Good news for our left-handed comrades! The lefty option is back in the Bag Builder. Now you can choose to have the TrueFit cam buckle sewn to the left side of custom messengers. Why is this a victory for lefties worldwide? Let me (attempt to) explain . . . Lefties typically wear messengers over their right shoulder which means they need the cam buckle sewn to the left side of the messenger so they can swing it around under their left arm and adjust the cam buckle with their right hand. Righties do the exact opposite. Capiche?
Thank you to the lefties who spoke up and to the righties who like to pretend they’re lefties. Timbuk2 is proud to support all arms, digits, and ambiturners. Now go forth and build a lefty messenger!
The lefty option is back in Bag Builder! Unfortunately, we can’t make changes to the Napoleon pocket, but lefties can still access it by swinging the bag all the way around. Not ideal (sorry!), but Napoleon wasn’t exactly a saint.
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Can let us decide whether we want the napolean pocket on the left or the right side zip?
I’m not a lefty but I always wear my messenger bag on my right shoulder. I adjust my cam buckle with my right hand.
I gotta wear my other Timbuk2 messenger bags, with the default right handed option, backwards (with the bag opening next my body) in order to adjust the cam with my right hand.
Thanks for keeping that left handed option in the Bag Builder.
I am also waiting for the option of the napoleon pocket sewn to the other side
Im with May on this one. I’m one of those righties that prefer to wear my bags over the right shoulder. By default that’s how I put my bag on without thinking. Thanks for the option.
I’m a leftie too, will wait for the napoleon pocket to be on the other side.
I was tempted, but with the lack of a return option for us lefties needing more expensive custom bags with still mostly inaccessible napoleon pockets, I think I will just have to pass. My duct-taped and carabinered timbuk2 will have to hold a little longer.
my timbuk2 D-Lux messenger just arrived about 4 hours ago – I’m also a right-handed person with the natural tendency to wear shoulder bags on the right shoulder. Since the D-Lux is right-handed only, I’ve just decided to wear it backwards… it totally works. I actually think the napoleon pocket is easier to use this way, probably because its so awkward having the bag on the left shoulder.
just swing around the bag to the front. It’s what I used to do with my backpacks to get stuff out of them without taking it off.
What has to happen to get a left-handed Nepolean pocket? Timbuktu, you folks are usually great about meeting the needs of your customers/fans.
You know I never even thought about what side I wear my bag on until I bought a timbuk2 bag… I’m another righty that wears a bag “left-handed”. It would be really awesome if the pocket could be offered on the left side as well (hell even offering the non custom bags in a left-handed version would be awesome too). Till then though I might just have to learn to sew & put the pocket and the lock on the other side of my bag.