Messenger Bag Madness

By Rocky Thompson on January 15th, 2007

Apparently I missed the boat when I didn’t start a company making messenger bags from recycled materials. Ecological Designs Green Gear is a Boulder-based company that builds messenger bags from recycled highway billboards and truck inner tubes. They’re kind of like a domestic Freitag or a competitor of Alchemy Goods. Ecological Designs’ choice of wide truck tubes for their Blowout Messenger Bag lends a clean look that’s also useful for keeping your stuff dry.

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6 Responses to “Messenger Bag Madness”

1. Techweenie Todd January 15th, 2007 at 10:53 am

   I call Shenanigans. WTF is with all these messenger bags. By my calculations enough companies are making hipster messenger bags that as of now every man, woman and child should have 2 of them on the average. Disturbingly, I own none, therefore there is someone who owns 4 hipster messenger bags to balance me out.

   Somehow I doubt there are that many messengers with that many messages to carry in Sugarhouse, Manhatten, and wherever Hipsters are sold.

2. whiskyTango January 15th, 2007 at 8:08 pm

   No messenger bag for Techweenie but he does have those sweet assless chaps.

   http://www.leatherup.com/product.asp?pf_id=B7552%2DChaps%2DEasy%2DFit

   GO ahead click it. Its work safe. You can trust whisky.

3. Techweenie Todd January 17th, 2007 at 3:06 pm

   Assless Chaps. Let me ask this, is there another kind I’m not aware of? Assed Chaps haven’t really hit the market yet. Maybe you’ve stumbled on something here.

4. Not quite sure whats going on here???? January 24th, 2007 at 11:54 am

   Like to thanks Backcounty goat for the press. Also like to thank techweenie todd and whiskytango for keeping it interesting. Not quite sure what these other guys are talking about. Guess that is what you get with the freedom of open blogs.

   Hope you all get a chance to check out all the gear at http://www.ecologicdesigns.com, we are excited to offer great environmentally and socially friendly gear from “hipster?” messenger bags to snowboard bags, goggle straps, clothes, wallets, etc. With a concentration on recycled and environmentally friendly materials and US manufacturing you can’t find a more sustainable option.

   Thanks,
   Davidson Lewis

5. Backcountry.com: The Goat » Blog Archive » Cadence Clothing March 1st, 2007 at 3:45 pm

   [...] It’s nice to see a cycling company making something besides recycled messenger bags. Cadence is a Seattle-based clothing company selling handmade clothes and iPod cases with a kind of hipstery, fixie-riding angle. The stuff is all made by a former San Francisco messenger originally from the Midwest, so you know he’s good people. By Rocky Thompson [...]

6. Backcountry.com: The Goat » Blog Archive » Timbuk2’s Lamitron Plastic Jug Messenger Bags June 29th, 2007 at 11:15 am

   [...] While the rest of the world is making messenger bags in their bike shops from recycled truck tarps and old vinyl signage, Timbuk2 is still banging their heads against their cubicles trying to come up with a material for their own recycled bags. Timbuk2’s upcoming bag is called Lamitron—probably named after the process of fusing low- and high-density polyethylene into a waterproof, durable fabric. They haven’t announced pricing or a release date for their shopping-bar-and-milk-jug packs, so we’ll all have to keep polluting with the messenger bags we’re currently using. [...]