For some context up front, depending on the day I either drive my car, take the bicycle, or am away on work trips, often several days on end. I'll mention this here to help the following weirdness make some more sense.
The EDC Messenger bag
On the occasions I'm taking the car to work, into town etc. I bring this one with me. It's a Crumpler "The Sophisticator" messenger from 2006. It's by far the stoutest messenger bag I've ever laid my hands on. It's almost silly how sturdy it is, which is a good thing.
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In the bag are things I realistically feel like I would need day-to-day, without any unused "nice-to-have" clutter. A lot of which I stripped out when weight-optimizing it. I pulled nearly 800gr of mostly pointless stuff out of the pile I started with.
What's in that small bag down to the right? Dryer lint.
The Megalopolis
No, really, the backpack is literally called Megalopolis, by the Swedish manufacturer Boblbee. Mine is from 2001, but it was designed and released in the late 90s. Becoming a pretty big style icon in the dot-com tech boom of the early 2000s, which in itself is pretty spectacular, since they were all made in a little village with less than 500 inhabitants at the time.
They are still being made too! With the design largely unchanged more than 25 years later, with all the spare parts and accessories cross-compatible. Talk about a timeless design.
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So it's quite good from a safety standpoint as well. It's a 25 liter hardshell backpack with a built in organizer with different compartments, including one for a laptop... In a backpack, from the late 90s! Insane. Loose bits are stored in the organizer.
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The backpack is otherwise kept mostly empty, since it'll just be pointless weight, and I'm regularly picking up packages and moving stuff around. so it's primarily used for cargo space, and to be able to toss in whatever gadgets I might feel the need for that day.
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The Travel backpack
This one really isn't too exciting, to me at least. It's a modern Osprey backpack with a built in carrier system. Meaning it has a rigid metal frame and the back is a stretched mesh to form an air gap between the bag and your back. It's super nice for when it's warm out.
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