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To be fair, I've had a kanken for 10 years or so, and it's still in great shape, despite lugging around camera stuff in all sorts of places. I can't remember how much it cost me, but even if it was 85, 8.50 a year is good value, when my hiking osprey bags seem to only last a couple of years of abuse.
(It's not a style thing for me, and I'm sure I get laughed at being a man wearing one, it's just a big rectangle that completely opens up and has lots of handles and is great for access of camera stuff).
RonnieOatmilk
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You're doing it wrong 🙂
..yea I wouldn't mind either - alas the point I was trying to make is that their stuff became even more expensive, yet the quality went down.
Like: a lot of times instead of the (very sturdy / worth-the-money) G1000 fabric you now only get G1000 lite which doesn't last nearly as long.
I don't mean to bash on them for the sake of bashing, but to give you a really good example - their Kånken rucksack, a thin little thing that lasts about a year before developing holes and looking like shit, omnipresent on the back of hipsters all over Europe, is fucking £85.00 now.
And it's not made by well paid fairies in Finland but in Vietnam, by the way.