Good thing I don't have to decide on a backpack for the next ~20 years. That is, it's showing no significant wear over the past decade and I'm using it less and less, so it should work for at least another decade.
And if it doesn't, I'll simply go and find the same backpack since it holds up for at least a decade. It may not be stylish, contain
exactly the right pockets nor have any cool features, but it's a good apparatus to carry things on your back.
keithl wrote:Why are most backpacks black? I would like someting very much like my ancient Targus (durable, lots of pockets, black

) in yellow or orange with wide scotchlite strips. I walk outside at night, and I want to outshine a driver's dodopaddle (er, "smartphone") screen. Yes, I have a fireman-yellow jacket and scotchlite ankle straps and a bike blinker in the back mesh pocket, but idiots racing up from behind are worrisome.
Black works well across nearly all clothing, stains are less noticeable and it stays roughly the same colour after years of wear and exposure.
Where I walk/run outside at night, there is hardly any traffic (and I guess fewer idiots looking at their smartphones while driving).

I don't even dress myself to be more reflective. And of course, it being the Netherlands, any road that's mildly traveled has lamp posts everywhere.