Review: KORI Coyote when motorcycling.

Review from Andreas Jungerup, an experienced motorcyclist:

I drive my motorcycle quite a lot, 90 km to work and back every day and when there is time and weather I drive even more than that. Right now I drive a Yamaha XVS 650 dragstar but I have also driven a sport touring bike and I like to test drive different motorcycle styles. I have used KORI every day to work, so the back protection has been frequently used :-).

I've tried a few different back protector with different types of uses and design (cross, biker, race, etc.). The KORI back protector is brilliant, however, perhaps the height of it could be shortened to make it more comfortable with slim jackets as the protection takes up too much space.

The plus side with KORI is that it's has a very wide kidney / waist belt which provides a comfortable support and does not slide around like others do. Especially not when I drove and moved around on the bike too loosen up during a long ride.

The straps across the chest is also positive, the protection fits better and feels more secure.

The weight is not a problem, it feels light both when driving and when taking a walk.

As a back protector that can be folded into a backpack I think it's a very good idea, for example, when I went with a motorcycle cortege that ended with a walk in a park, a few concerts and some food. In that situation it was perfect to drive with the KORI protection and then be able to have the clothes in the backpack when I walked around.

In my everyday driving, going to work and back, I usually drive with a backpack and it gets a bit too much on the back with both KORI inside your jacket and another backpack outside. If you would have a topbox to put the other stuff in, so you do not need to have the extra backpack, it would work much better.

With KORI Coyote motorcycling in the summer is great!

After a nice motorcycle ride I am all packed and ready for a day the beach!

Sunshine and blue skies - its is a wonderful summerday! Perfect for a motorcycle trip with destination: the beach. By taking the motorcycle we'll have a nice ride to the beach, easier parking when we arrive to the beach and it simply gives us an overall summery experience for a perfect summer day!

Before the KORI back protector existed, "taking the motorcycle to the beach" meant something cumbersome and warm. To be fully covered with protective equipment in sunny summer heat was hardly something you longed for... to keep track of all the equipment and also keeping sand out was just hopeless ... AND this was often a sufficient arguments to select either motorcycle ride or taking the car to "a day at the beach".

Today, we do not give these troublesome thoughts any space, we do not need to choose between a motorcycle trip or going to the beach by car, we just get on the bike and ride away! 

Swimsuite is on, KORI and the rest of the safety equipment is on and a "day at beach" - here we come!

Just arrived with the motorcycle, all motorcycle equipment is on...sun is shining and it is hot... ... ...

In an instant, all equipment is off - back protector is transformed to a backpack and now filled with all equipment!

And - just like that. I am ready to go to the beach! Like to join :-)?

KORI Coyote - what is the difference?

Backpack with back protector or back protector with backpack? Yes, I use the same words but turn them the other way around.. that is the biggest difference...though there are more.

The unique function with KORI Coyote is that you have your back protector and if you need, you can transform it into a backpack, there is no other product that is compared with that. 

Though, after folding out the backpack you suddenly have several product that can be compared to the KORI Coyote, to name some of them:

Boblbee - also a Swedish brand with a high-class hard-shell backpack that also is certified as a back protector. As it is a hard-shell backpack it is perfect to store your camera-equipment, your computers or other things that. 

Compared to KORI Coyote - Boblbee is a hard-shell backpack, with a given size, can be slightly larger but not smaller and thinner, it is always a backpack..

EVOC Freeride - a german company with a line of bike and snow backpacks with integrated back protector. They have several different models of the backpacks with different specialized features. The backpack can be taken of with a zipper if you like to use the back protector separately without the backpack. The packs are given a certain volume often around 16-20L. Another brand with similar backpacks as EVOC is Ortovox. 

Compared to KORI Coyote - EVOC has a range of small size backpacks with integrated back protectors. If you like to use them only as a back protector you take of the backpack and leave it at home.

So compared as a backpack the biggest difference is the flexibility in volume. KORI can be totally flat as a back protector or large as a hiking pack - and everything there in-between! 

illustrating the flexibility as the backpack adapts to its content

If you only have you water-system in the pack there is no need to have it larger than the volume of the water. If you on the other hand need to pack a jacket, an extra set of changing of things, your helmet or likely, you have the possibility form the pack so that it fits the content. In short words. Instead of being a fixed product - KORI Coyote adapts to your needs, and not the overall needs, instead the need you have right here right now 

- that is simply what makes the KORI Coyote back protector backpack unique..

KORI Made in Sweden

June 6, Sweden's national day. We celebrate this day with a one-week offer on KORI Coyote and today, to honor the day, we wish to once again draw attention to our manufacturing and production in Sweden.

It all started when we needed a factory for the development of the concept, moving from one home sewn prototype to a production-ready-product. The closer to the final product we arrived we realized how many factors that play in to get an accurate delivery in the end. Since we had a great relationship, effective communication, and above all we shared the understanding of quality, we felt that there was no reason to look further afield to produce our products. We wanted a stable quality- and delivery control - and we got it!

We have a recent example of the tragedy in Bangladesh, we constantly hear about disasters in both India and China, and we constantly see examples of unfair treatment of factory workers. Today, with the manufacturing culture that exists around the world, we would not be able to stand for the same safe and honest emotion that our products convey. Today, we feel that it is natural for us to retain production in Sweden. We are presently working together with three factories and we want to pay them all a big thank you for a fantastic collaboration, it is with great joy and pride.

Above is a movie from the first set of KORI Coyote, our back protector / backpack, filmed at Moberg Factory amid the forests of "Småland".

Photo: Fia Jobs

And the first name is...

The winner of the KORI Coyote (worth 3250kr) is: Petra Holmlund. Congratulations!!

http://www.kori.se/sv/produkter/kori-coyote/ 

KORI Coyote for clean water, health and freedom!

Congratulations to Victoria Wagman who put in the highest bid on music-aid (musikhjälpen) auction” and is now waiting for her own Kori Coyote - an exclusive unique back protector!

Victoria has shown to be the girl who runs the swedish blog mcflickan.se - a blog about taking the license, driving motorcycles and taking care of your motorcycle from a female beginner's perspective. Victoria is also studying for math teacher in Gothenburg and will be in the Chalmers team in an international engineering competition for 2013! Victoria drives a street-bike, both in Sweden and when travelling in Europé and all autumn she has been looking for a back protector that fits her without finding the right one, last night she got a call about the campaign with the auktion for Music-aid and she struck! Read her own story on her blog!

We also want to give a big thank you to others who were in the bidding! The entire sum will go to Music-aid (Musikhjälpen) which this year supports the fight to children in slums have access to clean water. More than one child dies every minute due to dirty water, lack of toilets and poor knowledge of hygiene.

We hope that this contribution will help the children in the slums to experience good health and perhaps we might be able to contribute to a change in which clean water can create fun, freedom and adventure in their everyday life. 

The sum landed on 1775swedish kronor (SEK) that will really make a difference:

- 50 SEK to five families have access to the toilet for a whole year or clean water to over 5,000 people.

-  100 SEK is enough for about 150 bags rehydration solution that can save children's lives.

- 200 SEK enough materials to build 25-meter pipe.

Picture from http://sverigesradio.se/sida/gruppsida.aspx?programid=3946&artikel=5294565&grupp=18501

Savior...

On a Thursday afternoon in late May 2010. After the late notification of defection from a sewing industry in Mjölby, we contacted Veronica Broman on Moberg's Factory for a request to save us out of the situation and develop our first prototype.

The day after we met at the factory in Anderstorp, Smaland.
Barely two weeks later, we got to see this first test.

Many thanks to Veronica and Moberg for saving us from that situation.