IN BRIEF
Redshift Sports is launching the Quickdraw, a saddle bag that swaps the buckled strap for a magnet. The strap stays in place on the saddle rails and the bag pulls off it with a single hand, without letting go of the bike with the other. It comes in two sizes at the same price of €74.99: a 0.48-litre version for road and narrow-tyre gravel, and a 0.66-litre one for mountain biking and wide-tyre gravel, quoted at 106 and 114 grams respectively. According to the official spec sheet, the strap attaches to the saddle rails alone and never clamps around the seatpost, which makes the bag compatible with dropper and suspension seatposts. An extra strap, sold separately, lets the same bag move from one bike to another.
| Model | Redshift Sports Quickdraw |
| Price | €74.99, the same in both sizes |
| Sizes | Small (road and narrow-tyre gravel), Medium (mountain biking and wide-tyre gravel) |
| Volume | 0.48 litre and 0.66 litre |
| Internal dimensions | 120 × 80 × 50 mm and 120 × 80 × 65 mm |
| Weight | 106 g in Small, 114 g in Medium |
| Mounting | Single strap on the saddle rails and magnetic interface |
| Seatposts | Compatible with dropper and suspension posts, according to Redshift |
| Saddle compatibility | Round 7 mm rails; not oval rails, and presumably not carbon rails, according to Redshift |
| Layout | Neoprene pocket for the multi-tool |
| Part numbers | RS-23-01 (Small) and RS-23-02 (Medium) |
Pulling an inner tube out of a saddle bag is a two-handed job, bike stopped and often lying on its side. Redshift Sports proposes doing without: its new Quickdraw comes off its mount in a single movement, thanks to a magnet, with the strap staying attached to the saddle rails. It is offered at €74.99 in two sizes.
The Redshift Quickdraw replaces the buckle with a magnet
The principle fits in one sentence, which the brand puts like this: according to its product page, the strap stays fixed to the saddle rails while the magnetic interface allows the bag to be removed with one hand. Redshift highlights the use case that goes with it — keeping the other hand on the bike, and getting to your kit without untangling several straps or opening a fiddly closure. On paper, the benefit shows up mostly during an emergency stop, when you are hunting for a tyre lever in the rain.
That choice has a useful side effect for mountain biking: since the strap never wraps around the seat tube, the bag follows the saddle and gets in the way of neither the travel nor the operation of a dropper post, Redshift writes. The brand lists it as compatible with dropper posts as well as suspension posts.
Redshift does, however, set out a limitation that needs checking before ordering, and it concerns the saddle rather than the post: according to its spec sheet, the Quickdraw fits almost every saddle with round 7 mm rails, meaning the vast majority of saddles with steel, titanium or hollow steel rails, but it is not compatible with oval rails, and therefore probably not with carbon rails. The brand has opened a waiting list for a version compatible with 7 × 9 mm carbon rails.
The inside gets a neoprene pocket dedicated to the multi-tool, which keeps it separate from the rest of the contents. According to the product page, Redshift also gives loading examples for each size: for the small one, a 700 × 43 TPU tube, an electric pump, a multi-tool, tyre levers and a bit driver; for the large one, a 29 × 2.4 TPU tube, a multi-tool, two CO2 cartridges and compact tyre levers.
Two sizes, one price, and one strap per bike
The two versions share the same footprint — 120 mm long by 80 mm wide on the inside — and differ in dimensions only in height: 50 mm for the Small, 65 mm for the Medium, that is 0.48 and 0.66 litre. The brand’s official comparison quotes 106 grams for the former and 114 for the latter. Both are sold at the same price of €74.99, under part numbers RS-23-01 and RS-23-02.
The system has a practical consequence that Redshift owns and turns into a selling point: since the strap stays on the saddle, you need one per bike. The brand therefore sells extra straps individually, at €24.99 and in the size of your bag, presented as the way to move the same bag between a gravel bike, a road bike, a mountain bike and a city bike. Redshift states that the bags ship immediately, but that these straps go out separately in October, late October for Europe. A good idea for anyone who owns several machines, an extra third of the price of the bag for everyone else.
