Photo by Bikeportland.org The most bike friendly city in the country is about to get friendlier this weekend! After the success of last year’s North American Handmade Bike Show held in Portland, the organizers decided to throw their own annual show. Oregon Manifest will boast custom frame builders and other bike-centric vendors, parties, and a [...]
The 2008 USA CRITS Series is getting even bigger with the addition of the San Francisco Twilight Criterium on September 13. Spearheaded by Ryan Dawkins, President of Project Sport and Andy Ball, CEO of Webcor Builders, the City by the Bay will once again become the backdrop for a top-notch competition featuring some of the [...]
Last night after work I grabbed my silver lamé dress and headed down to golden gate park for the first in the three race series known as DFL. 200 hundred dudes and a handful of ladies showed up for cross-dressing cyclocross-racing mayhem. Not hip on the bike lingo? DFL stands for Dead F#*&ing Last.
Last week Sunrace Sturmey Archer announced on their blog that they have received their first batch of working prototypes for a geared fixed gear hub. Seriously?! A lot of people explain the reasons to ride a fixie: the simplicity, the connection with the bike, the difficulty, the style, etc. But what reason would you have [...]
This thing was parked in front of our factory yesterday morning. One of my coworkers was convinced some band had just pulled up until I pointed out the uHaul with tricycles dress up like muppets. Yup, it’s that time of year again for the mass exodus to the desert to create unique pieces of art [...]
A quick post about a couple cool things we’ve been up to lately. First off, our friends at core77.com have invited us to be guest judges for their back to school 1 hour design contest. If you think you’ve got a good backpack design, and can bust out the concept in under an hour click [...]
One of the things I have always appreicated about Timbuk2 customers is their commitment to modify our bags, hack them, make them better for whatever they need. Andy ‘Papa’ (short for some crazy long Greek name) works in Nascar for Hedrick Motorsports and well his bag was just not fast enough… he did a simple but [...]
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