Random questions to which you seek an answer

[Giles]

@jimmy:

the only thing i can find about "Free Bee" brand is that it's one under "the works" company. is it sill around?

The name and the concept exist.  No products under it at the moment….........

[jimmy]

@Giles:

The name and the concept exist.  No products under it at the moment….........

ouh good, i really like the 2 bike and jean logo. any chance these two would just merge? IH with that logo.

[Giles]

If you mean this:

We did:

But when Levi's got heavy handed a few years ago, one of the things that we (the same as a number of other Japanese jeans companies) had to do was give up was "any image of a pair of jeans being pulled apart by 2 animate or inanimate objects".  We complied, some did not.

Our view now, is that even if Levi's stopped their strong arming tactics, we have no desire to even parody them.

[jimmy]

@Giles:

Our view now, is that even if Levi's stopped their strong arming tactics, we have no desire to even parody them.

thats exactly what i am talking about. looks real good

i heard about the arcs but didn't know they came down on these too, i guess "imitation is the greatest form of flattery" did not apply here. Especially when its of a higher standard then they're producing…...

out of curiosity is there any other patch designs for IH?

[FurattoHeddo]

Does anyone have any 1st hand experience with these bags/rucks? Seems like a brand with an IH mentality/approach, if you will… http://www.contextclothing.com/brand.php?brand=Goruck

[DougNg]

Never had any experience with this company. I occassionally use a military style pack

http://www.tripleaughtdesign.com/Equipment/Bags-And-Packs/FAST-Pack-EDC

TAD's stuff is top notch, built to last, and if you manage to break it, they'll replace it for free

I've also heard that the guys at TAD are IH fans

[Chris]

@FurattoHeddo:

Does anyone have any 1st hand experience with these bags/rucks? Seems like a brand with an IH mentality/approach, if you will… http://www.contextclothing.com/brand.php?brand=Goruck

Heard about Goruck when I was looking into a race, the Tough Mudder in Austin.  Basically, to make the race more "fun" the guys in the Goruck team fill their packs with bricks beer and run the race.  Looks like they had a good time.

I'm guessing their packs are pretty tough, and they do offer a lifetime guarantee and even a repair service for packs that have been roughed up a bit too harshly.

[Jii]

Does The works in Hachioji accept Visa payments or is it cash only?

[riffblaster general]

anyone else having issues with being automatically logged out of the forum?

[thewickett]

happened to me this morning… didn't think much of it and logged back in. Hasn't happened since for me.

edit: just happened to me again!

[hectic]

@ RG, elaborate further please? If its an error it will be sorted of course.

[riffblaster general]

i just stay logged into the forum so i dont need to enter a password every time i come to it, but twice today i returned to the forum and was logged out and i couldn't figure out why.

[elclintor]

I've had to log in twice today..

not sure what's going on..

[DougNg]

Been happening to me too

Usually I never have to log in on the same computer, it's automatically got me logged in

I've also experienced a lot of slowdown around 10PM EST lately too

[hectic]

Ok, we will refer internally. Thanks for feedback.

[riffblaster general]

thanks!

[elclintor]

just had to log in for the third time. 

[Geo]

not experienced that log-out scenario but nearly always get asked to try again when posting a reply or similar . . . . like now for example!!!!

[Guest]

Its been happening to me too every time

[riffblaster general]

yeah just happened to me again too.