Timbuk2 Bar Week

Get ready. We’re honoring our pack line with a San Francisco bar crawl next week.

Bar Crawl

Hardly Strictly Timbuk2

Ode to Bluegrass and Timbuk2! This is me and a couple good friends very happy at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in my totally awesome Hidden backpack
HardlyStrictly01

This is a collage that my awesome coworker Megan made and posted on my facebook page. Doesn’t she totally rock!! There were so many bags at the festival it was hard to keep track… check em’ out!
Hardly Strictly Bags

Toby Joins Timbuk2 for the Day

Oh to be a dog with a little beard. . .

Toby

Friday Brew

Ahhhh, Friday.

Friday

Beautiful Bikes

Last night I spotted one of the best looking bikes I’ve ever seen. It was an Ebisu and its proud owner found it at the Jitensha bike studio in Berkeley. The bike had these fenders, which apparently look like this when they’re being made. I didn’t have the heart to make the guy abandon his leh-zure ride for a modeling shoot in the TenderNob. But the photo below looks exactly like it, only in a slightly more elevated setting. Dreamy.

Ebisu
A look-alike of the beautiful Ebisu I spotted.

FLAPping Away

Yesterday we launched this page as a one-stop-shop for all things FLAP. The FLAP bags are currently in production and we’re continuing to receive great feedback from the field. Throughout the month of October, Fast Company will be writing about the FLAP project as we ramp up for its unveiling at PopTech on October 22. Fast Company’s first article in this series calls the FLAP bag, “An incredible, intelligent, game-changing bag.” Read the entire article here.

Not totally clear on what the FLAP Project is all about? The PopTech and Afrigadget videos below provide great context on the project and product. For more information, check out this page, read Timbuk’s FLAP blog posts, and see photos of the project. Stay tuned!

FLAP Bag project, part 1 from PopTech on Vimeo.

The FLAP bags start to arrive from WhiteAfrican on Vimeo.

12 Years of Companionship

We ran into Nathan and his 1997 messenger at Interbike. Nathan wants to create his own frame shop.

Nathan

Nathan's Bag

Donald Fisher Departs

The SF Gate reported today that, “Donald Fisher, who co-founded Gap Inc. with a single San Francisco blue jeans outlet in 1969 and turned it into a worldwide, 3,100-store casual-wear empire, died Sunday of cancer at his San Francisco home, the company said. He was 81.” Mr. Fisher was a lifetime San Francisco resident, major retail pioneer, and philanthropist. Donal and his wife and business partner, Doris, “helped keep the Giants in San Francisco and amassed one of the world’s great collections of modern art,” reported the SF Gate. Much of Fisher’s art is on public display in San Francisco; a gift that keeps on giving. Gavin Newson said of Fisher, “His unwavering commitment to our city’s arts and civic culture will be remembered for generations to come.” Regardless of how you feel about the Gap empire, Donald Fisher made a big impact on the retail world and was very good to the city of San Francisco. He will be missed and celebrated.

Fisher
Photo courtesy of Gap Inc. via the SF Gate.

High Fiving in NYC

Do try this at home . . .

CELLSpace Event in San Francisco

CELLspace is holding the Ride Too! Benefit tonight at 8 pm. Since 1996, the CELL has supported the arts and alternative transportation. For RIDE TOO!, they’re welcoming back their old neighbors, the Bike Kitchen, to their new shop on Florida Street. Proceeds from the event will help cover CELLspace’s and help fund the new Mural Project on 633 Florida St. Get the details here.

CellSpace Event