Seattle store hours tomorrow (special instructions!)

Our Seattle store is open tomorrow from 12:00pm – 5:00pm. Our store is on the second floor of the building, and our passenger elevator is out of service for the next ten days. In order to visit the store, you will need to call us at 1-800-729-9607 to tell us you’re here and we can come down the side stairs to escort you up. Please call if you have any questions! We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this causes. See you tomorrow!

Flickr: New Bike (with Medium Cafe Bag)

Flickr photo showing a Medium Cafe Bag

See the picture at Flickr or visit the Medium Cafe Bag page.

Buy Me An iPhone Reviews the ID

TOM BIHN ID messenger laptop bag reviewed by Buy Me an iPhone
Excerpt:
“Some of you may have never heard of Tom Bihn but I want to make sure you know about them now. They’re a company located in the seemingly far reaches of the Great Upper Northwest that makes a quality bag that should last a lifetime. With a plethora of styles and designs to choose from, the toughest decision you will have is what style you want. The ID bag from Tom Bihn does not disappoint; a highly protective and stylish bag with ample room that will surely meet your needs when it come to lugging your gear around.”

Read the entire review at Buy Me An iPhone

In stock and ready to ship…

The following bags are now in-stock and ready to ship:

Super Ego in Black/Black/Cayenne, Black/Black/Steel

Size 7 Horizontal Brain Cell, Black

Medium Cafe Bag in Cocoa/Wasabi, Storm/Sapphire, Cocoa/Olive, Plum/Wasabi, Plum/Olive, Black/Steel, Black/Wasabi

Small Cafe Bag in Storm/Sapphire, Sapphire/Steel, Black/Wasabi, Black/Steel

Large Cafe Bag: All colors

New color: Punch (shown in the Small Cafe Bag)

Below are preview pictures of a new color we’ve added to our palette – Punch. It is a rich, vibrant, sophisticated magenta. Punch will be available for pre-order in certain bags (Cafe Bags, Swift) within the week.
TOM BIHN Small Cafe Bag in Punch


TOM BIHN Small Cafe Bag in Punch

TOM BIHN Small Cafe Bag in Punch

Customer Feedback

“I have had my Tom Bihn backpack since about 1990, and it has been through 4 years of high school, 5 years of college, 6 years of commuting to work, and now almost 4 years as a baby gear bag. Thanks for making such a quality product!” – Cori

“I commented on my ID when I first got it back in February and I just wanted to tell you that I still love it. I’ve put it through some rough times (I pretty much carry my work life in it every day all day) and its held up perfectly! I’ve even slogged it through some snowstorms, rainstorms, and any other type of storm you can think of and its kept everything super dry. I never worry about anything in it. Now, I keep drooling over other bags on the website and I’m hoping to get one as soon as possible! Thanks so much for making a bag that can hold up to the craziness that is my worklife!!” - Jeanie

“Thank you for getting the aeronaut out to me just in time for my trip.
The Aeronaut has exceeded all of my expectations and has since logged
~15000 miles.

The aeronaut has none of the ergonomic problems my other bags have and
the construction is rock solid (but you knew that!). The shoulder
straps, backpack straps and handles don’t tug at or contort the bag in
unnatural ways. I fit two weeks of vacation and business clothes in
there (disclaimer: I did laundry) with no bulge.” – Bill

Checkpoint Flyer Reviewed on Slashdot

Excerpt:
“Oh, and the Checkpoint Flyer handles rain like you’d expect from a bag out of Seattle. For reasons that do not here bear examination, I ended up taking a very long walk through empty parts of Haifa for much of one Saturday night, during which time it mostly alternated between drizzle and downpour. Even for someone used to living in Seattle, this was a wet night to walk. And though the Checkpoint flyer was in no way protected from the rain, all it did in that ongoing rain was get very wet — on the outside. The fabric is tight enough that most of the water just rolled off; none of the paper, food, or clothing I had stuffed in there at the time saw a drop of rain, and after an hour or so in my hotel room I couldn’t tell it had ever been wet. So I had zero worries about walking in milder rain over the weeks that followed.”

Read the full review at Slashdot.

Update: tombihn.com is up and running

tombihn.com was down for over 4 hours today due to massive amounts of traffic directed to our site from this review of the Checkpoint Flyer over at Slashdot. (More on the review tomorrow.)

We’re now back up and running. Pages may load slowly here or there, but they will load!

Thanks for your patience and offers of help. We have the best customers in the world.

Yes, our site is down.

We’re working on getting it back up ASAP. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please feel free to call us at 1-800-729-9607 – we would be glad to answer any questions you may have. And because you cannot make it through to our site to actually see pictures of our bags, perhaps we can describe them to you over the phone. :(

New Large Cafe colors now shipping…

The Large Cafe Bag is now shipping in the following colors….


Navy/Cayenne

Storm/Sapphire

Sapphire/Steel

Black/Steel

Black/Wasabi