Port Authority Side Pocket Wheeled Handy Backpack. BG76S

I ordered this for my 5th grader for school. It is a great quality product. Very sturdy, well made, and lots of room inside and outside pockets. It wheels very smoothly, and has a lot of padding in back of backpack and padded straps for optional backpack use. Very pleased with purchase.

I would not recommend this product for anyone who needs to walk on a sidewalk with it. The wheels are terrible and cannot tolerate anything but an extremely smooth surface. I live in the city and walk 3 blocks to the train station. This involves walking on a sidewalk, one of which is cobblestone. After only 3 trips, the flimsy wheels turned inward and now the backback drags instead of rolls. It's such an arm workout to try to "roll" it with stuck wheels that I won't use it anymore. It was a total waste of $26. I guess you get what you pay for.

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I bought this backpack for my 9 yr old for school. I love it. It is very durable and has many compartments yet very sleek! The quality of the material is very strong and sturdy. The only thing I wish is it having an adjustable height handle since he is not that tall when the arm is fully extended. I will just have to drill a hole in it myself to make the handle snnap shorter.

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I had great hopes for this backpack. My fourth grader's Land's End monogramed backpack fell apart after five months and he needed something fast. We saw this on amazon.com and liked it. It was bigger. Seemed sturdy and looked good. And it was great, until the wheel housing fell out of the backpack. The reason this gets one star is, he was able to tuck the wheel back up into the pack and can use it temporarily. Because we know it's only a matter of time before the wheel won't tuck back in. The wheels are pockmarked as well, so not a lot of hope in them lasting. Very disappointing because we'll have to buy yet another backpack and we have no trust whatever we get will make it to June.

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I bought 2 of these for my 11 year old girls in January 2012. I got the pink one and the red one. Initial appearance of them was favorable. They liked the look of them and were happy with the number of pockets it has. The one feature I was particularly pleased with was the pull out cover for the wheels/bottom so that if used as a backpack instead of a roller it won't get their backs dirty. One thing I found useful to do was to tuck the shoulder straps into the pocket at the back / top so that they don't drag when being rolled. The one complaint I have about this however is that the bottom of the strap is not removable via a clip like others have. This means that the the strap length must be stretched longer in order to fit flat in the pocket ever time it is stored. If they needed to switch from roller to backpack often this could become annoying to have to adjust the strap length each time.

I hope the product will last as long as other backpacks they have used (or hopefully longer since it is more expensive than their usual one). I will update this once they start showing some sign of end of their usable life. Hopefully they continue to follow my request to always zip the zippers before carrying it by the handle, and also pull the straps to compress the thickness according to the contents, which should help prevent weight shifts when being rolled around and should help reduce stress on the backpack.