March 21st, 2013
It’s show time at the Castro! The 2013 Disposable Film Festival kicks off its world tour March 21st at the famous Castro Theater in San Francisco. Rickshaw is proud to sponsor DFF once again, and we’ve created another gorgeous limited edition graphic messenger bag and iPad sleeve to commemorate this year’s festival. Selected by MovieMaker [...] Read more
March 7th, 2013
Watch a fast version of Mark’s 2012 ride in “500 miles in 5 minutes,” and follow this year’s route on Instagram by following @markdwight Day 5 Recap: finale! Friday, February 22, 2013. Greetings from Newport Beach — the end of the line for my 2013 SF-LA ride. I covered 112 miles from Ventura to Newport [...] Read more
March 7th, 2013
Thank you SO much for all of your support over the past two months. With your help we were able to fund our first kick starter project and exceed our goal! Working with other local brands is what drives our passion. When we first met the founders of Halo Belt we knew we had a [...] Read more
January 25th, 2013
Rickshaw and Halo trip the light fantastic! One great idea begets another. As you may or may not know, Rickshaw is collaborating with another San Francisco-based start-up on a cool Kickstarter project called the Halo Zero LED Messenger Bag. The project is now live on Kickstarter, and funding is progressing nicely. The purpose of this [...] Read more
November 6th, 2012
When I started Rickshaw, I was focused primarily on environmental sustainability — zero finished goods, zero waste, PVC-free, Cradle-To-Cradle — in a word, “green”. However, I’ve always felt a certain uneasiness with the whole “green thing”. I watched as company after company made vague, hollow and sometimes downright false claims about their environmental friendliness. I struggled [...] Read more
April 26th, 2012
It’s now been a little over a week and our rolltop backpack testers(link to old blog post) have had some time to get their hands on our Rickshaw rolltop backpack prototype. Check out these great photos of people with their bags in the wild! We received overwhelming positive feedback we got about style, [...] Read more
April 23rd, 2012
We’re partnering with Girl Bike Love to present the SF edition of CycloFemme: a ride to encourage women in cycling. We met Girl Bike Love at the North American Handmade Bike Show in Sacramento a few weeks back when we noticed this sweet ride by Sarai Snyder. http://girlbikelove.com/2012/03/built-to-fit-mosaic-gbl-cx-goes-to-nahbs/. After speaking with her, Christy discovered her campaign [...] Read more
April 7th, 2012
Today we put the finishing touches on our Roll Top Backpack and shipped them out to 10 lucky testers. We were pretty darn excited, so Kody (our product designer) pulled them around the neighborhood on our Rickshaw. Over the next month the beta testers will get to use the bag in all sorts of conditions [...] Read more
March 22nd, 2012
We are literally jumping out of our SEATS because the Disposable Film Festival kicks off tonight at the historic Castro Theater in San Francisco! We’re proud to be back as a sponsor of the Disposable Film Festival for a second year and once again have created a collection of truly special bags that also support [...] Read more
February 28th, 2012
For months now we’ve been working on a made in America, soft form, customizable backpack to serve our urban commuting needs. We’ve been through 15 iterations, countless design meetings and several days of pulling strangers off the street to ask “Hey! Try this on, what do you think?” We’re pleased to announce we’ll be debuting [...] Read more
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