goruck slippery on a leather jacket?

[JV3]

goruck has a sale going on...anyone use one while riding a motorcycle with leather jacket? since there's no sternum strap do you find that the shoulder straps are slippery and wish it did especially through the twisties?

i sometimes want to carry water during the hotter months (i just hate buying something from the gas station and have to finish it before i can leave) or extra fuel...the mountains i frequent i have no cell signal and i've either had my or a buddy's gas light turn on while exploring new areas and we have to turn back taking the shortest distance instead of the fun way.

the bullet 10 seems to be the perfect bare bones pack for my intended use.

 

[unimogbert]

No experience with them but an idea.
My wife was a big time sewing lady and she found some mesh rubber sticky material like you might use to line the drawer of a toolbox and used it to line the inside of straps that were used to hang a cloth bag from and old person's walker.
This to say that you might find some of that rubbery material and have someone sew it to the inside of the shoulder straps so the straps aren't so slick.

(I prefer to not have anything strapped to my back or waist when I'm riding in case of a get-off. But that's up to you.)

 

[JV3]

No experience with them but an idea.
My wife was a big time sewing lady and she found some mesh rubber sticky material like you might use to line the drawer of a toolbox and used it to line the inside of straps that were used to hang a cloth bag from and old person's walker.
This to say that you might find some of that rubbery material and have someone sew it to the inside of the shoulder straps so the straps aren't so slick.

(I prefer to not have anything strapped to my back or waist when I'm riding in case of a get-off. But that's up to you.)

thanks! it turns out goruck sells a sternum strap - it's located under the accessories page and not in the packs page itself...it really should be part of the options menu so people don't miss it.

you have a good point about not strapping anything on the back. i'm 50/50 on it since i don't think there's any study there whether there's increased risk or not. i guess it could go both ways - it could also serve as an extra spine protection (over the alpine stars hard inserts i have in there already).

i think most accidents are low sides though (the fatal ones the rider would not have survived regardless of what he was/wasn't wearing due to sheer impact force)...my buddy low-sided a few years ago and i did as well about two years ago...both of us only the right shoulder and right pants had abrasion.

 

[STAINLESS90]

You shouldn't run into any slipping problems, Goruck makes them out of 1000D nylon, if anything the bag gets conplaints of being too rough on softer cotton shirts. They really are bombproof bags, I own two and my wife owns one.