NEW Matador Line | Matador ReFraction Packable Backpack Review (2 Weeks of Use)

To Matador. You should be paying her to do your videos! How can you not even show a good video in your website??? The video cannot even handle playing a video! To show how to pack this packable backpack! Load page time is very slow.

The On Grid has two water bottle pockets...

No laptop compartment? What a missed opportunity

I got one of these and it was shockingly small. It's nice enough but I gave it to a friend after using it on a trip. It was just too small. Ended up with a rennen ripstop, not as packable but the 22l is more usable for me than this 16l bag. I think the bag is more like 14l but they are counting the max stretch of the water bottle pockets too.

This or the go pack from aer? 🙃

How is the comfort compared to the Beast18? Deciding between ReFraction and the Beast and so I'm trying to see if it's worth the price difference!

Nice pack and nice review 😊

I was taking a look at this last night. Perfect timing!

Thanks for the review! I saw this on the site and was confused because I hadn't seen any reviews anywhere. I hadn't realized this was JUST released.

Right now I say I will still use the OnGrid-Backpack over the ReFraction due to some design choices:
- A dedicated laptop sleeve inside the main compartment in a packable backpack is unique; a shame that they cut it in their new iteration (it's also a good place to put some cushion plates for for the back panel)
- The secondary compartment has a zippered 'security' pocket where for me I can put stuff like a wallet or keys
- The grab handle was better designed

That being said the ReFraction looks good as the successful follow-up and for me I like it more than one of my other backpacks, the Bellroy Lite Daypack.

Great review as always!

Packhacker's insistence on never mentioning the weight of bags really hurts video reviews of products like these. It's an important factor for a lot of people (and just generally interesting to know imo), I hope you'll reconsider including it in the video review (even in the opening sequence as text).

Wow! This is cool! Did you get a special early release look at these bags? I hadn't even heard of these until this video came out.