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Timbuk2 fan rocking our new backpack the Showdown (2012), en route to a tiger preserve in southern Indian.
Share your favorite holiday memory with us and you could win this custom Eula bag.

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Happy Holidays!
Where did you come from?
I was born and raised in Leavenworth, KS. For the first 25 years of my life I lived in a bubble, never venturing more than a few hours from the city I was born in. After a Christmas Eve snow storm that left me trapped in my office over the holidays I decided to move to someplace warm and sunny. I ended up in San Francisco instead. I’ve been here two years and couldn’t imagine calling any other area home.
What skill are you most proud of?
I love organizing events. I host several meetup groups in the Bay Area and plan events that range from small dinners to BBQs with more than 300 attendees.
What bag did you walk in the door with on your first day here?
I had a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles messenger bag. I’ve had it for years and feel like it’s apart of me so I was nervous about swapping it out for my new Timbuk2 backpack. Sadly for the turtles a backpack is about 1000x more comfortable when commuting by bike.
If you were invited to a potluck tomorrow- what dish would you bring?
Dinner rolls! I love baking bread.
What is your wildest dream job real or imagined?
I would love to work on the Doctor Who series in any capacity. Even if I’m just the person who touches up the TARDIS’s paint.
What is your favorite song to sing aloud when you are alone in the elevator, the car, or a deep wooded forest?
The Reading Rainbow theme song. I never sing in public but if I ever run into LeVar Burton I won’t be able to help myself.
No, they weren’t for me. But if you have to ride Muni, this is the way to do it!
I go to great lengths to limit my Muni riding in San Francisco (i.e. cycling in a midnight downpour), but this morning I had to do it. I gave myself a good looking-at-my-reflection-in–the-mirror pep talk, scraped together $2 in change and boarded early this morning. Braced for a random shouting match and looking for pooled water, I a) found a seat and b) looked up to realize the bus was uncrowded, quiet and pleasantly fragrant! People should surprise other people with flowers more often.

Via Timbuk2/instagram.
City Hall featured a red carpet and real snow last night. I should have ridden in my mink coat!
It was a slightly less glamorous scene this morning. A sad little snowman was melting in the morning sun and two big guys with shovels were cleaning up the melt. Out with the mink, in withe the black windbreaker.

City Hall in San Francisco on December 7. Via Instagram/timbuk2.
Not to be outdone, San Francisco’s train cars are all dressed up for the holidays too.
This year our design team worked really hard to develop a collection of serious cycling bags for serious cyclists. They created the Especial collection. It includes three packs – the Dos, Tres and Cuatro – and one pannier – the Viaje – and launches February 1, 2012 on timbuk2.com. But who wants to wait until February?! We thought you’d enjoy an earlier look at the Especial products that may change your commuting ways.
We gave our new Especial Cuatro Backpack to CS Couriers in Columbus, OH and asked them to ride it around. Here’s what the CS Couriers like about the Cuatro:
See more photos of the Especial Cuatro testing here. Our \ Especial collection launches on timbuk2.com on February 1, 2012.
The Stork never would have happened without you and thus storks around the word are squawking with gratitude. But for those of you who were not present when the Timbuk2 bag diaper conversation started ~2003, we thought you’d like to see and understand how the conversation unfolded and therefore, how the Stork came to be.
A Brief History of the Stork Messenger
2003: You kicked off the “diaper” conversation by showing us how your hacked Timbuk2 diaper bags and asking for a better solution.

A Timbuk2 Cargo Tote magically transformed by a customer into a diaper tote.
2004 – 2007: We experimented with under-built messengers and perhaps too pretty totes.

A diaper tote prototype in the Timbuk2 factory.
2008: We settled on using the messenger style and proceeded to over-build it.

Stroller straps that proved to be useless in testing. Who has two free hands to fasten buckles when the shoulder strap will do?
2009: We experimented with bulky inserts.

The modified Snoop Camera Insert proved too padded, too crowded, too heavy, too everything.
2010: We briefly considered developing a baby carrier.

While testing a Stork Messenger prototype, thoughts of baby carriers wafted through our minds. But after reading the rules and regulations associated with diaper carriers, we told our kids to walk.
2011: The Stork lands (or takes flight?). We modified our Classic Messenger with just enough but not too many diaper-specific features to support you through the diaper-dependent years, but importantly free you to apply your organization system and transition out of diaper mode when you’re ready.

Not a unitasker. The Stork’s slash pocket holds the removable changing mat or your laptop in place and has a built-in clear zippy pocket for quarantining stinky things or memory cards.
We designed the Stork to give you what you need but let you do your thing now and ten years from now; the Stork should never leave the nest. We hope you find the Stork useful and we’d love to know what you think. Send your feedback to social@timbuk2.com and get yourself a Stork here.
Hey, I’m Holly and this is my VERY first Timbuk2 messenger:

Where did you come from?
Not born, but definitely raised in the Bay Area… The 650 to be exact. Prior to Timbuk2 I worked at an “healthy energy & performance” company which is just a long, PC way of saying I worked for an energy drink company. Turns out, I have an affinity for one of their competitor’s drinks so, as you can imagine it wasn’t exactly a match made in heaven. Needless to say after interviewing with a multitude of people I was lucky enough to be hired here @ Timbuk2. Do you know how fun it was to tell people when I was leaving my old company I was headed to Timbuk2? The looks were priceless.
What skills are you most proud of?
I think I’m most proud of my nunchucking skills. Enough said.
What bag did you walk in the door with on your first day here?
I came in with the 12lb bag they gave us @ my last company. It’s now been replaced by the beauty above.
If you were invited to a potluck tomorrow- what dish would you bring?
I’d bring gourmet spicy instant noodles.
What is your wildest dream job, real or imagined?
There are TONS of things I’d love to do @ some point in my life BUT if we’re discussing dream jobs, I think I’d like to be a zoo keeper of a zoo full of baby wild, extinct & make believe animals… Elephants (my favorite animal), orca whales, lions, tigers, bears, gargoyles, unicorns, sasquatchs, dinosaurs, a baby loch ness monster, etc…
What is your favorite song to sing aloud when you are alone in the elevator, the car, or a deep wooded forest?
This is a really hard question. I try not to sing aloud even when I’m alone because my voice & lack of tone is so offensive it’s embarrassing even to me. If I do anything musically related when I’m alone it would have to be perfecting my Rick Ross grunt. I’m professional at that. I should add it to the skills I’m most proud of.
After years of anticipation, our diaper bag launched today. We are so proud! And we’re grateful to you for kicking us in the buns over and over again until we produced the Stork Messenger.
Check out the Stork’s maiden voyage in our hood with our favorite local family.

Putting on her riding shoes.

Digging for the riding snacks.

Weeee!

Rompin’ with Pops post ride.
Local gal Andrea popped by the Timbuk2 office last week to drop off a fresh copy of The Poor SF Bastard Almanac. The almanac is a guide to cheap, interesting, sometimes wacky things in San Francisco. Andrea used to work for our friends and neighbors @Arc Metalworks and is currently helping her friend distribute the latest edition of the Almanac. Check it out and/or buy it here. We were super stoked to see Andrea rocking her custom Timbuk2 messenger in tights and Cons. Cheers to Andrea; a champion of creativity and creation in our community.