Final yr, Osprey teased their now-available Escapist bikepacking and body bag assortment. This yr, they’re including to it, however it from the racing facet of issues with new hydration vests. There’s additionally massive updates to the Raven and Raptor MTB packs, and many sizes for the frames baggage.
Starting from $80 to $90, the Body Bag is available in three sizes, with a smaller Wedge bag including a bit of additional storage for $60. Mix them with the highest tube bag, handlebar roll bag, and a roll-top saddle bag, and also you’ve bought an entire setup.
All of them use a PFAS-free DWR coating and waterproof zipper with 100% recycled 210D nylon. Velcro straps connect them to the body.
Osprey’s authentic Escapist packs had been bigger, geared toward informal bikepacking. However with the highest tube and wedge baggage working nice for long-distance gravel racers (and the rising recognition of such occasions), they wanted a correct race vest.
They stated numerous riders had been utilizing their operating vests, however now there’s a bike-specific choice that provides some intelligent options. It’ll are available in 3L and 6L sizes with a 1L hydration bladder inside. The 3L can stuff just a few issues in the principle reservoir compartment, however the 6L will get a devoted cargo part and tool-roll decrease zip pocket.
The entrance has two stretch mesh stash pockets (one on the 3L) in entrance of zippered mesh pockets which are sized for bigger snacks, a cellphone, folded maps, and so forth.
Adjustable facet and chest straps assist you dial within the match. Either side characteristic a useful sun shades sleeve…slide one arm into the small gap and it kinda traps your shades when it’s good to stow them.
The Osprey Escapist race vests received’t be obtainable for some time, possible early 2025, although. Identical for…
…the following era Raptor and Raven mountain bike hydration packs. Each will get a brand new, slimmer model of their Lid-Lock helmet seize. The brand new “deal with” is quite a bit thinner, however a bit wider, which can make it simpler to slip into narrower helmet air vents and in addition maintain them extra securely.
The Raptor (above) will are available in 10L and 14L sizes. Each have zippered software rool pockets on the underside and a entrance stash pocket for jackets, however the 14L stacks a zippered cargo pocket in entrance of that:
The place the present Raptor/Raven baggage had a entrance zippered storage pocket with the identical two little mesh pockets and key hook, the zipper and entry had been on the facet and made it laborious to see what all was in there. Now, it has a big U-shaped opening that reveals all. Teh small orange bungies on the within of the flap are used to tighten up the Lid Lock.
The Raptor (males’s) and Raven (ladies’s) will even get new colours, the Airscape again panel padding, dimension zip pockets on the hip belt, and their full-zip hydration reservoir pocket with magnetic hose administration on the sternum strap.
