Like oil-burning lanterns and flannel-lined sleeping bags, the external frame backpack was an iconic piece of backpacking gear that most of us were happy to leave behind. After all, a traditional ...

When I first started getting into backpacking, around a decade ago, virtually all serious backpacks were external frame. Now it seems to be harder and harder to find good external frame packs. What ...

Bike frames are as varied as the imaginations of our industry’s many, many product managers. Why, then, aren’t there more options for frame bags? For the most part, they tend to come from a few small ...