Sizable capacity hip pack, plus the optional bottle holder. Made in London, which partly explains the price tag.
So... the critical component of a waist pack (the waist strap) doesn't stay snugged up properly? They should have a look at how Osprey, and others, do it!
I do like a waist pack but fit and stability is crucial ime.
It's £200.
two hundred pounds.
And it's a hip-pack.
Who would buy this?!
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I'm glad stuff like this exists and that people are making things in the UK. Unfortunately my salary isn't keeping track with the cost of UK manufacturing and I'm on a strictly far-east budget for stuff like this. Thank god for Decathlon.
No two ways about it that £200+ for a bum-bag is a lot, but I'd imagine that manufacture is pretty labour intensive. In fact every aspect of small volume production and distribution is expensive. Nice to have the option of buying something locally produced though.
The price would put me off too… given that there are loads of options out there.
This is the problem isn’t it. If I had the skills, tools, premises, raw materials etc to develop and make this bag I’d probably want £200ish to do so. My organisation would charge more as an hourly rate for me than I would guess WW would cost in for the time it would take to make the bag.
We all say we want sustainable stuff made in the UK and not in ‘sweat shops’ but we can’t afford it or won’t pay for it. I remember going into the hand made shoe shop in Machynlleth with my daughter and thinking I will buy her a pair of shoes… until she asked the price and reversed out of the door.
I guess you’d have to really want it to fork out for it and to want it, it would have to be very good. But then if you did buy it, it would last many of us until we are no longer riding… maybe then we would look back and think it wasn’t too expensive.
I have a WW Brompton front bag and it is really nicely made. It didn’t cost that much more than the hip pack but it is a lot bigger so I guess I felt I was getting more for my cash.
I have a WW Brompton front bag and it is really nicely made. It didn’t cost that much more than the hip pack but it is a lot bigger so I guess I felt I was getting more for my cash.
You've answered your own point there with ...
skills, tools, premises, raw materials etc to develop and make this bag
The cost of the fabric and fasteners is probably the most insignificant part of the total price. See also the cost of bike tyres vs. car tyres.
If was was spending that cash on a UK made product, I'd want the full hipster artisan hand roasted version.
https://collinscycleworks.uk/products/hiproll-v4
I have a WW Brompton front bag and it is really nicely made. It didn’t cost that much more than the hip pack but it is a lot bigger so I guess I felt I was getting more for my cash.
but what extra does it do? It carries the correct amount of stuff and attaches to something. I image it would be fairly useless for mtbing just as this hip pack is useless at carrying a laptop and dress shoes to the office.
having extra air inside doesn't make it more valuable, just good at different things.
I have a WW Brompton front bag and it is really nicely made. It didn’t cost that much more than the hip pack but it is a lot bigger so I guess I felt I was getting more for my cash.
but what extra does it do? It carries the correct amount of stuff and attaches to something. I image it would be fairly useless for mtbing just as this hip pack is useless at carrying a laptop and dress shoes to the office.
having extra air inside doesn't make it more valuable, just good at different things.
That is my point. The decisions we make when buying are subjective and not always rational. I felt I was getting more so that helped to justify it… and Brompton bags are more specialist and expensive anyway, I was buying it with money given to me as a gift and so on.
The cost of the fabric and fasteners is probably the most insignificant part of the total price
Definitely. But add that to all the other stuff made without an economy of scale and it’s bound to be expensive when made by a small UK company.
"Made locally" is the main thing here. I'd feel differently about this bag if it was made in Manchester 🙂
I have no problem spending money on decent kit.
I can see no reason whatsoever to spend £200 on this though
The Collins cycle works hip pack are so much better
https://collinscycleworks.uk/products/hiproll-v4
https://ukgravelco.com/2024/03/03/collins-cycle-works-hip-roll-pack-review/