You are not looking for a smaller bag. You want to get to work carrying a laptop, a bottle and a change of shirt, and arrive without a wet stripe down your back. A backpack cannot do that, and it is not because you are riding too hard. It is where the bag sits. Here are five reasons riders are moving it off their back.
TLDR: a backpack is a panel and two straps, and the panel sits flat against your whole upper back for the entire ride. A TØTE crosses your chest, so the only thing touching you is one strap and your back stays open to the air. Same day in the bag, no damp shirt at the end of it.
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A backpack is a panel and two straps, and the panel is the problem. It sits flat against the whole of your upper back and stays there for the entire ride. No gap, so no airflow, and the heat has nowhere to go. A TØTE crosses your chest instead. The only thing touching you is one strap on one shoulder, and your back is open to the air the whole way.
The stripe down your back is not the effort. It is the one part of you that could not cool down. Everywhere else the ride is a headwind. Under a backpack panel it is a closed box, and your shirt is inside it for the whole 15 to 40 minutes. Move the bag off your back and that patch is gone, on the same ride, at the same speed.
Perfect for cycling to work. No more sweaty back and it doesn't move around.
A shoulder tote slides off the moment you push down, so you end up riding one-handed holding it on. A backpack stays, and bounces. A TØTE sits diagonally across your body with the weight low and close, so it holds through a sprint off the lights, a hard brake and a lean into a turn. Nothing to reposition, both hands on the bars.
Everything in a backpack is behind you. A card, a key or a phone at a red light means stopping, swinging it round and digging. A TØTE is already in front of you, with a laptop compartment and an accessory pocket where your hands already are.
The reason people keep the backpack is capacity, and it is a fair worry. The TØTE Bag takes a laptop in its own compartment, an accessory pocket for the small things, and the rest of a working day around them, in premium cotton at €35. One bag from the flat to the office to the gym, without switching.
The only question left is whether it works on your ride, with your laptop, in your weather. That is fair, and it is not a question a page can answer. So do this: order it, ride it to work every day for a month, and if you are still arriving with a damp back, send it back. Free and easy, and 12,400+ riders have rated ours 4.8 out of 5.
Premium cotton, worn across your body, with a laptop compartment and an accessory pocket. The bag that never touches your back.
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No more sweaty back in the summer. That alone was worth it.
I cycle to work every day and this is the first bag that just stays where I put it.
I did not expect to notice the difference this much on a short ride. I do.
Fits my laptop, my lunch and my gym kit and still looks fine in the office.
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