I’ve had one of these for 7 years and about 400,000 miles flown. It still looks pretty great and is bomb proof. The shoulder strap got eaten by an XRay machine and after wrestling it out, there wasn’t a scratch. My only complaint is that the fabric around the zippers frays over time and needs to be trimmed to keep the zippers from jamming.
If you’d like to send it in for warranty we can clean up those frays and heat seal them for you. Some have done this themselves with a lighter but do be careful not to burn the fabric or yourself. help.redoxx.com/article/83-red-oxx-no-bull-warranty
Significantly overlooked. I tried 3 of the current most popular one bag travel bags (Aer Travel Pack 3, Tortuga 40L, Peak Design 45L), all of which were either too small, didn't fit well or wasted too much of the space in various compartments and gimmicks. There's a ton of flexibility to pack how and what you want, and add whatever additional organization you want. You can under pack it to fit in most sizer dimensions (soft bag, foam inside will roll a bit to conform to personal item size if under packed significantly) or overpack it to a point it will be too wide for a 9" wide sizer, but look small enough as a backpack that nobody questions it (unless you're flying a cheap airline that makes its revenue screwing over customers for extra fees at the gate). The pack straps do now have some straps sewn to the outer side of the strap to use as attachment points or to secure the sternum strap, just like my Red Oxx C-Ruck pack. Personally, hip belts, load lifters and anything other than long fairly wide shoulder straps are mostly useless for me. I have a long torso, and just about any bag this size is going to sit a foot above my hips so none of the weight would get to my hips. Rock solid bag, great build quality. The black bags look sharp (some of the other colors can get a bit garish for my taste). The only down side for me is no dedicated laptop carry options. I swear Red Oxx has some kind of internal jihad against people that work with laptops. They only make one travel bag that has a dedicated laptop option (and that's really an oversized briefcase with room for some clothes). Just throw it in a sleeve and stick it in the bag isn't a very good option, nor the one I'm going to take with a $3000 MacBook Pro. American made. Not just "designed" in America, and outsourced to China or Vietnam. $360 (as of 5/2023) vs $300 or $350 for an offshore made brand (Peak Design & Tortuga). If you can break it or wear it out, send it back and they'll fix it. Anything but loss or theft, they fix it.
I’ve had one of these for 7 years and about 400,000 miles flown. It still looks pretty great and is bomb proof. The shoulder strap got eaten by an XRay machine and after wrestling it out, there wasn’t a scratch. My only complaint is that the fabric around the zippers frays over time and needs to be trimmed to keep the zippers from jamming.
If you’d like to send it in for warranty we can clean up those frays and heat seal them for you. Some have done this themselves with a lighter but do be careful not to burn the fabric or yourself. help.redoxx.com/article/83-red-oxx-no-bull-warranty
Significantly overlooked. I tried 3 of the current most popular one bag travel bags (Aer Travel Pack 3, Tortuga 40L, Peak Design 45L), all of which were either too small, didn't fit well or wasted too much of the space in various compartments and gimmicks.
There's a ton of flexibility to pack how and what you want, and add whatever additional organization you want. You can under pack it to fit in most sizer dimensions (soft bag, foam inside will roll a bit to conform to personal item size if under packed significantly) or overpack it to a point it will be too wide for a 9" wide sizer, but look small enough as a backpack that nobody questions it (unless you're flying a cheap airline that makes its revenue screwing over customers for extra fees at the gate).
The pack straps do now have some straps sewn to the outer side of the strap to use as attachment points or to secure the sternum strap, just like my Red Oxx C-Ruck pack.
Personally, hip belts, load lifters and anything other than long fairly wide shoulder straps are mostly useless for me. I have a long torso, and just about any bag this size is going to sit a foot above my hips so none of the weight would get to my hips.
Rock solid bag, great build quality. The black bags look sharp (some of the other colors can get a bit garish for my taste).
The only down side for me is no dedicated laptop carry options. I swear Red Oxx has some kind of internal jihad against people that work with laptops. They only make one travel bag that has a dedicated laptop option (and that's really an oversized briefcase with room for some clothes). Just throw it in a sleeve and stick it in the bag isn't a very good option, nor the one I'm going to take with a $3000 MacBook Pro.
American made. Not just "designed" in America, and outsourced to China or Vietnam. $360 (as of 5/2023) vs $300 or $350 for an offshore made brand (Peak Design & Tortuga). If you can break it or wear it out, send it back and they'll fix it. Anything but loss or theft, they fix it.
Thanks for sharing your insights! 🤙
-Eric
Not as bad as Topo designs, but a clown car of a bag.
So enlighten us. What do you recommend that's not a clown car of a bag?
@@razorpit 70 flights with Aer travel pack made me a believer.
@@intrinsicimagery So good they only had to make three versions.
@@bosco008 I'm still, on the original, and very happy.
LOL I can tell by your voice that this is a "meh" bag