Buy Geigerrig Rig 1200 Pressurized Hydration Pack - BlackGeigerrig Rig 1200 Pressurized Hydration Pack - Black Product Description:
- Fabric Heavy duty dura-oxkin
- Bladder 100 oz., quick-release valves for drinking tube and pressurization tube for easy refill and bladder removal, slide top for easy refill, cleaning and drying
- Zippers Heavy Duty Size 8 Coil Zippers
- I-Pod ready compartment with waterproof zipper garage
- Removable waist strap
Product Description
Geigerrig Rig 1200 Pressurized Hydration Pack Fabric Heavy duty dura-oxkin
Bladder 100 oz., quick-release valves for drinking tube and pressurization tube for easy refill and bladder removal, slide top for easy refill, cleaning and drying
Zippers Heavy Duty Size 8 Coil Zippers
I-Pod ready compartment with waterproof zipper garage
Removable waist strap
Shoulder Strap ergonomic fit, terraced overlay for adjustable tube configuration and power bulb configuration, industrial load dispersement cut and padding
Chest Strap Integrated slider chest strap
Additional Features Plug play reservoir tube connector, compression straps, PVC reinforced exterior side heavy mesh pockets, external bungy storage system, reflective tabs zipper pulls, internal storage compartments and organizer, eco rig back pads, air drive ventilation, heavy duty nylon pack handle
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
5 stars for the water bladder, 3 for the pack.
By tony_snark
So I bought one of these for three reasons. Probably the most influential was because it was on a sweet sale for 70 bucks, almost half off what it was retailing for at the time. The second was that after some post-Irene multiday hiking in some relatively low-lying (read: wet, hot, and humid) areas in northeast CT this summer I was sick of having to stop on-trail to refill my 2-liter skin. In my mind grapes, the whole point of hydration packs is that you worry about them once in the morning and then don't have to think about them all day. That little hose is just there for you whenever your li'l whistle needs wettin'. The third reason was that I was sick of my messenger bag swinging around behind me while I bike around Brooklyn and Manhattan every day dodging rage-addled cab drivers and bike-lane-waddling tourists. I hadn't purchased a day-sized pack since high school, and my ragged old Jansport covered in names of punk bands scrawled in wite-out pen isn't going to fly around here when I'm almost 30. So, for a very reasonable price, I picked up a supposedly high-tech new hydration bladder and what I hoped would be a good-looking digi-camo daypack in one fell swoop. First for the hydration bladder. As Geigerrig advertises, this thing feels positively bombproof. It's not your standard soft blue waterskin. It's this pebbly-textured thing that feels akin to kevlar cloth. This video is a pretty good demonstration: http://youtu.be/Zd48bBwLIUA. They're for serious. As an added bonus, they do away with the camelbak-style cap-closure that makes those impossible to clean properly; it's got the nice slide-closure type seal at the top, and it locks into place reassuringly. The full open top lets you turn it inside out to clean it much more thoroughly than the cap-type openings, and Geigerrig claims it's dishwasher-safe. I live in north Brooklyn and don't even know anybody who has a dishwasher in this town unless that dishwasher has a name and gets paid, so I can't test it out on that front. But again, the thing feels bulletproof, so I've got no reason to doubt their claim. The addition of the quick release fittings is an awesome touch... just disconnect the thing to take it out of your pack, refill it, and reconnect it when you put it back in. The drinking hose will drain back a little from the fitting, but the male ends on the bladder itself don't leak a drop. As for the pressurization thing, I could take it or leave it. Again, I bought the thing because it was 70 bucks for a new pack and the size bladder I needed, so I just looked at it as an added bonus. I've never had a problem with pulling on a bite valve to get my water out and, frankly, I find myself still sucking on it even when I have it pressurized to keep it from dribbling out of my mouth. I suppose the spraying action would be nice if you were a boulderer or something that spent a lot of time at crazy angles, but I hike and I bike, so it's not a huge issue for me. Also, inflating the thing does increase the amount of space it takes up in your pack. Leave it unpressurized though, and it works just like a regular water skin. Since it's got the quick release fitting and they make a snap-in filtration system for it, though, I may end up using the pressurization in the future to give the water some extra push through the filter if I pick one of those up. That'll be nice for multiday trips. Finally, the thing fits just fine in the water bladder sleeve in my Gregory pack and, since it's got dual side ports for hydration hoses I can use the drinking hose and the pressure hose. Geigerrig thoughtfully made the little stretchy webbed sleeve that hold the pressure bulb in place removable from the pack, so that fits on the shoulder strap on my Gregory as well. Now, for the pack itself. It does, as I hoped, look pretty sweet. I'm a sucker for camo, and the pattern's kind of a cross between the woodland and desert MARPAT color schemes. At any rate, it's pretty stylin'. For an urban redneck like me, at least. As far as the construction and design of the pack go, I honestly don't have any major gripes. I do, however, have enough little gripes to add up and detract from my rating of the pack on the whole. THE GOOD: The stitching is straight across the board, and boy howdy is it heavy. That video I mentioned earlier? If that model pack was built like this one, I'm surprised it didn't take the explosion as well as the bladder. Every seam is at least doubled on itself, if not tripled (my packs full of school stuff and bike tools right now and I'm not unpacking it to look everywhere). The connection points for the side compression straps are extra-heavily cross-stitched in a wide "X," and the rest of the compression straps are sewn into those double-reinforced seams. The zippers feel great and have kept out every drop of rain I've ridden through since I got it, and lately around here that's been a lot. The little iPod/iPhone compartment up top is a nice touch, and it's got a nice soft lining to keep your screen in good shape. THE BAD: Yes, this pack comes with a waist belt. Does that waist belt do anything to keep the weight off your shoulders? No, no it does not. It's just a nylon strap with a buckle. At the connection points for said belt (thank God it's removable) there are two iiitsy-iiitsy-bitsy little flaps that I guess are supposed to simulate a padded waistbelt, but they do nothing and don't even come past your back, much less onto your hips. I'm a size 29 waist and 140 pounds if I haven't crapped yet today, so if they don't reach my hips then trust me, they won't reach yours. On an 8-miler up Balsam Lake Mountain in the Catskills last week I tried every method of adjustment known to man to get even a little of the weight onto my hips, but to no avail. Now, I know that nowhere does Geigerrig claim that this is a technical daypack, but, I mean, how many non-technical daypacks even hold, much less come with, a 3-liter hydration bladder? At the price I paid for it, I shouldn't complain, but at the suggested retail of $130 you're way, way far enough over the price of a Gregory Miwok 18 or an Osprey Talon 22 that you could pick up either of those packs (packs that have actual, padded waistbelts and things like load-lifter straps and thick, foam padded shoulder straps instead of a thin strip of foam rubber squashed between fabric) and still have the scratch left over to pick up a brand-name hydration bladder. And then buy lunch. Now, for the record... am I ever really going to have enough weight in a 20-liter daypack to worry about raw shoulders? Probably not. But the fact that top-of-the-line names like Gregory and Osprey can produce packs loaded with technical features like that at a lower price point makes it seem like Geigerrig is skimping. Next item, hose placement. When this shipped, the pressure bulb was on the left side of the pack and the drinking tube was on the right. Since the drinking tube was over there, so was the retaining clip for it on the shoulder strap. Unfortunately, the way the hoses connect to the bladder, this means they were cris-crossing each other in the bladder compartment before they came out of the over-shoulder ports. This trimmed maybe an inch off the usable length of the drinking tube, and it meant that the pressure hose was prone to kinking when you started to inflate the bladder. This would cause back pressure in the tube and blow the tube off the nipple on the pressure bulb. After some fiddling around with it it came unkinked, but it was still an annoyance. Furthermore, the pack came shipped with the hose clip attached to the strap BELOW the sternum strap, with the sternum strap set at strangulation level. As such, the only direction to slide the clip was down, especially if you wanted to use the sternum strap (I didn't). Coupled with the aforementioned shortened usable-length of the drinking tube, I found that when I was riding my bike and trying to keep my eyes ahead of me, bringing the drinking tube up to my mouth involved too much of an angle for it, kinking it up. Obviously, the solution was to swap the drinking and pressure tubes to opposite sides. This, however, involved slicing away the reinforcing stitch at the end of each adjustment strap, as the straps wouldn't pull all the way through the ladderlocks with the doubled-over section at the ends. The drinking tube retaining clip I then took off (it is, thankfully, removable), swapped to the left side, and placed ABOVE the sternum strap slider. Now that the drinking tube has a cleaner line from the left side of the bladder up out over the left shoulder it has a little extra length and, since the retaining clip is higher up on the strap, there's enough extra hose after the clip to bring it to my mouth without tilting my head and eyes down. Again, this wasn't a huge issue since it was fixable, but it just felt lazy to overlook those little details. THE UGLY: Like I said earlier, this pack looks pretty sweet from a style standpoint. But, since I'm the first reviewer and all, I'm trying to cover everything. The one and only cosmetic fault I can find is that the fabric at the top of the pack, where the shoulder strap assembly is sewn to the body of the pack, is a little bunched up. Not a lot. Just a little. Now, I'm not sure this is actually a fault... it may need the extra fabric up there so that the hose sleeves are loose enough to get the bite valve up and through there. But, again, at this bag's suggested retail, I feel like i should mention everything. Like the title of this review said, 5 stars for the bladder, 3 stars for the pack. The pack isn't bad, for what it is. But there were enough little things here and there that the pack just felt like an afterthought, like something to just package the high-tech bladder inside of. I guess to sum it up: For a measly 70 bucks, this was an incredible buy and I couldn't be happier. Would I cough up 130 bucks for it? Only if I was drunker than a popcorn fart and really in the mood for some digicam in my life.
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