of other offroad stuff.

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