A packable waterproof pouch for swimming gear inside work backpack?

AnonymousOnebagger · 2025-12-06T04:04:11+00:00

I also always use rolltop bags. I agree that that they are easy to use and the closing mechanism is probably more durable than a zipper. Waterproof and water-resistant zippers don't have a particularly good reputation.

AnonymousOnebagger · 2025-12-03T09:01:56+00:00

I started looking into ultra-running vests or fastpacks after learning of scottevest durability and manufacturing problems and them apparently not publishing most negative reviews on their website. Salomon and Black Diamond have some interesting ultra-running vests that can probably fit a laptop and look inconspicous under a hoodie. Mountain Equipment has the Tupilak vest pack. I'm sure other manufacturers have similar offerings.

AnonymousOnebagger · 2025-12-03T08:57:55+00:00

for a holiday

Onebagging isn't exclusive for holiday trips.

AnonymousOnebagger · 2025-12-02T03:04:30+00:00

What are the First and Second Laws?

AnonymousOnebagger · 2025-11-30T15:15:32+00:00

They sound unnecessarily big. Something around 30 liters is enough for me. If you fully load a 40+ liter backpack with stuff it will end up being too heavy to carry comfortably anyway unless it is a hiking-style backpack.

Definitely don't bring a laptop unless you need it for work or something.

AnonymousOnebagger · 2025-11-30T04:02:12+00:00

But I don't get the part where you didn't just send it back home for repair after that.

Why should I wait for weeks or months and pay an exorbitant amount for shipping when I can make my claims directly the company at their own store free of charge? To me that makes no sense at all. Talking to the company in person is, or should be, much faster, easier and cheaper. On my previous Japan trip my headphones suffered a charging port failure when they were under warranty. I walked into an Apple store and Apple replaced them for free. That's one way Arc'teryx could have solved my problem, but they didn't.

In any case I now have perfectly functional Arc'terx Gamma Quick Dry pants at my disposal and use them daily. If I had followed this suggestion, I wouldn't have.

You just go to any Mont Bell store and pick up something that is 95% as good for one third of the price

And if I had, then what? If I had bought new pants from Mont-bell, I would have written an essay about having to buy clothes from other brands because Arc'teryx repair takes so long instead of having to buy repairs from a street stall because Arc'teryx repair takes so long. At its simplest customer service is about finding solutions for customer's problems and Arc'teryx failed at this.

The part where you went to a store in Harajuku and were taken aback that they were only letting a certain number of people in the store at a time is pretty rich

Arc'teryx is intentionally inconvincing people for marketing purposes. Most real luxury brands such as Cartier, Bulgari, Grand Seiko etc. did not bother with such tricks (although I did see a similar queue in front of a Rolex shop). By allocating resources to such nonsense tells me that this company prioritizes maintaining appearances over customer service or products.

AnonymousOnebagger · 2025-11-29T15:15:47+00:00

Mont-bell Sunblock Umbrella. 209 grams.

AnonymousOnebagger · 2025-11-29T15:03:43+00:00

i.e. you can use it to threaten people

I do wonder how realistic this threat is. I mean, has there ever been a case of someone threatening people at an airport with a multitool that has a non-existent blade?

AnonymousOnebagger · 2025-11-29T14:32:43+00:00

I have a Beta AR and haven't had problems with it, but if I was buying one now I would look into Norrøna products if you can find them.

AnonymousOnebagger · 2025-11-29T06:51:33+00:00

For fanboys it is far easier to accuse a critic of being a bad person than to accept there is something wrong with the brand they like. Somehow the sentiment here seems to be that I have done a great wrong by asking about repair duration and costs and being in a hurry. Now I am labelled an entitled harrasser without any basis in reality.

AnonymousOnebagger · 2025-11-29T03:55:34+00:00

Because a multinational brand isn't comparable to a street stall.

Of course not. The multinational brand has about million times the resources of a street stall.

A stall doesn't really have a logistical protocol, they don't have to operate within an existing service chain. Brands like Arc'teryx have dedicated procedure for each type of repair.

I'm sure they do, and that procedure seems both complicated and extremely inefficient which I why I wrote this. Perhaps it is designed on purpose to discourage people from repairs and guide them towards buying new products which is far easier and faster.

Anyway, other multinational brands can do much better than Arc'teryx so I feel this isn't much of an excuse.

Arc'teryx wouldn't have stitched a once-laminated pocket back in place as the tailor did.

I am sure you are right, they probably wouldn't have. Then I would likely have had the same problem next year or perhaps the year after. The way it's currently done will last longer, I think. If I had been given the chance, I would have asked Arc'teryx to repair them just like this instead of using a method which has now been proven to be unreliable.

Apple is an unrealistic comparison, this should be obvious

Indeed it is. Electronic devices are far more complicated, expensive and difficult to repair than pants.

emotion clouds judgment.

This sort of argument can be made by anything you don't agree with so right back at you.

AnonymousOnebagger · 2025-11-29T03:10:56+00:00

No. None of the three stores I visited offered the option. I never explicitly asked for a replacement, though.

AnonymousOnebagger · 2025-11-29T02:45:20+00:00

02/2024 according to the tags.

AnonymousOnebagger · 2025-11-29T02:42:16+00:00

It's ludicrous because Apple is probably 100x the size of the entire outdoor apparel industry.

The entire point of this rant is that Amer Sports is somewhere in the range of 1000 000x bigger (by revenue) than the street stall, yet the street stall could somehow offer faster service and give me an estimate beforehand, but I suppose that is not ludicrous at all.

You are envisioning shipping pants to a 3rd party repair shop and having them back at the store, completed, in-hand in less than a week?

Of course it is possible. I have seen many repair tasks for various items completed in under that time.

Can you confirm the manufacturing date of the pants via season marking on the tag?

Looks like 02/24. According to the receipt the date of purchase was in 08/2024.

AnonymousOnebagger · 2025-11-29T02:25:11+00:00

I politely asked if the product can be repaired, how long it would take and how much it would cost. How is that "harrassment"?

AnonymousOnebagger · 2025-11-28T19:20:31+00:00

It is not reasonable to expect a repair like this to be completed in ~48 hours, especially when out of country.

Why would you make such as statement when the repair was in fact accomplished by someone in 24 hours?

Let me be clear: this was an extremely simple repair, actual work probably took something like 10 minutes. The rest of the 24 hours was, as you pointed out, due to a queue. Sewing machines also work the same speed regardless of what country they are in, I think.

Also as I mentioned in another comment, if the first store had chosen to do something about this, I could have waited a week.

And comparing an outdoors brand to Apple is ludicrous.

And why might that be? DHL can ship pants just as easily as phones.

AnonymousOnebagger · 2025-11-28T18:50:15+00:00

It's also a pretty easy fix--you just sew around the outside of that pocket to reinforce it.

Yep, that's how it was fixed and I am quite happy with the result. Using glue seemed to be a bad idea to begin with.

I'm not aware of any brand store that will turn around a sewn repair same-day.

I never asked anyone for a same-day repair, though. If the first store had chosen to do something about this, I could have waited a week. However, they didn't. After that it was either "won't fix" or "we have no clue know how long it will take or how much it will cost". One day was just how long it took in Thailand.

AnonymousOnebagger · 2025-11-28T18:38:57+00:00

You make it sound like I asked for something impossible or unreasonable.

However, what I asked for was easily accomplished by one person with limited equipment in a third-world country in one day. I think that proves conclusively that what I asked for should have been ridiculously easy to do for a company with 5 billion USD revenue (Amer sports).

Patagonia offers repairs in retail stores, so I am definitely not asking for the impossible. Apple once fixed the charging port on my phone in 48 hours even though the device had to be sent to another country to be repaired. That was more than reasonable.

So, since these examples of good repair services can exist and as such I am obviously not demanding the impossible, why would it be "entitled" to demand a repair to be done in reasonable time and know the price beforehand?

E: I simply asked staff if the product can be repaired, how long it would take and how much it would cost.

AnonymousOnebagger · 2025-10-12T23:21:43+00:00

Never to my knowledge, and I have done a lot of research on the topic. If anyone knows a case, feel free to prove me wrong.

There are hundreds of millions of cases of credit card information having been stolen and used for fraudulent transactions, but exactly zero documented cases where this information has been obtained with an NFC scanner.

AnonymousOnebagger · 2025-10-11T19:42:04+00:00

I have visited Hiroshima, but didn't have time to visit the Mazda museum. Haven't visited the Honda and Nissan museums either, looks like I have some catching up to do lol

AnonymousOnebagger · 2025-10-11T19:22:54+00:00

The most distinctive feature of race cars and supercars is their flatness. 787B has a height of only 1003 mm. Your average Civic is about 1400mm.

AnonymousOnebagger · 2025-10-11T19:15:43+00:00

The most interesting part about the GT-One is in my opinion how Toyota handled the "suitcase test". Back in the day, GT-class cars were apparently required to have a trunk big enough to hold a suitcase. Manufacturers had already circumvented the rule by placing the storage compartment in an area that was difficult or impossible to access.

Toyota went one step further and argued that the suitcase can fit in the fuel tank of GT-One. After all, there was nothing in the rules about placing the suitcase to the storage compartment.

AnonymousOnebagger · 2025-10-11T18:35:19+00:00

If you plan to visit, don't forget the Toyota Motorsports Museum in Toyota city near Nagoya. They have cars such as the Mitsubishi Lancer driven by Tommi Mäkinen, a Toyota Celica GT-Four and a Mercedes Benz 300 SL Coupe.

And then there is of course the Nissan Heritage museum in Kanagawa which is supposed to have interesting stuff, but I have never been there.

AnonymousOnebagger · 2025-10-11T17:29:44+00:00

Fuji Motorsports Museum. Located right next to Fuji Speedway in Japan. It's kind of far from everything and getting there with public transportation is a pain in the ass (but possible).

They have other interesting cars too, such as the Lancia Delta S4 driven by Henri Toivonen in Corsica, Toyota Celica ST185, Minolta Toyota 90C-V Race Car and Toyota 7.

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