Scott Spencer
Pasco, WA
Fox Racing - Portage Hydration Pack
An excellent backpack for Dual Sport and everyday street riding. Love it.
Jason Lipka
Rock Springs, WY
Excellent, except for 1 thing...
This is a great little pack. Plenty of room for anything you'd want to take on a ride and a huge reservoir that ensures your thirst will be the least of your concerns out there. The product description is poor. It fails to mention two things - 1 good, 1 bad. The good thing is it has a strap at your sternum AND a strap for your waist. This keeps the pack from bouncing around while riding. The bad thing is it doesn't come with any sort of clip or holder for the hydration tube. You have to kind of wedge it under the sternum strap (uncomfortable) or it just flops around (annoying). The only other nag I have is that you have to take the valve off the end of the hydration tube to slide the tube through the reservoir pocket. This basically means that you can't take the reservoir out to fill it because after you fill it, there is nothing at the end of the tube to keep it from spilling out. Make sense? I have a nalgene reservoir that has a quick connect tube at the bottom of the bladder - this would be perfect.
Overall, an excellent product with a few minor design shortcomings. If I find a tube clip, I'll be much happier.