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★★★★☆
Great chair with 1 major design flaw.
This chair fills the hole in the market for those who want a very portable, lightweight, comfortable, convenient-to-set-up, rugged chair, but unfortunately has a serious design flaw (which I will fix). I have a regular, large camp chair with a cup holder, 4 can cooler, and pockets. Also a couple small tripod stools, and the slingback fabric roll chair from Mountainsmith. I almost purchased a Helinox (or similar), but didn't like the extra step of attaching the fabric, as easy as it may be. I wanted a single chair made with quality materials and as simple as possible to get set up. The Cliq is that chair. Pockets are often sacrificed on small chairs and I was happy to find the Cliq had pockets as well, hence the purchase. The pocket is the design flaw. The pocket is made as a pass through from one side to the other in an almost funnel shape - large at the tops and narrows as it passes under the seat. The somewhat stretchy fabric gets taught against your rear end when you sit down, there is little-to-no give (I am 170lbs). You have 2 layers of fabric under you, with the possibility of your stowed goods being sat on. Say you take a seat, put your phone or sunglasses in the pocket, get up, and when you sit back down, your items will have slid to the bottom of pocket and is now between the 2 layers of fabric. Maybe a phone could survive, but sunglasses wouldn't. For a chair this size, I am not expecting to hold a water bottle, or multiple cans - just small items normally found in pockets, and I'd like them not to all slide under the seat every time I get up. Why they did not sew the pockets closed about mid-way down the sides is beyond me. I plan to have mine sewn (or velcro'd) on each side to effectively stop any items from passing through to the bottom of the pocket. It may not look factory original, but will certainly be more useful.
August 2020 · Sports and Outdoors · verified purchase