Bike packing bags

ddraver
ddraver Posts: 26,388
edited April 2015 in MTB buying advice
Hi Guys

tried this in the roadie section but they re all into racks and leather...

Currently, I'm looking for a large saddle pack to carry some stuff in as i need to start doing long road rides ('00s of km) and would like to carry a few extra bits of kit and post ride stuff. I also forsee some MTB bikepacking in the future and so would like something that I could use for that too, so it needs to be a tad larger.

I was looking at the alpkit koala as I ve heard of them but there are a few other brands iv e found like apidura (UK) and revelate (US). I'd like to stay british if possible just becasue. The apidura also looks good. Revelate seem to be super expensive!

Does anyone have any experience or ideas?
Thanks for your help!
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