Chika's Prince Bag; What ?!?

I kinda slept on this one...Chika did this quite a while ago, and I immediately set the pic aside to post up, but in classic form it was overlooked. Anyway, the work on this is just sick...and as a crusader of portraiture on bags, I'm personally ecstatic about ...

Emily is Blowing Up !!!

Our all-time favorite designer Emily Glaubinger (she's been designing our tees and event posters for the past few years) moved to S.F a few moths ago and has been turning out some ridiculous work since. Makes sense, since she runs on sun and quesedillas. Anyway, you can check her out here. She is available...

Design-a-bag Contest !!

Brian Howard from the Philadelphia City Paper wants a R.E.Load bag, but he's not entirely sure about doing his own design. So he decided to make an open contest out of it. Help him design his bag and you could be the proud winner of a R.E.Load fun pack: a hip pouch, one of our new belts, a t-shirt, a Fabric Horse lock holster (custom made to fit our 2" belts), and a couple other goodies. check it...

Current ILLEST Bag ever ?

Ashley Steigerwalt is the proud owner of this, R.E.Load East's "bag of the moment". Designed by Ashley's friend Pete Dalkner, and stitched by Gerik Forston. This got pulled off PERFECTLY, further cementing Gerik's claim to "Best applique stitcher on the East Coast". It's safe to say that Gerik is the...

The Face of Kryptonite....

....is me! At least for the time being. They've been updating their site to include short bios and pics of the people who use their products. I'm up on the "bikes" section (which luckily is the main section and thus the home page) with my custom Bilenky S+S coupler track bike. And Donna Tocci (the best rep of any company anywhere) has also put me on the Kryptronite blog. Amusingly enough, the pic...

SE Racing x R.E.Load !!!

SE racing called us up a little bit before Interbike to see if we could make some bags for their new 2008 lineup. Designed by Bruce Freehoff from SE, these are the samples we came up with for the show. Hopefully SE will go ahead and have us make a limited run for the upcoming season. If you're feeling...

Uwishunu Interview

I guess October is officially "Interview Roland Month". Here's one by Jess Keating, on Uwishu...

Ro gets interviewed on Vulture Droppings

I got interviewed on Vulture Droppings, Gyro's new trendspotting website. The interview was conducted by Annette Monnier from Copy Gallery . Check it out he...

R.E.Load East on Vimby.com !

Andrew Watson came through and interviewed me for this spot on the brand new website...check it o...

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check out this new video from the Trackstar c...

Video: Monster Track 8

Check it out (sent courtesy of NYC's Chris Kim): Monster Track 8 Video* IN case you didn't know, Monster Track is the premiere fixed-only event in the world. We've been providing the first-place bag for it for about five years now. Congratulations Alfred, and props to Shino holding it down yet again in a brand new city.....

Ride for Rwanda !

Bikes To Rwanda’s aim is to provide cargo bicycles to co-operative coffee farmers in Rwanda. The goal is to improve quality of life in these communities through a bike workshop and maintenance program that provides transportation resources for basic needs and enhances production of quality coffee.They're...

Race of Pain in D.C. !!

Josh from D.C. is throwing a race on August 18th. And R.E.Load is sponsoring with a custom bag! Direct from the organizer: "The theme of the alleycat is Pain. We will be touring the most painful hills of washington DC."So...if pain and profit is your thing, this is the race for you! The afterparty...

New Features Outlined

This is our new "organizer pocket" option. It's got 3 pen slots and two slots for pda's/ipods/whatever, and it's a $10 add-on.This is our new "FBI pocket" option. That stands for "flat back inside". It sits on the rear interior wall and spans the whole width of the bag. The closure velcro also spans...

Seventh Annual Bicycle Film Festival

The Seventh Annual Bicycle Film Festival has moved on from NYC to Paris, and we've been invited to particpate in the accompanying art show! It's entitled titled "Joyride", and is hosted by Collette. The opening is slated for July 26th, featuring work by Steve MacDonald, Taliah Lempert, Peter Sutherland,...

Let the Collabo's Begin!

Presenting a new R.E. Load bags and Cadence Clothing collaboration! These are amazing frame pads! Each one is an original! These are all printed/painted on recyled sail cloth (that's right, the actual sail from a sailboat!), by Dustin Klein. The other side is black cordura. This is a limited edition...

Fly Eagles, Fly....

Ok, so this has nothing really to do with the Philadelphia Eagles, but by law, as a 12-year resident of the city, I am required to reference them as much as possible. Anyway....this bag was made by Gerik Forston a few weeks ago. It's getting pretty hard to be modest about some of our stuff, but since...

Shop Gentei - "Hey Riders" results

I heard that "Hey Riders" was tons of fun. Check it out for yourself though! Go peep the Shop Gentei websi...

Austin Wins (again).

We made a bag for the Rumble in the Bronx race that took place in NYC a few weeks ago. Suprise...Austin won a race! Who would have ever guessed (does sarcasm translate properly on a blog?). Anyway, as usual i missed the race due to work commitments, but Kevin Dillard from the Demoncats (D.C.) was present...

My New Bilenky (pt. 2)

I took a pic a long time ago of my new Bilenky track frame, and noted my intentions to make it "the greenest bike on the planet". Well, it's been built for a while and I've finally got some pics of it complete. S & S couplers make it possible to take this thing apart and put it back together within...

The Lucky 7's Race

Atlanta. Seven's. Texas Hold 'em. I was really honestly trying to work out a way i could make it to this race, but it's just not gonna be possible. It's unfortunate for me, because these guys told me a bit about what's gonna be going on, and it sounds like a TON of fun. But just because I can't make...

Rocky V Race !

The worst movie in the series might just be the best iteration of the classic race ever to take place. This series technically began in the late mid 90's; Mike Daily resurrected it a few years back and like every other amazing event that takes place on an annual basis, it's been getting bigger and bigger....

The New ECMC's

Whitesnake (along with a host of others) from NYC has been planning something special for a while...I'll let him fill you in on it:"As some of you know, last summer I put for Brooklyn to host the 2007 European Cycle Messenger Championship. I had a surprising amount of crowd support, right up until...

Le Tour De Le District 2007

Straight from the mouth (keyboard?) of Demoncat John comes this reminder about the upcoming, self-proclaimed "race of the season". That season being the summer, or course....and actually, not counting championship races. well, you know what we mean. Just don't miss this if you live anywhere remotely...

Get Ready to Rumble !!!

Straight from Chris Kim (one of the NYC Goldsprint organizers and tireless promoter) comes news of the 4th installment of the "Rumble Through the Bronx" alleycat:"the Urban Messenger Militia proudly presents: RUMBLE THRU THE BRONX 4 Year to year favorite Rumble Thru the Bronx returns for its fourth...

Shop Gentei Alleycat in Late June !

We're starting to get better about promoting alleycats (other than ours) that we're also sponsoring. Of course, it becomes a whole lot easier when the organizers are on point enough to get all their flyers and sponsors settled away in good time before the actual event! In any case, Oliver from Shop...

Harlan's Roots Alleycat !

The North American Cycle Courier Championships are taking place during Memorial Day weekend, but just because you can't make it out to SF doesn't mean you can't go to a great race! Rachel is throwing a monster alleycat of her own on May 26th, and we're one of the sponsors. Unfortunately, we're also...

Ride of Silence.

From Ray Scheinfeld of the Philadelphia Bicycle Coalition:The Ride of Silence is scheduled to take place Wednesday, May 16 – 6:45 P.M. The purposes of this silent ride are to honor cyclists killed/injured in motor vehicle related accidents and to raise awareness about the rights of cyclists to ride the roads. The ride is being held in Philadelphia for the second year and in its 4th year since its...

Article in Temple University Press

We got a little writeup in Temple's paper about a month ago....check it out h...

J Dilla Tribute Bag !

This is the second bag up in my "Musician's Series" (you can check out the James Brown tribute bag I made a few months ago on this blog as well). J Dilla was my absolute favorite producer EVER. He changed the face of both hip hop and r&b, and chances are, he might be one of your favorites too, and...

April Fool's Race 2007

This year was the seventh annual iteration of our April Fool's event, and we're still just recovering from it. Part of that is due to the fact that we also expanded production to a new space during the same period that we were organizing the race...still, nothing could have really prepared us for the...

James Brown Tribute Bag

The Godfather of Soul. The Hardest Working Man in Show Business. Soul Brother Number One. A few weeks after the passing of music legend James Brown, I decided that I needed to do a tribute bag to the man responsible for changing the course of music in general, as well as inspiring a future generation...