PRODUCT REVIEW
OGIO RIG 9800
Bagged and tagged.
Words & Photos: Mathieu Day-Gillet
I
t doesn’t matter what bike you ride, at some
point in your riding life you’ll find a need to
chuck all your riding gear into a bag and head
off in search of adventure or pack a family’s
worth of kit for your next escape.
In KR’s line of work, this is a common occurrence
and as such, we value a decent gear bag capable
of doing the hard yards as we make our way
across NZ and beyond testing bikes for Kiwi Rider.
So, with the call up to the big leagues with KR,
I needed to get myself a decent bag to cart my
kit about in. KR’s publisher Vege organised the
very stylish Ogio Rig 9800 for me through Kiwi
distributor Northern Accessories, which
produces the Dirt Guide and Road Guide.
While I’ve previously gotten by with department
store luggage, it never truly did a good job of
carting my bike gear from place to place. The
biggest problem with that department store
stuff was the shape of the bag, which didn’t
translate well into cramming in a pair of boots,
helmet and riding suit along with enough
changes of undies to not feel... umm... gross.
Things get even more interesting if you want to
separate said undies from the rest of your kit
once they get “the waft”.
Moving to the Ogio felt like I’d all of a sudden
moved from a Fiat 500 to a Ford Ranger, there’s
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