PressCamp: Camelbak 2016

Camelbak’s 2016 range has some great new models coming out. As well as some new colours for the Kudu, with its integrated back protector, there’s a whole new range of packs, dubbed the Low Rider Collection. These take the slim lumbar reservoir seen on the Volt and Charge packs and puts them into a low, wide 10L pack and a low profile bum bag (Bum Bak?)

The women’s Solstice 10LR features pad clips

The women’s Solstice features curvy, fleece edged straps.

The Low Rider packs are designed to sit lower on your back, keeping your shoulder blades cooler. The 3L bladder sits lower, over your hips to keep the weight low and the shoulder straps carry hardly any weight while the bag has enough height for a pump and enough space for a jacket and a big sandwich…

Men’s Skyline comes in blues and orange colours

The backpacks feature a tool roll too

New Kudu colours include this that conveniently Cube matching bag

Let’s not call it an enduro bag, but we expect to see lots of these out on the trails for riders out on those short, speedy after work rides. The bag is 4L total, of which there’s a 1.5L reservoir and 2.5L cargo space. There’s a clip-out tool section too. The hose exits the bag out of the side and reaches round to clip over your hip bone.

Orange/coral is pretty popular this year. This is the Palos 4 LR

Tool section deployed

And here’s one we stuffed with things

The hose features the new magnetic Tube Trap which really makes sense in this situation

Camelbak’s Podium bottles have had a full colour facelift

Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)

Comments (3)

hilldodgerhilldodger June 24, 2015 at 8:11 am

“…..we expect to see lots of these out on the trails for riders out on those short, speedy after work rides”
Really? Thought they’d be better off with a bottle and a seat pack – puntertastic stuff

mumblemilermumblemiler June 24, 2015 at 2:47 pm

Not sure I’d want to use a seatpack on a dropper equipped bike. A lot of them want a loop around the post…

Dan KujawskiDan Kujawski June 24, 2015 at 4:01 pm

I’ve taken to using an Alpkit fuel tank bag instead. Hate carrying anything on my back.