How we check this data

This site's only real claim is that you can ask where a number came from and get an answer. That is worth setting out properly, including the parts that do not flatter us.

Where a figure has to come from

There is an order, and it is strict. The manufacturer's own published page beats a retailer listing, and a retailer beats an aggregator. An explicit “not published” from the maker beats all three, because it is the only one of the four that is certainly true.

A figure marked verified on a product page means something narrow and specific: somebody opened the page named in the citation, on the date shown, and read that number off it. It does not mean we think the number is plausible, and it does not mean we found it repeated somewhere. Right now 143 of 237 products carry one — 112 with a checked price, 70 with a checked weight. The rest say so on their own pages rather than letting silence imply otherwise.

Why blanks stay blank

When a manufacturer does not publish a figure, we store nothing and the page shows a dash. We do not estimate, interpolate from a similar model, or convert a number out of another unit and present it as the maker's.

This costs us. Of the 43 shelters here, 17 publish a folded pole length — the measurement that decides whether a tent fits your handlebars. For 12 more we infer it from the packed bag's long dimension, and every surface that quotes those says inferred, in the text and in the drawing. 14 are trekking-pole shelters with no pole set to carry at all. We would rather tell you the number is ours than let you think it is theirs.

The same rule governs the filters. A finder that quietly drops what it cannot measure turns “we could not check these” into “these are not options”. Every finder here reports how many items it excluded for missing data.

What we hold, and where it came from

• 83 frames with published geometry — 451 individual sizes. 77 are read from the manufacturer's own chart; the rest come from a retailer listing and say so on the page, because retailer specs can lag a model year.
• 237 products, of which 3 are marked discontinued and carry no buy button — they stay because gear stays in circulation second-hand and the specs still help you judge one.
• 43 shelters with inner dimensions, packed size, weights and pole length where it exists.
• 66 bags with measured dimensions, which is what makes frame-triangle fit computable at all.
• 17 frames are no longer in their maker's line-up and are labelled that way rather than quietly left to look current.

The gate

Nothing publishes until it passes an automated gate — twenty-nine checks. They cover the obvious things, and some less obvious ones that exist because the failure they catch has already happened here: a figure in a sentence disagreeing with the record it describes, a superlative that stopped being true, a generated post whose numbers drifted from the data underneath it, a buy button pointing at a page that no longer exists, and our own diagrams no longer matching the measurements they were drawn from.

Every one of those checks has been deliberately broken to prove it catches what it claims to. A check nobody has watched fail is not a check.

What we do not do

We do not field-test. We have not ridden most of what is here and we do not pretend to have — see about us for what our reviewer has actually ridden. We publish no star ratings, because a site that does not test has no standing to score anything. We use no product photography, because no manufacturer grants a clean licence for it; the drawings on these pages are generated from the measurements instead, which is why they are all at the same scale and can be compared with each other.

What we got wrong

A correction policy nobody can see is a promise, not a practice. These are the corrections from an audit run between 22 and 24 August 2026, each checked against the manufacturer's own page.

Products that were not what we said

• We listed a Tailfin “Alloy Seat Pack” at 20L, 520g and $225. Tailfin have never sold that. The product is the CargoPack — 18L, 1,129g, from $420.
• We listed a Fix It Sticks “Replaceable Edition Torque Limiter”. No such product exists; at Fix It Sticks, “Replaceable Edition” is a tire lever. The tool we were describing is their Multi-Tool - Cycling.
• The Ortlieb Cockpit-Pack, Rapha Explore Cargo Bib Shorts and 7mesh Oro are all discontinued. They are labelled that way now instead of reading as current.
• An Apidura Backcountry Handlebar Pack was listed at 20L. Apidura sell 7L and 11L.

Figures that were nobody's

• The MSR Hubba Hubba Bikepack 2P showed 1,200g. MSR publish a 1,400g minimum weight and a 1,710g packed weight. We were understating what a rider carries by 200g.
• Gossamer Gear's The One showed 590g and Hilleberg's Enan 1,100g. Both sat neatly between the two weights their makers publish, which is the signature of a number nobody read off anything. Now 558g and 960g.
• The Otso Waheela C claimed up to six bottle positions. Otso describe “extra down tube mounting points (six total)” — six bolt holes, which is two cages. They publish no bottle count, so neither do we now.
• Four Apidura records described a product range Apidura have moved on from, and every price was understated — one by $57.

Things we said about ourselves

• We placed Rockgeist in Portland; they are in Asheville, North Carolina. Sweeping for the same mistake found a second: Swift Industries described as making bags in Portland, when they are a Seattle brand who do not publish where their bags are sewn.
• An article reported that one brand “manages 1 of 7” for fork mounts. Eight of the nine frames we hold from that brand publish nothing at all about the fork. We had read silence as absence, which is the one thing this site says it does not do. Every mount table now carries a column for what a maker does not say.

If you find something wrong

Tell us and we will check it against the maker and fix it, or explain why we read it the way we did. A figure here that you can disprove is more useful to us than one you cannot check.