Rickshaw Bags now at the 'Chain!

Guess what! I bet you read the title for this post, huh. Guess anyway! You’re right! San Francisco’s own Rickshaw Bags are now available at Citizen Chain: come by and check out all the sweetness! For a little taste of what this great company can do for you, check out their site, or perhaps check out some examples on their Flickr. They make a whole range of bags and the best part is they used recycled fabrics and their bag design is actually a Zero-Waste product! Whaaat? Its true. They use every scrap of fabric to make the bags; hence the name the “Zero” Messenger Bag. New to Rickshaw, they have also just designed their first new fabric. They wanted to make some bags out of tweed, but they found that the old tweed wasnt up to the task and would fray. So they have designed their own proprietary Tweed blend and they have just released a bunch of bags made out of it. Come on down and buy one and then you could be like one of these folks!

Another short on Citizen Chain

It’s been quite a month for us at Citizen Chain. We have had a really busy summer with a lot of repair work! A big “Thank You!” to everyone for their patronage. We also have a few ideas abrew that are sure to keep us busy through the fall and [our excuse for a] winter season. So be sure to check back for info on our wool jerseys as well as our kid’s bike “my first lease” program. We also had some good press from CBS (see the post below) and now, thanks to our friend, neighbor, shop ally and documentary film maker Aron Ranen and his Digital Video Course we now have another little film short on the ‘Chain. Thank you to Zane Adamo for making the clip and his father for hosting it on the Bakersfield Californian website. We told you we were gonna be huge on this internet thing.
Also, for those of you who care, we have added 2 new links to our Links Page. If you have a moment, please check out Big Ring Riding for some great old pictures of true bicycle riders and be sure to stop by Disraeli Gears and peruse their amazing catalog of amazing bits and pieces of bicycle engineering.

Taking over the internet!

Hello internets! We’ve been super-busy since we last spoke and while it can be trying, we cant complain about the work. We love what we do and so we love to be busy! We also had CBS stop by our shop and they filmed a quick little thing on our shop. Some producers called us telling us they wanted to produce a short internet clip for our shop and talk about how, as a small business, we have managed the recession. They wanted to know what we have done to make ourselves unique and what steps we have done to make ourselves stand out among the crowd. It was a quick interview and it was super quick editing time. Click on the banner image above or here to watch the clip! They also made mention that they were going to edit the footage they shot into a clip emphasizing going green and recycling older bikes - so stay tuned for that!

On a side note, we also had a great time at the Dolores Park Bike Swap last week. I would say it was bigger than swaps past, and there were some really nice bikes around, so a success all around! Click here or check out our flickr stream for some photos.

A Ben Serotta built 1984 USA Olympic Team Track Bike

I also came across a new acronym yesterday when perusing the BBC: MAMIL. Ever heard of it? If youre reading this, chances you are one. Middle-Aged-Man-In-Lycra. Ring a bell? Maybe youre in some now. Anyway, check out the article. I talks about how many more middle-aged men are turning to cycling and how as a demographic, they are popularizing the sport. Ride on!