Revelate Designs Frame Bag Review

We took it bikepacking and to our local lunch ride to see how it fared.

Revelate designs frame bag review.

Revelate has a full suspension frame bag on the market that fits just about any bike with horizontally mounted suspension. Load these up with water food tools and spares. The legendary tangle is the original half frame bag. Revelate designs newest dyneema infused lineup words and photography by spencer harding with additional words by lael wilcox when i heard that revelate designs was planning to release some new bags featuring fancy dyneema fabrics i was drooling.

It s called a half frame bag because it doesn t fill the entire space in front of your seat post leaving space underneath for bottle mounts. We sew and manufacture everything in the usa. Storage in this not entirely waterproof bag essentially depends on frame size but this one hauled a ton. Available at rei 100 satisfaction guaranteed.

Revelate is an alaska based business making high quality gear for the passionate hard core niche of avid cyclists. The revelate designs ripio full size frame bag is built for a wide variety of gravel touring and road bikes and offers all sorts of organizational options for your gear. With geometry optimized for frames with tall top tubes head tubes ripios fit a huge range of bikes and are packed with features that make use of the larger frame. Frame bags are the best place on the bike to carry the heavy stuff.

For those in the back that remember that pedestrian activity called backpacking which was my background before bikepacking you will remember. It velcroed around the frame working well to interface smoothly with the other bags. The revelate designs tangle frame bag is a bikepacking bag that sits in the unused space on your bike below your top tube. Saddle bags for any adventure you can dream up.

Revelate tested the bag on the iditarod trial then the great divide and now we took it to. If miles upon miles of open dirt roads are your calling the ripio frame bag will haul your stuff. It offers substantial cargo capacity in a sleek rectangular shape that fills unused space on your bike.