BIKEPACKING BAGS

I’ve been designing and prototyping bike packing bags for a number of years for my own trips as well as others. Bikepacking is a great test bed for softgoods/hardgoods interfaces design as well as overall abrasion resistance and durability. Bikepacking is hard on bags and I love designing for really tough environments. I get to see how bar tacks fail and change sewing patterns to get more even thread loading.

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Some photos of the inside of the bags before inverting. One of the things I most enjoy about softgoods is the puzzle of assembly order and order of operations. On a simple bag like this, the order is very straight forward, but on backpacks with many pockets and panels it can get a bit challenging and can require some creative solutions.