They are fantastic in all weather, any length of ride. I've done bikepacking trips that were multi-day rain settled in for the long haul. I don't bag things, just stuffing them in. Here's the details of how they work in my experience:
-- TrunkSacks: some minimal water will seem in at the exposed zipper. Not enough to matter on a day ride, and I don't care too strongly on a multi-day ride as it is my food bag. I use a small on the front for food on multi-day rides, and a large on the rear rack for day rides. -- TourSacks: These are my most abused bags and I just popped the D-ring rivet on one of them. The field fix was tying it together with a lace and using other D-rings to secure the load. No change to the trip. When riding, I've had no issues with rain or snow finding their way into the bags. I keep the panniers in the vestibule at night, so they aren't sitting out in all-night rains. -- SaddleSack: If they didn't keep the weight up so high, I'd go with these every time. I found the easy access to everything a big bonus, and never got wet inside at all despite being left out nights backpacking through some epic torrential all night rains. If my vertigo didn't make me such a wimp with the weight higher, I'd bikepack with the large SaddleSack and be delighted. Maintenance: None for 4 years until the rivet popped on my TourSacks. That should be an easy fix at a local store, but I've yet to call around. Mud collects nicely on them, dried, and falls off with use. Rain and snow shed beautifully. Bashes and scrapes into raw/sharp decomposed granite rocks and boulders s shrugged off without issue. These are hearty beastly bags that I expect to last a decades of horrendous, loving abuse, er, use. Grin. With abandon, Patrick On Sunday, October 18, 2015 at 7:35:12 AM UTC-6, Rod Holland wrote: > > I'm assuming this line of bike bags does OK with wet weather. > > Thanks, > > rod > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
