: But I don’t want to do it that way…

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Over the weekend, and the past week actually, I have been back doing the fun part of making stuff – designing. Since we rekindled Lab-Gear back in late ’07, I have been working on and off with designing some carry goods (bags etc.) to add to the line.

Of course with the ever increasing dearth of such product on the market, there has to be a point of difference, otherwise there is little point; why just do what everyone else is doing, right? The point of difference I had decided originally was going to revolve around materials and price. Materials, I aimed to use only leather for all the reasons that leather is great. Price, well, leather is a premium material and as such attracts a premium price. Rightly so too but I wanted to do leather AND be cost effective/competitive with Cordura based products.

Now that is a challenge. (more…)

 

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: 4 images: Designing stuff

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It’s been a good week for getting back onto the design + prototype wagon. Here I’m prototyping the new (and well overdue) full leather ride pouch. After making it up, a few things are changing as more interesting ways to achieve the same thing but with added function cropped up. Once this process down 100%, it’ll be onto more bags and the like, which I have been wanting to do properly for too long now.

Also got the tubing sorted for one of the new frames in the works.

 

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: Hand Pressed

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Hand pressing snaps into Bomb Truck shorts

 

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: 650 Beee

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We have been working slowly on our frame designs here, something if you follow us on Twitter you might have caught wind of. It’s a simple line consisting of three ‘real world riding’ frame configurations, all made in the US from US made materials and components. Reading that, I can hear alarm bells going off as the thought of ‘handmade in the US’ floods you with pictures of boutique prices. We have a few surprises in store for you… (more…)

 

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: Cooler than riding (sorry, it is)

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Need4Speed: Insight from Phoenix Fly on Vimeo.

 

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