luggage RSS

gear backpack, gear duffle bag, luggage, Product talk, Race bags, race rain bag, rolling travel bag, rolling travel bag xl, undersaddle mini, undersaddle xl -

A first experience report on the Castelli Gear Backpack

Usually it’s my girlfriend who gets excited by bags, normally the handbag variety. This time around it was my time to get excited about a bag. Finally after daydreaming and wondering as to when and if Castelli would release a range of luggage, they sprung it on us fans. A strong line up of roller bags for flying, wet bags for storing cycling kit and saddle packs. I was lucky enough to get my hands on one of the Castelli backpacks. And a stunning black and red thing it is too. I was given the bag a few weeks back at the start of the Giro. Since then I’ve had plenty of time to fill it with everything from groceries to the cycling kit that I’m sure it was intended to carry, it had a short but intensive testing from me, being my go to back on every occasion I’ve needed to carry stuff. What I’ve found is that the design team at Castelli have produce a product that hits what a backpack should offer and work like. It’s a bag that does its job remarkably well and to boot it looks damn lovely. The guys at Castelli don’t seem ...

Read more

Tags