Apidura Backcountry Top Tube Pack vs Apidura Racing Top Tube Pack

Two top tube bags, measured against each other on the figures that decide whether they work on a bike.

The short answer

The Apidura Backcountry Top Tube Pack is ahead on capacity, price and value per litre. Nothing measured here goes the other way. The biggest single gap is $93.00 per litre between them.

Assembled from the differences below rather than written over them. Every figure is a published measurement or computed from one — nobody here has used either one.

Where they differ

3 of the 4 things we can measure come out differently.

Capacity

0.5L more in the Backcountry Top Tube Pack
Apidura Backcountry Top Tube Pack
1L
Apidura Racing Top Tube Pack
0.5L

The maker's own figure. Worth reading alongside the dimensions below rather than on its own — two bags of the same litreage can want very different frames.

Price

$19 between them
Apidura Backcountry Top Tube Pack
$55
Apidura Racing Top Tube Pack
$74

Manufacturer's price as we hold it.

Per litre

$93.00 per litre between them
Apidura Backcountry Top Tube Pack
$55.00
Apidura Racing Top Tube Pack
$148.00

Price divided by the maker's capacity. A crude measure that still catches the case where the dearer bag is also the bigger one, which the price alone hides.

Side by side

Including the rows where they are level.

Apidura Backcountry Top Tube PackApidura Racing Top Tube Pack
Capacity1L0.5L
Weight65g75g
Price$55$74
Per litre$55.00$148.00
Apidura
Backcountry Top Tube Pack
$55 · 65g

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Apidura
Racing Top Tube Pack
$74 · 75g

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