Christmas orders

HI, It's nearly Christmas time. Ron's elves are very busy sewing your panniers and bags, but the post gets really slow at this time so remember to get your orders in in the next 2 weeks to guarantee delivery by Christmas.

Bicycle Film Festival Street Party

Come to the Bicycle Film Festival Street Party on Sunday. Ron's Cathy will be one of the judges of the Bicycle Beauty Pagaent. You might win a Pannier or Legband.

....We all have talents. For some people the honing of talent involves years of research, training and dedication. For others, it involves waking up, scratching their head and thinking 'what will I excel at today?' Here at the BFF, we believe that every bike has a talent, and we are pretty sure (after years of rigorous testing) that no training, study, application or exertion of any kind is required to bring this talent to the world. In fact, we know that ALL YOU HAVE TO DO to uncover your bike's special talent is enter the two of you in the BICYCLE BEAUTY PAGEANT . You won't know what your bike's talent is until it's revealed to you on the catwalk. We've seen it happen. Prizes (and sashes) for second runner up, first runner up and Melbourne's most beautiful bike (and owner). Taking place at the BFF Street Party this Sunday 29 Nov, Cnr Cambridge & Peel Sts Collingwood at 3.30pm....

Canberra has panniers

Wow, Mooble, our sole ACT stockist has jut received their delivery of beautiful panniers. Now you can check out the panniers in person.

Riding to work today

Well I finally rode to work today. I've had a number of reasons for not riding in recent times - my best one is that my business was home based (others included being too pregnant, having a teensy baby with me, and living in a bike unfriendly place). So today it all came together - it nearly came unstuck yesterday when I over inflated my tyres and the front one split. But luckily I had my new old bike (pictured) and it got me here today.

My point is, after that extended intro, that riding to work is great! It is such a perfectly human scaled thing to do. I smiled and waved to several people, they smiled and waved back. I got to see so many trees and plants in their new spring state. I arrived at work quietly and slowly. It was a really great way to start.

I know all you guys know all that, but it's been a while for me and it's great to be back.

don't know about you, but I've stopped buying Bonds...

an excerpt from AftMAg...

"PacBrands chief executive Sue Morphet said yesterday that sales of Bonds underwear, the company's most visible brand because of its association with sporting identities such as Pat Rafter, had suffered a "small dip" after the job cuts were announced.

Other shoppers dumped King Gee clothing because of its connection to the workforce, Morphet said.

But in both cases the impact had lasted only two to three weeks and sales had since recovered, she said.

"It was like we had a family argument and customers didn't like what they were hearing," the PacBrands chief said yesterday, unveiling a loss of $234million for the year.

"But the fact is they have continued to love us, and we've solved our problems."

Morphet said some customers had protested by switching from Bonds to Holeproof, unaware the latter label was also a PacBrands product...."

There are Buy Local campaigns springing up all over the place. This is also why we do what we do - you get what you see with RonDSwan and other small local businesses. It makes us quite mad, and it is hard to easily find replacement products when you're angry with a large company's dealings with its employees and customers.

new vintage A4 bags

We just finished sewing up some very nice vintage fabric A4 bags.

just a thought

maybe it's because I get a tiny amount of sleep every night, but .....

how annoyed do you think the human race would feel if aliens came to earth and made first contact with squid instead of us?

just thinking about the state of the planet and all....