Right, my GroBag arrived in the post this morning. The packaging was as bulletproof as the bag - wrapped in foam then sewn up in a wacking great white tarpaulin sack (postage label had come unstuck so there was a £9 excess postage, but my postie is cool and let me off).
The bag is absolutely cavernous, built like a Sherman tank, and has so many options and features it'll take me weeks to get the hang of them all. I loaded it up with three years worth of bike mags, two sets of shoes, a bag of spanners and a bunch of hardback books, and once it's on your back you hardly notice it. There's a mind-boggling degree of adjustability on the straps, and you can dial everything in.
I'll post again once I've ridden it for a few weeks and got a better feeling for it, but first impressions are seriously impressed. If you rely on your bag for a living, you won't get better than this. A good deal at £200, at £120 it's a screaming bargain.
Right, my GroBag arrived in the post this morning. The packaging was as bulletproof as the bag - wrapped in foam then sewn up in a wacking great white tarpaulin sack (postage label had come unstuck so there was a £9 excess postage, but my postie is cool and let me off).
The bag is absolutely cavernous, built like a Sherman tank, and has so many options and features it'll take me weeks to get the hang of them all. I loaded it up with three years worth of bike mags, two sets of shoes, a bag of spanners and a bunch of hardback books, and once it's on your back you hardly notice it. There's a mind-boggling degree of adjustability on the straps, and you can dial everything in.
I'll post again once I've ridden it for a few weeks and got a better feeling for it, but first impressions are seriously impressed. If you rely on your bag for a living, you won't get better than this. A good deal at £200, at £120 it's a screaming bargain.