Ultimate yr, Osprey teased their now-available Escapist bikepacking and body bag assortment. This yr, they’re including to it, however taking a look at it from the racing facet of items with new hydration vests. There’s additionally giant updates to the Raven and Raptor MTB packs, and quite a lot of sizes for the frames baggage.
Starting from $80 to $90, the Body Bag is available in 3 sizes, with a smaller Wedge bag including just a little of additional garage for $60. Mix them with the highest tube bag, handlebar roll bag, and a roll-top saddle bag, and also you’ve were given a whole setup.
They all use a PFAS-free DWR coating and water-proof zipper with 100% recycled 210D nylon. Velcro straps connect them to the body.
Osprey’s authentic Escapist packs had been greater, geared toward informal bikepacking. However with the highest tube and wedge baggage operating nice for long-distance gravel racers (and the rising approval for such occasions), they wanted a right kind race vest.
They stated a large number of riders had been the usage of their operating vests, however now there’s a bike-specific choice that provides some artful options. It’ll are available 3L and 6L sizes with a 1L hydration bladder inside of. The 3L can stuff a couple of issues in the primary reservoir compartment, however the 6L will get a devoted shipment segment and tool-roll decrease zip pocket.
The entrance has two stretch mesh stash wallet (one at the 3L) in entrance of zippered mesh wallet which can be sized for greater snacks, a telephone, folded maps, and so forth.
Adjustable facet and chest straps permit you to dial within the are compatible. Each side characteristic a to hand shades sleeve…slide one arm into the small hollow and it kinda traps your sun shades when you want to stow them.
The Osprey Escapist race vests gained’t be obtainable for some time, most probably early 2025, although. Similar for…
…the following era Raptor and Raven mountain motorbike hydration packs. Each gets a brand new, slimmer model in their Lid-Lock helmet seize. The brand new “maintain” is so much thinner, however just a little wider, which can provide help to slide into narrower helmet air vents and likewise grasp them extra securely.
The Raptor (above) will are available 10L and 14L sizes. Each have zippered device rool wallet at the backside and a entrance stash pocket for jackets, however the 14L stacks a zippered shipment pocket in entrance of that:
The place the present Raptor/Raven baggage had a entrance zippered garage pocket with the similar two little mesh wallet and key hook, the zipper and get entry to had been at the facet and made it laborious to peer what all used to be in there. Now, it has a big U-shaped opening that unearths all. Teh small orange bungies at the within the flap are used to tighten up the Lid Lock.
The Raptor (males’s) and Raven (girls’s) may even get new colours, the Airscape again panel padding, dimension zip wallet at the hip belt, and their full-zip hydration reservoir pocket with magnetic hose control at the sternum strap.