What old piece of gear do you need to replace but are refusing to?Mine is my Rab Xenon-X Jacket I've had since 2018. >Primaloft Gold>336g>Fits like it was tailored just for me>Looks OK for daily wear too without looking like some gorpcore poserI love that thing and no other jacket feels quite like it but it's losing its insulation properties and the elastic has gone in sleeves. I haven't found another jacket that comes close to it.
My REI jacket I bought second hand off eBay years ago. Poor things been patched with geko tape in more than one spot.
my tent has holes in it from a bad hail storm I got caught in, but it doesn't rain much where I live so it's no big deal
>>2790838My pack. It’s an Osprey Exos from 2014, I think. It’s the second iteration of the Exos model. Silicone from the fabric is delaminating, I’m guessing because I use it in a very high humidity environment (Deep South), but who knows. Osprey struck the perfect balance of weight, comfort, and usability with that model. Generally I find their packs either too heavy or too feature-rich (just a bunch of extra crap that I don’t need or want). Other manufacturers are lacking on comfort or are really expensive, or have some other fatal flaw about them.The Gregory Focal looks pretty good; it’s basically an Exos but without the trekking pole loop (which I use constantly). Zpacks Arc Haul is $400.
>I love this jacket that lasted 5 years>heh, that sure is an old jacket, isn’t it>AMAZING quality!>why yes, I do prefer my clothing disposable
>>2791029I have a 34 litre Osprey pack from around 2015 and it's got years of life left in it yet. That things been to hell and back and you'd never know to look at it.>>2791033I see what you're saying but it's not like it's used only for every day light use. It sees mostly hard, back-country use in all sorts of sustained, exposed conditions year-round. It gets screwed up for extended periods in my pack, used as a pillow and everything in between. To look at it it's in great shape, it's performance is beginning to falter, as you'd expect from something you routinely kick the shit out of.
>>2790838Do they still make this? If not what was it replaced with?
>>2791041No it was discontinued for reasons which elude me. They currently don't offer anything quite like this jacket at the moment. There's things that are sort of similar to it but I don't like any of them.
>>2790838A six year old Revit Sand jacket that I had a fairly bad crash in on pavement.It's no longer waterproof, won't offer much in the way of protection as the parts that hit the ground are the ones that are abraded, and it looks like it was crashed in.No real reason I've kept using it besides sheer stupidity.
>>2790838Various backpacks>cheap 2-compartment school backpackStill use it for the gym, the zippers are all fucked and the seams are coming apart but it still holds clothes and towels, and I don't want to stink up any of my other backpacks with sweaty clothes.>Deuter Gigant from 2015Same story as the no-name one, was my daily pack throughout uni and several years of working, commuting by motorbike and bicycle.>Särmä large assault packOnly 2 years old but I recently dumped the motorbike and slid on my back so now the front pocket has a hole and the front strap is 90% to being ripped through. I should get around to patching and stitching those, respectively, then it'll be good for another few years.For longer bicycle rides, I still use my granddad's old touring bicycle. It's light, supremely comfy, ugly enough that nobody will steal it, and has basically no rolling resistance.But the gear shifter and rear sprocket are mismatched (7 vs 6 gears, there were supply issues during the lockdowns) so shifting is a pain, and the taillight and its wiring should have been replaced 30 years ago.>>2792172I made the silly mistake of replacing my loose-fitting textiles with tighter-fitting ones a few years ago, only to find out that I wasn't able to layer up for winter riding. So I kept using the old pair of Rev'it pants>bought them in 2015>crashed into the side of a truck merging onto the Autobahn that same year>patches everywhere>not a single pocket without a hole>velcro basically worn outThe only redeeming qualities are that they're comfy, the protectors come out easier than on all other gear I've owned, they have two separate liners for wind/rain protection and thermal insulation, and they're loose enough to wear long johns and sweat pants underneath.I did buy a new loose pair the other week, but they only have a single combined liner and the zipper doesn't match the jacket's.
