by Shellback6 | Apr 29, 2021 | Featured
Version H Shellback Prototype: Reflective Tiger Stripes! GrüneStrasse Backpacks Open for Business! (Fairfax, VA) That was our triumphant and optimistic headline in July 2020. After 20 months of designing, refining, testing, rebuilding, and re-thinking the Shellback...
by Shellback6 | Mar 16, 2021 | Featured
Concept Sketch for the Shellback Bike to Work Backpack in 2006 Product Name was the BikPäk; Company Name was Ümlaut Every Company Has An Origin Story (Fairfax, VA) Prior to my retirement from the Marine Corps in 2017, my wife had gone on Leave Without Pay (LWOP) four...
by Shellback6 | Jan 27, 2021 | Featured
Have you ever thought about Biking to Work only to get frustrated that there is no way to transport your work clothes crease-free, not to mention all the other workday items? GrüneStrasse founder Aaron Weiss was in the same predicament nearly 20 years ago, leading...
by Shellback6 | Sep 15, 2020 | Featured
Five Key Steps to Embrace the Bicycle Lifestyle If you are one of the thousands that discovered, or re-discovered, the joy of biking during the COVID shutdown, welcome to the Bicycle Lifestyle. You have found that euphoric feeling of riding a bicycle and how regular...
by Shellback6 | Jul 30, 2020 | Featured
Which comes first, the bike commuter or the infrastructure? Do riders emerge because the route to work is safer, or does the route become safer because Bike to Work commuters demand it? The answer, as you’d expect, is “it depends.” It depends on the region of the...
