Timbuk2 fan Sonia, has been through quite a lot. She wrote to us explaining how her beloved bag was stolen from where she was working at an event for Girls Rock Camp. Not only had her bag been stolen, just a few weeks before she had decided to join the Low Car Diet Challenge, a national program encouraging people to give up their cars! Whoo hoo, who doesn’t love that. Well, after building her very own custom messenger bag to carry all her crap around by bike, bam it was gone. She even put out a Craigslist ad!
Someone out there knew the importance of this bag to her, and it found it’s way back. A few hours later we got this email: “Cycle Oregon is located just 2 blocks away from where I work and that’s where the bag was dumped. My Timbuk2 bag made its way to Cycle Oregon and Cycle Oregon saw my craigslist ad. I started to tear up a little when I saw my bag. I think getting a custom bag makes the attachment just a little stronger. But there is sadness no more. We are united once again!
I’ll never let this bag out of my sight again.”
A Timbuk2 fan recently posted on Get Satisfaction that he was seeing Timbuk2 bags everywhere in Switzerland. Given the outrageous beauty of the Swiss and their landscapes, we asked him to show us what that looked like. He followed up with this killer photo of his T2 bag at the Matterhorn. The only thing that could possibly make this photo better is if it included Heidi or Federer.
Timbuk2 donated a bunch of messenger bags to Students for International Change (SIC), a non-profit org based in Arusha, Tanzania that focuses on HIV/AIDS education and testing. Their staff commutes long distances by bike and foot to reach the communities they educate and test. Their work is critically important and Timbuk2 is really stoked to support them. Perhaps the day will come when we’ll see a What’s In Your Bag photo that features HIV testing supplies and teaching materials . . .
This bag got built yesterday - unreal work making an old 2nd hand fireman’s jacket and pants into a nice bag - Chris and Donald did a great job in our San Fran Factory. See more photos of this bag here.
20 pounds of tomatoes arrived at Timbuk2 headquarters today. The gorgeous heirlooms are a tasty (big)little treat from our friends at Eatwell Farms in Northern California’s Sacramento Valley. Yes, we ride the localvore train.
How many of these beauties do you think you could fit in your messenger bag?!
Sarah Beth’s Timbuk2 bag has traveled to North America, South America, Africa, Europe and Asia! But the photo of her Timbuk2 messenger being carried by a camel in the Moroccan Sahara stole the show. Her bag is also personalized with some rad Massai art. As if that wasn’t enough, the winning photo was taken within a relative distance of the real Timbuktu! Frankly, I want to be Sarah’s bag.
Overall, Sarah Beth’s bag seems to be supremely adventurous and creative, two things we really value at Timbuk2. As the winner of Timbuk2’s first online bag give away contest, Sarah Beth will receive a $200 gift certificate to make a new custom bag.
Whew! That was a lot of fun. We will definitely be doing this again sometime soon. If you have ideas for what the next contest topic should be, let us know!
Our eco-conscious friends at Ideal Bite are celebrating our beloved little Hemp Metro on their blog today by calling it what it is - a murse. Feminine enough to be carried by a woman, but masculine enough to be lugged around by men with sh*t to carry. Ideal Bite, bless them, helped explain the murse concept by calling on Murse Man, Russia’s greatest prize. Murse Man, we salute you!
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 really smart mod on a commute to make the velcro silent and fast… Andy placed extra pieces of velcro tape over the velcro on the Commute flap - simple and gets it done.
