
Originally Posted by
pott
Thanks for the write-up!
I'm considering the S22 as my end-all EDC bag. ....
How is it behaving, with the frame-sheet, when you set it to the floor?
Is it relatively easy to make ti stand upright, regardless of how it's packed?
Does it require specific packing?
Or even with tailored packing, does it fall over?
Thanks if you've any insight on this ^_^
@G42 is right, and based on the FAQ from Tom Bihn:
We’d say no, but YMMV; if your Synik has its internal frame, and you pack it right — so that there’s more weight in the main compartment against the back of the bag as opposed to more weight in the front of the bag — it may stand up on its own. The padded bottom of the Synik helps a little bit with this, but not a whole lot.
To make the Synapse or Synik really stand up on its own, we’d have to make the bottom of the bag flat and rigid and quite square-ish; we don’t think it would look or feel like a Synapse/Synik anymore if we did that.
That said, I've noticed that my Synik 22 does tend to stand up on its own most of the time. No guarantees, but given how I pack it, with a stuffed small Snake Charmer in the lower pocket and relatively bottom-heavy contents in the main compartment, it actually seems to be pretty good. If I front-load it too much, that can change, but even with my mug of coffee it still seems to remain standing. I think it might be slightly better than the Synapse 19 I used to have in this regard. But I don't want my personal experience to be interpreted as any kind of promise, since TB didn't design the backpack to do this, and it probably depends on what is inside it.
