September 22, 2009 – 12:59 pm
If you’re heading to Interbike 2009 in Vegas, be sure to check out West Coast Gold Sprints Kreitler Cup Thursday night Sept. 24th from 8PM – Midnight. We’ll be there giving away sweet bags!
*Images courtesy of Taliah Lempert New York artist Taliah Lempert makes beautiful bike art! In addition to her custom (how cool is that) bike paintings, prints, postcards and t-shirts she offers a super cool coloring book . For more information about Taliah’s awesome work visit her webpage at: bicyclepaintings.com
Our friend Fernanda brought her new Racing Stripe Messenger all the way to Puerto Natales, Chile (Magallanes Y De La Antartica Chilena). Sweet!
I was messing around Etsy again, and found this super cool bicycle mobile: Creator Ms. Salty & Sweet is an industrial designer by day who likes playing with the laser cutter at night. Check out her Etsy store here to see all her kick ass mobiles including: Pirates vs. Ninjas, Roller Derby Girls, Pin-Ups, Monkeys [...]
We unscientifically calculated facebook and flickr love posts, to narrow down our bag biography competition entries to ten. From there the Timbuk2 office voted for the top five winners. It literally came down to one vote for a couple winners. Read their stories and check out everyone’s entries here. Thank you to everyone who entered!
Writer-Illustrator Zina Saunders, creates portraits and interviews of often overlooked groups in New York including those of Bike Messengers! It all began back in June 2005 with a Puerto Rico Schwinn Club and now includes urban gardeners, kite flyers, dance roller skaters and more. Zina lives and works in New York City, where she grew [...]
Sometimes I like to randomly search for cool hand made stuff on Etsy.com, and today I found with these super cool bike tees! Clockwise from the top left: Green Fixie by Vital Industries a tiny little home/studio – where Brett and Crystal work out of their house in Denver, Colorado. It’s filled to the rafters [...]
One of our eight year old fans took full creative license with their messenger, and we love it!
Our loyal fan Dave Strunk was featured in the most recent issue of Fixed Magazine with his old school Timbuk2 Pentabike bag. How sweet is that? Here’s a little history behind the design: The short version behind the origins of this little design is simply as follows; In our lord’s year of 1991, while employed [...]
There’s only a week and some change left until our bag biography competition is over, and the free bag giving away begins. Quite a few super cool pictures and stories have already come in and we’d love to see which are your faves. You can comment about or “like” them at our facebook album here [...]
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