08-17-2006, 09:23 PM
Something else to add to the mix is that products continue to improve, making this year's opinions and assements perhaps obsolete from last. With the kind of competition there is out there between the companies we should expect technology that is high end today to come down in price and be adopted by lower end companies as the higher end ones find new ways to do things.
I remember the first few sub-$1000 computers. Everyone thought they had died and gone to heaven. Now you can buy much more machine for half that. The same is true with graphite rods. Today's breakthrough in technology becomes tomorrow's low end rod. It's the way of the free market. As a result, it may well be possible, now or in the near future, to buy a quality set of breathables for considerably less than $100 and actually stay dry in the things for more than a year. (That has never happened to me, mind you.)
I think TD indicated that a guy from Simms moved to Columbia. If that guy is designing waders for Columbia you can expect them to improve with the influence. I'll be checking out those waders the first time I have a chance to do so in person.
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I remember the first few sub-$1000 computers. Everyone thought they had died and gone to heaven. Now you can buy much more machine for half that. The same is true with graphite rods. Today's breakthrough in technology becomes tomorrow's low end rod. It's the way of the free market. As a result, it may well be possible, now or in the near future, to buy a quality set of breathables for considerably less than $100 and actually stay dry in the things for more than a year. (That has never happened to me, mind you.)
I think TD indicated that a guy from Simms moved to Columbia. If that guy is designing waders for Columbia you can expect them to improve with the influence. I'll be checking out those waders the first time I have a chance to do so in person.
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