Thule's Rail 0 and Rail 2 hip packs offer options for hauling essential supplies only or more cargo plus water bottles.
Click to email a link to a friend Particularly when temperatures rise, hip packs become a pretty attractive option for hauling your ride essentials. Keeping most of your back uncovered works wonders for keeping you cool, and with options like Thule’s Rail 0 and Rail 2, you can haul just an essential trailside kit or a fair bit of cargo and enough water for a few hours of riding.
The Rail 0’s waist strap is a bit over 2” wide, which isn’t huge but is enough to keep this small pack comfortable. The strap has plenty of stretch to it, and a hook-and-loop panel and waist buckle keep it cinched in. My only minor gripe is that Thule didn’t include a better way to tuck away or bundle the excess waist strap. Luckily I only have about 4-5” of strap left dangling, but if it were any longer I’d give it a trim . One last detail I liked is the bright yellow interior fabric, which makes it easy to see inside the pack.The Rail 2 is a larger hip pack that can haul a fair bit of cargo plus two water bottles.
One or two water bottles can be carried in the pockets on either side of the pack. When empty, the fabric bottle pockets fold down nicely and almost disappear.I’ve ridden the Rail 2 pack for up to three-hour rides, primarily with one bottle but once with two. All in all the Rail 2 is fairly comfortable, and I had no particular issues with any part of it. That said, it’s tough to ignore something cinched around your belly while you ride, especially as you add more weight to the pack.
I’m having 50/50 success getting bottles back into the holders while riding. I’ve had to stop several times because the bottle gets stuck on the inner wall of the flexible pocket and won’t slip in. Now with more practice getting bottles back in might get easier, but initially, the soft-sided pockets were an issue for me.
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