Lucky Shamrock 253

Top 'O the Mornin'. We hope you all had a wonderful weekend, filled with family, friends, and green beer. You may have noticed that holidays inspire us here at BaileyWorks...and that we often create a bag in the spirit of these special days. With that said, here is our newest holiday bag, the Shamrock 253.

Bailey Bag Break-down

Ever wonder what people keep in their BaileyWorks bags? I was surfing around Flickr and found some interesting bag dump-outs. Click the following photos to see a break-down of what these riders carry in their Baileyworks bags.

What do you keep in yours?

-Ryan

According To My Opinion

Each year BaileyWorks sponsors Richard Sachs' cyclocross team. Take a look at some of the bags we made this season!

See more HERE.

-R

Premium Rush

Have you ever wondered how clothing for movies gets that "aged" look? Columbia Pictures used a few brand new BaileyWorks bags for their new film, Premium Rush, and believe it or not, it was somebody's job to beat them up. The bags were sent back to us looking 5-10 years older...so cool! Our bags once again prove themselves to indeed be, freakishly strong.

I'm actually excited to see this in theaters. I'm sure the bike stunts will be great, but I'll be playing "Where's Waldo?" for Bailey bags.

-Ryan

Moving along

Hello all. Lots of exciting things have happened since the introduction of The Swift to our line up of bags. We've added another back-pack-style bag: The RoadRunner, and we've refreshed our Kit Courier. It's now better than ever!

And perhaps the most exciting news is that we've moved from the old Button Factory in Portsmouth to the old Mill on Main Street in Newmarket, NH.

Newmarket, NH from the sky

The historic mill building sits along the Lamprey River, directly in the heart of town. Once the economic engine of the seacoast community, the building is now undergoing renovations and becoming home to many exciting new businesses, including us.

Tower at the Newmarket Mill

Newmarket is beautiful, and it's especially nice right now with the leaves and air changing for Fall. We couldn't be happier here at BaileyWorks. Our shop is now just as unique as our bags.

Putting a few fall colors on our new iron "bag tree"

Another addition to the new shop is viewing windows! Come by and watch BaileyWorks bags being made in the mill.

Visit us today:

55 Main Street #213

Newmarket, NH 03857

603-292-6485

-Ryan

Busy Summer :: New Product Sneak Peek

We’ve had a busy summer coming up with fresh, new bags for the holiday season. We have two – the Swift and the Roadrunner - that will be ready for purchase in the next few weeks. Both are two strap bags. Think of them as a cross between a 253 Courier and a Citizen Pack. The first bag you’ll see is the Swift:

The Swift



Swifts are speedy little birds that spend most of their time on the wing (their family name derives from the ancient Greek word meaning "without feet"), and can cover well over 100,000 miles in a year. If your feet rarely hit the ground and you travel fast and light, the Swift is for you.

This super durable two-strap pack has a weather resistant 1,000 denier Cordura outer shell and is lined with polyester coated nylon to keep your things dry all day. The front bellows pocket, complete with pen/pencil/phone holder, secures smaller items while the roomy interior, with an additional zippered pocket carries everything else. The Swift can hold nearly 700 cubic inches of your important things. Overall, the bag measures 15” high, 9” wide and 5” deep (front to back) and weighs in at a very reasonable 20 ounces. The padded back panel and adjustable, padded, shoulder straps create all-day comfort.

The Swift I’m testing currently holds all the supplies I need for a weekend of teaching in Seattle: the MacBook I’m using to write this post, a 1” 3-ring binder that holds a small stack of cases and notes, two paperback books (Return on Sustainability by Kevin Wilhem and The Prism and the Pendulum by Robert Crease), a couple of pens, an iPhone, an iPod (with chargers) my wallet, a water bottle, a Koka Moka ProBar and an IF catalog. At this moment, seated on a plane somewhere over Iowa, I offer a silent word of thanks to Jenn for making this very portable, extremely robust little bag!

(The other bag that I have to see me through this four-day, Pacific Northwest weekend is an extra small Whalemouth Duffle. Packed well, it holds more than you might have guessed. More on that later.)

Paper Labels: Design Collaboration: The Event

The Paper Labels Design Collaboration between BaileyWorks, Independent Fabrication and The Bodega was unveiled this past Friday at a party at The Fourth Wall Gallery on Brookline Street in Boston.
Our friends and guests were greeted by an incredible tag painted fresh by Dan from Bodega on Thursday.
The were also beckoned in off of the street by the warm glow of reflective safety strips on a rainbow bank of SuperPros.
There are three "packages" to the design collaboration; each featuring a bag, bike and t-shirt combination that personify urban bike life. The color scheme for each was inspired by classic spray paint colors; hence the name, Paper Labels.
The first package features a fender bike known as The Duck Hunter. Equipping this bike for the urban hunt are leather wrapped sweep back bars, a front Nitto rack featuring an olive Bailey D-Rack bag, Brooks saddle and Velocity wheels. A matching 253 Courier bag with a padded computer sleeve ensures that your goods make it through the hunt as well. (click on the images to enlarge)
The second package is built around a classic city commuter called the Mellow Fellow. Why start and end your day fighting stress inducing traffic congestion and road rage when you can glide along comfortably on a bike? The Mellow Fellow has leather wrapped classic drop bars for a range of comfortable hand positions. Polished brakes and front and rear racks, along with silver fenders and wheels make this elegant cruiser the more civilized way to get around town. A custom Citizen Backpack keeps all of your necessities secure and dry on your back as you make your way to and fro.
The last of the three collaborations is to feed your inner rebel. Perhaps you aspire to be a bicycle courier, or just remember your halcyon days of being one, or maybe you just want to experience the thrill of threading your way through the urban maze... if so, the Higgins is your steed. Fast and sleek with it's Aerospoke front rim and deep profile rear Velocity fixed hub wheel, along with narrow flat bars, this bike is built for purpose. Add in the SuperPro bag featuring a custom printed liner and BaileyWork's class leading split-strap, and you've got all the mojo that you need.
All of the bags feature custom vinyl liners printed with a montage of vintage spray cans.

These packages, or individual components, are all available for purchase, so if you see something that inspires you, please give us a call.
We also displayed a number of vignettes to showcase the range of things that we've been putting together here in Portsmouth in recent months. This is a Whalemouth Duffle custom labeled for James and Jeremy, the dynamic duo behind Embrocation Cycling Journal.
This is the David Byrne, of Talking Heads fame, bag. It features David's original cover art from his recently published book, Bicycle Diaries, which shares his experiences riding bicycles all over the world. We made the bags to benefit Transportation Alternatives in NYC.
Here is a favorite bike from last year, the Ox. 2009 was the "year of the ox" in the Chinese calendar. Jenn recently made up this one of a kind bag to compliment the bike, complete with a built in beverage bandolier, or alco-hauler, as some have taken to calling it.
We also took the opportunity to display a range of SuperPros and 253's made from re-purposed vinyl architectural banners. The banners came from the design project to upgrade Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn. Each one is a true one of a kind, and if you are interested in purchasing any of them, give us a call.
Finally, none of this would be possible without a dedicated team behind the seams, and they are literally all about seams... stitching them that is. It was great to have Jan and Jenn make the trip down to the big city to join Toni, Jon and I to see the fruits of their labor, even though Jan would not let me take her picture (she's doing the rockstar look-away-from-the-camera-and-act-disinterested-pose).

Cheers,

Gary