Timbuk2’s Dolores Cooler Bag Makes For The Best Bike Messenger Gig
Carrying a cooler full of Pabst into a job interview may seem like bad form, but hauling a twelve-pack in a Dolores Cooler shaped like a messenger bag is just the thing to show off your go-getting attitude.
The pack is waterproof, comes with a built-in metal bottle opener on the strap and is fully insulated to keep coldness in. And when you’re done drinking, it’s a perfect portable container for vomiting into. [Timbuk2 via Boing Boing Gadgets]
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@Joshua Willis: Crumpler Bags names half their products after their ability to haul alcohol, and measures their carrying capacity in six-packs.
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And honestly, you could probably do this with any Timbuk2, Chrome or Crumpler in a pinch.
The Chrome messenger I had in 10th grade (7 years ago) could do this....
It looks mighty nice though. I wonder if they had to eliminate internal pockets since they would get soaked and not dry easily.
Pabst is funny, you know. Because the hipsters buy $200 bags and fill them with cheap beer and nothingness. But at least they look hip doing so.
My Chrome roll top pack will be a great way to get my Boddingtons ale and pub glass to golden gate when I return to SF in August.
Adam Hammerman
@anti-hello-kitty: Yup! Same as every other bike messenger bag in existence...
Seriously, have you even seen a messenger bag w/o a zipper for the main compartment? I certainly havent.
TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H.
Great Lakes Commodore Perry IPA. And a good bourbon. And don't drink and bike, wink...
TatumHippocampu
@crsh1976: Count me in either. These bags are indestructible!
Stupid Hipsters, putting six dollars of Pabst into a $110 bag.
@smackswell: The main compartment on this thing is zippered so your ice/beer/sushi doesn't fall out...
anti-hello-kitty
@Super Moose: I like PBR sometimes, but I'd stock it with Carlsberg...
anti-hello-kitty
@Joshua Willis: SOMA "Bum" portable toilet.
Giants "Coolio" smuggle bag
anti-hello-kitty
On the flip side, Chrome bags are waterproof as well.
Love Timbuk2 messenger bags, had mine for 5 years now and it's still in pretty good shape; they can take some serious abuse.
crsh1976
Did it have to be PBR?
@Joshua Willis: As a resident of the tenderloin, not everyone here smokes crack but then again, not everyone in the Marina is a douche
Adam Jackson
@Super Moose: Blue Moon? Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!
SlinkyDink
@Joshua Willis: Don't forget the Castro Fanny Pack!
SlinkyDink
@telefoto:
And when I say PRB, I mean PBR! I've got Pabst Blue Ribbon on my mind....
telefoto
@Super Moose: harp, the rerelease of schlitz, boddington's...the list goes on...
@Joshua Willis: lmfao!
Jonathan Khoo
I love how it's color matched to a PRB can! USA!
telefoto
i thought her name was Mulva
mikereynaga
Lets begin listing all the Beers the would be infinatly better to put in said cooler then Pabst Blues Ribbon. I'll start with Blue Moon.
It took them this long to figure out that if their bags are waterproof from the outside then the opposite must be true?
I used to work at the UMass Bike Co-op way back when and we sold these bags in our shop. When the first shipment from came in It took one of the guys about one minute to deduce we now had portable coolers for Magic Hat #9's on our rides.
Hmmm, maybe it never caught on back then with the mainstream because we used brakes and gears.
mayberry
@lucidlyseen: maybe it's sold as an accessory
Weihovah
@Eruanno: you ARE writing it down.
@undefined: The company IS based in San Francisco and you guys are a bunch of hippies so probably so.
Sooooo....when you fall and land on it and a can bursts open, it fills up and explodes and possibly maims you? i'll take 3!
Huh, bottle opener... actually, I want my bag to have a whole lot of built-in little things.
Swiss army knife, bottle opener, an inflatable boat, an unfoldable tent, a mini-LCD screen, Wi-Fi hotspot... hold on, I need to write this shit down.
You got the same email I got apparently.
tande04
LOL, love the fact that they named it after the park in SF where all the hipsters sit around and drink their PBR's all day.
Upcoming products to include:
Hunter's Point Concealed Carry Holster
Tenderloin Crack Kit Knapsack
Marina "douche" Bag with integrated popped collar
Joshua Willis
@allenjordan: More like, daily.
ibelli
damn I wish my Timbuk2 had that bottle opener
lucidlyseen
I'm sure this was named after Dolores Park in San Francisco where EVERYONE drinks beer there. Its a weekly ritual for most people that live in SF to go there on the weekend.
Dolores? As in, San Francisco Dolores park hipsters? I think they'd be better to make some kind of attachment to put your weed in... I'm just saying. Dolores, ya know?
ibelli