Post by trinity on Oct 3, 2020 12:18:05 GMT -8
That's a bummer, biffnix . That exact same thing happened to me with my first BeFree, about 3 years ago. At the time there were many reports of that weld failing, and the issue was supposedly fixed. I've had my current BeFree for a little over 2 years, and the bag is going strong. But I have also gotten in the habit of carrying a backup bag, in my case a Hydropak Seeker. Those CNOC bags look really nice, I may wind up picking one up.
The long and short of it is that any system can fail. I just returned from a 6 day trip, one person brought a pump (I think it was a miniworks), which failed, one person brought an MSR trailshot, which was extremely slow, and another brought a Sawyer Mini, which worked okay, but was also on the slow side. I wound up using my BeFree to filter most of the drinking water for the whole party during the second half of the trip.
The long and short of it is that any system can fail. I just returned from a 6 day trip, one person brought a pump (I think it was a miniworks), which failed, one person brought an MSR trailshot, which was extremely slow, and another brought a Sawyer Mini, which worked okay, but was also on the slow side. I wound up using my BeFree to filter most of the drinking water for the whole party during the second half of the trip.