Eric’s Video Reviews: Aeronaut, Tri-Star, Western Flyer

Eric has four of our travel bags — two Aeronauts, a Tri-Star, and a Western Flyer — and he’s made several videos about them designed to help you choose which bag is right for you.

In this, the first video, Eric shows the Aeronaut in both 1050d ballistic nylon and 400d Dyneema®/420d nylon ripstop and explains the differences between the two materials. Also shown are Aeronaut Packing Cubes.

We’ll post Eric’s other videos next week, but if you (understandably) don’t want to wait, here are links to the other two: Tri-Star and Western Flyer and Western Flyer.

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Discuss Eric’s videos on our Forums
Aeronaut, Tri-Star, and Western Flyer

TB Crew | 25 April 2013 3:18 pm

(more) Great photos from maverick

Bye!

“inside the aeronaut are 4 changes of warm clothes for me (heading to the uk), 2 changes of workout clothes, swimming trunks, a thicker book, and two 3d clear organizer pouches with toiletries. i’ve packed in a wf sized packing cube backpack (everything but socks and underwear) and a small packing cube (for the socks and underwear).”

aeronaut and synapse 25 stack nicely in the overhead bin of this 777-200!

“the aeronaut and synapse 25 stack nicely in the overhead bin of this 777-200!”

Posted by maverick in the Forums.

See also: the Aeronaut, the Synapse 25

TB Crew | 25 April 2013 11:43 am

In stock: Medium Cafe Bag, Travel Tray, 3D Mesh Organizer Cube, more

Thanks to our crew, the following bags are back in stock and ship within one business day:

Travel Tray, all colors

Medium Cafe Bag, all colors

Smart Alec Upper Modular Pocket, all colors

3D Mesh Organizer Cube, all colors, including new Iberian, Wasabi, Ultraviolet, and Steel Dyneema/nylon

Handle Loop w/Snaphook

Guardian DF Light Strap-Mount

TOM BIHN Medium Cafe Bag in Steel Dyneema/nylonMedium Cafe Bag in Steel Dyneema/Steel.

TB Crew | 25 April 2013 11:15 am

Video: Tom talks design and build

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TB Crew | 23 April 2013 8:42 am

Loaded Pocketz reviews the Synapse 25

Loaded Pocketz Synapse 25 backpack review

“The new Tom Bihn Synapse 25 is the larger 25 liter/1526 cubic inch version of the Synapse (now called Synapse 19). For those familiar with the original pack, the Synapse 25 keeps much of the original design. The multiple pockets, which don’t cannibalize space from the main compartment, are still there. So is the 1000D Cordura Nylon exterior, 400D Dyneema Riptop interior, water resistant YKK Aquaguard zippers and bulletproof (made in the U.S.A.) build quality. In essence, Tom has taken everything good about the original Synapse and incorporated it into a larger package with some tweaks to make it even more user friendly. Let’s take a closer look.”

Read the full review at Loaded Pocketz. See also: the Synapse 25.

TB Crew | 22 April 2013 4:11 pm

In stock: Synapse 25, Packing Cubes, Small Cafe + more

Thanks to our Seattle crew, the following bags are now in stock and ready to ship within one business day:

Aeronaut Packing Cubes

Small Cafe Bag, all colors

Cache with Rails, all sizes

Synapse 25, all colors but Navy/Iberian and Steel Dyneema/Wasabi, which are available for backorder and ship by late June.

The new Side Effect is ready to ship in Wasabi Dyneema/Wasabi. Other colors — Black/Steel and Black/Iberian are new and available for pre-order while Black/Wasabi, Aubergine/Wasabi, and Steel Dyneema/Wasabi have sold out of the first run and are available for backorder and ship by late May.

Key Strap, 16″, in Ultraviolet Dyneema/nylon and Wasabi Dyneema/nylon

Handle Loop, both varieties

Synapse 25 backpack by TOM BIHNSynapse 25 in Olive/Steel.

TB Crew | 22 April 2013 9:15 am

New: 3D Clear Organizer Cubes in Dyneema/nylon

TOM BIHN 3D Clear Organizer Cube3D Clear Organizer Cube in Wasabi Dyneema/nylon.

Our 3D Clear Organizer Cube — a one-compartment organizer cube with clear front and back panels designed to meet the TSA 3-1-1 liquids-program requirements — is now available in Wasabi, Iberian, Steel, and Ultraviolet 200d Dyneema/nylon. Our ultralight 200 Dyneema®/nylon fabric — used mainly as a lining for our travel bags and backpacks — is custom produced just for us by a mill in Japan. Its great tear strength and surprising abrasion resistance come from the grid of white Dyneema® yarns woven approximately every .25″ / 6 mm parallel to the X and Y axes (the weft and warp), forming the distinctive ripstop pattern (the Dyneema® yarns don’t accept dye and hence remain their natural white color). Now you can choose a 3D Clear Organizer Cube made out of the same material as the lining of your Aeronaut, Tri-Star, Co-Pilot or Western Flyer travel bag.

TB Crew | 19 April 2013 5:52 am

Tizi: New Side Effect!

“Just picked it up today at the store after pre-ordering it. I can fit my iPhone, wallet, Google Nexus 7 in its case, pocket knife and a writing pad. It can easily fit more, but for illustration purposes this is what I put in it as soon as I got it home. I also got it with the waist strap. I will post up come pictures when I get that set up. Thanks TB Crew, this is the greatest little bag ever!”

TOM BIHN Side Effect photos by Tizi

Posted by Tizi in the Forums — see the full thread (with more photos) here. See also: the Side Effect.

TB Crew | 18 April 2013 2:57 pm

The new Handle Loop

Handle Loop w/O-ringClear Organizer Wallet clipped to a Handle Loop w/O-ring.

The Handle Loop is a loop of webbing that allows you to add a grab handle or wrist loop to many of our Organizer Pouches and Cubes. Its length is fully adjustable thanks to a clever slide part that provides enough friction to keep the Handle Loop snugged around your wrist: even if pushed to the end of the Handle Loop, it won’t come off. $3. In stock and ships within one business day. And available in two versions:

Handle Loop with Snaphook: This version, with a small-but-tough swivel snaphook, is designed to clip to a 3D Clear, Mesh, or Dyneema®/nylon Organizer Cube, a Side Effect, your keys, a knife, a multitool, or a flashlight.

Handle Loop with O-ring: June, our Vice President of Production, came up with this one — it has an O-ring instead of a snaphook at the end, so it’s designed to clip to any of our accessories that already have a snaphook, such as our Organizer Pouches.

Handle Loop with SnaphookHandle Loop w/Snaphook clipped to a 3D Clear Organizer Cube in Ultraviolet Dyneema/nylon.

TB Crew | 16 April 2013 5:28 pm

Introducing the new Side Effect

The Side Effect is a bag that has evolved directly from user feedback (mostly from folks on our Forums). The original Side Effect was a small waist pack: you guys were cutting off the waist straps, attaching Key Straps, and envisioning new ways to use the bag which we hadn’t. Other mods — more O-rings, different label placement, a removable waist belt — were not DIY-able for you all. We decided it was time to catch up, and then some.

Side Effect. $40. Available for pre-order; ships by April 19th. Colors: Black/Wasabi, Aubergine/Wasabi, Navy/Iberian, Wasabi Dyneema/Wasabi, and Steel Dyneema/Wasabi. Discuss the Side Effect in our Forums.

TOM BIHN Side Effect

TOM BIHN Side Effect

TOM BIHN Side Effect

TOM BIHN Side Effect

TB Crew | 16 April 2013 1:22 pm