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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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they double up over the seat rails to act as a pulley system
I wonder if the people who have problems with the Wildcat straps loosening haven't looped them over the saddle rails properly?
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Exactly this - if you pack the bag as suggested and fasten it properly it's rock solid and you have no idea it's there...
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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.
Always a great solution, I'm still amazed by some people whom went touring and have the loosest saddle imaging, probably gonna claim that it help with performance.
hiraethus
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edscoble
@jammy I think I'm rigght in saying he is very fond of it