Originally Posted by mspreh

I would avoid the original, the reason it was discontinued was all of the quality problems they had. I have had 2 co-workers that both had them break, one of them it happened twice to the same bag. All of them required shipping the bags to B&R as no local shop could fix them. The shipping from Rome to the Repair Center and the shipping back to her house cost her more than she paid for the bag in one circumstance.

The old one size wise looked ample enough, when I was admiring it before we landed in Rome and it was broken, but I would avoid the potential problems and hope they are all resolved with the new version.