It was an incredible day for Bike to Work Day—according to the SFBC there were twice as many bicycles as cars headed downtown on San Francisco’s Market Street on the 14th annual Bike to Work Day. Bicyclists made up 64% of the eastbound traffic at Market St. & Van Ness Ave., while motorists comprised 32% [...]
our man in the factory (Dan) send us this update about our newest custom bag… i thought it might be interesting to share with you, internet.
Cargo Tote Update:
It’s been a couple of weeks since we launched the cargo tote. The 1st few days were difficult since this product was new and the orders were [...]
cnn has an article about our lamitron bags and trash in general. but i think the most important feature of the article is the fact they said what no one else would dare…
here’s the updates and information regarding this whole lamitron idea. including a real cease and desist letter from target!
After week one of the Bay Area Team bike challenge, here are the current standings for Timbuk2’s teams:
Spandex Jump Suits: 73 points
Team in Training Wheels: 58 points
Roid Rage: 57 points
The Missing Link: 57 points
Team Rabid Squirrels: 47 points
Perry’s Kids: 5 points
Bike to Work Day is next Thursday. For more information, check out sfbike.org.
From Jonny’s blog:
The rad people at Timbuk2 hooked me up with an awesome new space (at 16th and Alabama) to make belts and spread the good biking word… so I spent this afternoon packing up all of ZPG’s worldly possessions and then unpacking them much faster on account of all the coffee I downed half [...]
We donated 500 bike to work day t-shirts to the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition for Bike to Work Day, that we had to deliver to their office. It seemed wrong to deliver Bike to Work t-shirts to a bike coalition by way of car so Cole and I schlepped all 500 in our bike trailers. [...]
For over 3 years I’ve worked alongside all these fixie fiends and somehow I managed to steer clear of being on two wheels myself. It’s not that the bike babble escaped me completely. I get that fixed gears have no brakes and track stands mean you don’t put your feet down at stop lights.
Don’t get [...]
Yesterday Timbuk2 launched a new custom product—our cargo tote is now being made in our SF Factory. You will see it on our website, and in our retailers soon. We are very proud of this product and the hard work that went into designing, and building it. It is also the first product to come [...]
I just wanted to congratulate Laura for her first time on a bike in over 14 years! We road to the mission and back yesterday to get her comfortable on a bike and she did awesome! Team Bike Challenge starts today, I hope the other teams are ready because team Missing Link is going to [...]
Timbuk2 has put together six teams of five to compete in 511.org’s Team Bike Challenge throughout the month of May. How does it work? Each team must log the number of days they ride on 511.org and the team with the most total days ridden at the end of May wins. [...]
