Yorepek · on the market since 2016

Yorepek: one question, asked about six different loads

Yorepek has been making bags since 2016, and the range makes more sense once you notice it is organised by shape rather than by activity.

Open the boot of a car after a Saturday and you can usually reconstruct the day from what is loose in it. A ball. One boot. A towel that was wet three hours ago and is still wet now, lying across a jumper. Somewhere under all of it, the second boot.

That is the problem this whole range answers, and it is worth naming precisely, because it is not a shortage of space. There is plenty of space in a car boot. What is missing is separation: a place where the wet thing can be wet without the dry thing having to deal with it.

Most of these bags are two bags

Look at almost anything on these shelves and you find the same structural decision. The soccer pack has a vented bay at the bottom for boots, a cage on the front for a ball, and the kit compartment sits between them, sealed off from both. The golf organiser is a deck with a ventilated shoe floor underneath it, so the balls and the glove never meet a stud. The nail case is two slotted trays that pull out over each other, and the slow cooker carrier is a pot below and a shelf for the serving spoons above.

None of that is exotic. It is more zips, more panels and more seam than a single deep well, and it is where the difference between a fifteen-dollar bag and a forty-five-dollar one goes. A bag with one compartment is cheaper to make and it is also the reason your towel is on your jumper.

There is plenty of room in a car boot. What is missing is somewhere for the wet thing to be wet.

The pack that most people arrive through

For a lot of people the first thing they meet here is one bag: a 17.5 by 13 by 8.5 inch travel pack with a padded sleeve cut for a seventeen-inch laptop, three compartments and something over ten pockets. It carries more than fifty thousand ratings, which is an unusual amount of use to have behind a single object, and it earns the position honestly — seventeen inches is a real constraint, and a fifteen-inch sleeve solves nothing for the person who owns a seventeen-inch machine.

It is also the bag an outside reviewer has taken apart. OutdoorGearLab tested the fifty-litre version and scored it 71 out of 100: nine out of ten for storage, eight for ease of use, and then six for laptop protection and six for versatility, with a blunt note that a pack loaded to its maximum is uncomfortable and that the zips have no storm flaps. We link that review on our updates page rather than quoting the flattering half of it, because a score with a criticism in it tells you something a marketing line cannot.

Four shelves with no straps on them

The half of the range that gets less attention has nothing to do with backs and shoulders. A tripod case is bought by exactly one number, the folded length of the tripod with the head still attached, and so the three bodies are 30.5, 40.5 and 50.5 inches rather than small, medium and large. A Cricut case is 23 by 9 by 9 inches because that is the outline of the machine plus a little air. A slow cooker carrier is specified in quarts, because quarts is the number printed on the base of your pot.

That is the pattern worth knowing about this catalogue: where a bag exists for a named object, its dimensions are the dimensions of that object, and the product name says so. Where a bag exists for a category — a school day, a weekend, a training session — it is specified in litres and in inches instead. Neither figure is decorative, and both are printed on every card here before you have to decide anything.

Where a bag stops

Two of these shelves sit close to something a person can get hurt by, and it is worth being exact about what a bag does and does not do there.

A car seat bag is luggage. It keeps a shell clean, gives a handler something to hold, and stops a moulded plastic seat taking the corner of somebody's hard case in a hold. It does not make a seat airworthy and it does not make a damaged seat usable. The federal aviation administration is clear that the safest place for a child under two on a US aeroplane is an approved restraint in its own seat rather than a lap, and that the seat has to carry the line about being certified for use in motor vehicles and aircraft. The national highway traffic safety administration draws part of its line between a seat that stays in service and one that does not on whether there is visible damage to it — so the thing to do when a bag comes off a belt is open it and look.

A school backpack is the other one. The american academy of pediatrics puts the ceiling at fifteen per cent of the child's own body weight, wants the bottom of the pack resting in the curve of the lower back and never more than four inches below the waistline, and asks for two broad padded straps rather than one. Our capacity figures tell you what a bag holds. They do not tell you what a person should carry, and a forty-litre pack half full is often the right answer.

What this site will not tell you

There is no factory tour here, no head count, no founder photograph and no award badge, because none of those would survive somebody typing them into a search box. The year is the whole of what we claim about ourselves.

What the site does carry is the part that can be checked against the object in your hands: three dimensions, a capacity, a compartment count, a material where the material is named, and a price that came from our own update rather than from somebody else's page. Where a claim needs an outside authority — flying with a seat, weight on a child's back, polish in a bag — the authority is named with the date we read it, and the link goes to them rather than to us.