Apidura Racing Top Tube Pack vs Revelate Designs Gas Tank Top Tube Bag

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

The short answer

The Racing Top Tube Pack takes weight; the Gas Tank Top Tube Bag takes capacity, price and value per litre. The biggest single gap is $98.00 per litre between them. Which of those you care about depends on the frame you are fitting it to.

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

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

Capacity

0.5L more in the Gas Tank Top Tube Bag
Apidura Racing Top Tube Pack
0.5L
Revelate Designs Gas Tank Top Tube Bag
1L

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.

Weight

24g lighter on the Racing Top Tube Pack
Apidura Racing Top Tube Pack
75g
Revelate Designs Gas Tank Top Tube Bag
99g

Empty weight as published. Worth holding against capacity rather than alone — the lighter bag is not the better one if it carries a third less.

Price

$24 between them
Apidura Racing Top Tube Pack
$74
Revelate Designs Gas Tank Top Tube Bag
$50

Manufacturer's price as we hold it.

Per litre

$98.00 per litre between them
Apidura Racing Top Tube Pack
$148.00
Revelate Designs Gas Tank Top Tube Bag
$50.00

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 Racing Top Tube PackRevelate Designs Gas Tank Top Tube Bag
Capacity0.5L1L
Weight75g99g
Price$74$50
Per litre$148.00$50.00
Apidura
Racing Top Tube Pack
$74 · 75g

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Revelate Designs
Gas Tank Top Tube Bag
$50 · 99g

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