RESTRAP DRY BAGS FOR BIKEPACKING

Welcome back friends. A while back I was doing a weekend backpacking trip with 20 buddies or so and a few weeks before that I started getting my load out all together and make sure everything's fit and I was gonna have enough room for all the stuff that I wanted to carry and I was almost there and uh I said well I'm just gonna have to take a backpack and I really didn't want to take a backpack so I slept on some of these Blackburn Outpost cages on the front forks there and then I needed to get some dry bags to put up front. I didn't need a whole lot of room but I just needed some and uh I said well I'm gonna get some of my dry bags here check those out this is a No Limits 9 liter uh actually what I use for my bear bags and we also had some Sea to Summits around here but these are just two they're nine liters is fine it's just they were too big they're too big around take up too much room to stick way out too far on the fork so I started looking around trying to find something that would fit and I came across these dry bags here from a company called Restrap or you can call it Restrap if you want to. They are a company out of Yorkshire, England and it seemed to be just perfect for what I wanted to do. The material I can't find out exactly what material is but it's probably 40D material they are completely waterproof because I rode in the rain for about an hour with them but I needed something about this size and mainly this diameter. These are six inches in diameter and fully packed like this they're about 17 and three quarters of an inch tall so uh it was exactly what I was looking for but the best thing is they were $13.95 a piece. Now looking at some of the other dry bags that are out there the ones that Blackburn can sell you or the one Salsa can sell you I mean you're talking 30, 32, 33 dollars plus I really didn't like them anyway they were bigger diameter than I wanted. My Sea to Summit bags you know this Sea to Summit one here it's a nice bag it's a little thinner but it's a lot bigger around and these things are 25 bucks so I couldn't find anything I wanted and I was lucky to come across this one here I just did a bunch of googling and working on it. So I want to show you how these fit on the bike and how they work with me so let's take a look at it. This is pretty much what it looked like when we came in from our bikepacking trip. I loaded this one out as full as I could get it so you guys could get a good look at it. You're going to expect about 17 and three quarter inches maximum length six inches in diameter which is perfect size for a front fork bag in my opinion. The only thing I would do if I was going to load this out this heavy I would probably run another strap around my front fork up here just to make this thing a little more stable. Now this is the 8 liter version they also make a 14 which would obviously be too big for this application and they also make this thing in a in a double roll top so you can have this at the top and the bottom but as far as a front fork bag this is going to be exactly the configuration you want. Now even though I've got this thing loaded out like this there's no knee interference here with me. There's no problem with turning. There's no problem with it interfering with my revelate sweet roll which is where I keep my tent which is right up there. Everything worked perfect and when I ordered these things you know to tell you the truth they're $13.95. I didn't have a whole lot of high expectations about the quality of this thing but I tell you what when it came in it just kind of knocked my socks off. This thing's badass. The fit and finish of this the quality of the materials they use is awesome. The seams are perfect. I ran this thing in the rain for about an hour not a single drop of water anywhere. You've got an extra thickness down here at the bottom rubberized bottom where you would expect it to be. The material is exactly the thickness I wanted. I wanted something that was going to be thicker and durable than this seat of summit but not as thick as something you would find in say a kayak dry bag or something like that or some of the bags that even the ones I saw from Blackburn and Salsa. They just seem to be too heavy. This is the perfect mix of weight and quality and durability and price as far as I'm concerned. Now this is like I said a six inch diameter bag so you're not going to get a huge opening here but it fit my cook kit perfect and I think it'll work out just great for you for whatever you decide to use it for. I think I'm going to order another one of these because this bag will be perfect to strap to my rear rack or the top of my seat post bag back there if I need to carry some extra gear. It's not real big and bulky. It's a nice slim design and I think it'll work out perfect especially for $13.95. Now these guys make a complete line of bike touring and bike packing bags and accessories. I'll go ahead and put a link down below so you can go check them out but you don't have to go to England to get them. All you need to do is google restrap dry bags and you're going to get a list of three or four places here in the states where you can buy these things. I think I got mine at Moose Jaw. I'm not sure but I know Moose Jaw does carry these so that'll be one place you'll be able to get them. I don't know what more to say about these bags other than they are going to get our highest recommendation which is two thumbs up with double snaps because these are, I'm telling you, eight liters of badassery. You need to go check them out especially for $13.95. If you like what you see here don't forget to give us the old thumbs up, hit that subscribe button, and make sure to check out some of our other videos. So until next time you guys be safe and we hope to see you out on the road. Adios!