The Dogcart Story...
Dogcart and The Bike Sack was created out of a single need... to keep my
very special Orbea Orca clean and protected while transporting it to
various places of physical punishment and beauty.
Hi - I'm Greg Posten, President, founder and a little crazy about my
bike. I started out my two wheel life like many of the rest of you
with Dad pushing me down the driveway and of course getting a few
skinned knees along the way. As I grew older I lost touch with my bike
for a while until the 90's came along and I discovered Mt. Biking. I
was hooked. Though, this was before all the fancy shocks and disk
brakes this was Mt. Biking raw, the washboards would get so bad that my
friends and I would tape our wrists up so that we could make it to the
end of the trail. Once I had kids and my time became more limited I
discovered the joys of the road. The speed, the precision of a pace
line and the social aspect of working together as a team. I met other
riders in the area who taught, encouraged and pushed me to be a better
rider (Thank you White Oaks Cycling Club of San Carlos, CA aka the 8AM
riders -- shameless plug ). Then came the centuries, the double
centuries and now the road races.
Your asking... How does this make a bike bag???
As I upgraded my bike and traveled more with it. I always felt my poor
bike was a little exposed sitting back there on the rack all alone
dealing with the road grime and dirt, out in the open where everyone
could see it. I also got tired of trying to stuff my bike into a
garbage bag when we I put my bike into that back of my buddies SUV.
Seemed very wrong to put a perfectly good bike into a garbage bag. I
needed something to throw over it, something that would keep the grime
away from it and the inside of the car but not something that would
take an engineering degree and 2 _ hours to get on and take off.
Something that I could use everyday that had to be easy to use and not
cost much. I went on a search... I found nothing that fit the bill. It
was either the ultimate in bicycle protection, come wind, water,
hurricane or nuclear disaster nothing was getting through this bag or
it had me scratching my head asking, "you want HOW MUCH for a bike cover?".
That's when I decided to make my own. At first I just wanted it for me.
I reached deep into the past and dug up everything I could remember from
Jr. High home economics (I took it for the food, really) and pulled out
my wife's sewing machine and stayed up one night till way past my bed
time and turned out something that, well, resembled, sort of The Bike
Sack. It really wasn't very pretty with string hanging everywhere and
jagged edges. But it did get me thinking that maybe just maybe there
were other people like myself that would want something like this, but I
knew if I was going to get there I needed some professional help.
This was harder to find than one would think. Knowing nothing about the
textile industry I started calling around and place after place would
tell me that a) oh, we can't work with stretchy fabric (go figure) or
b) how many oceangoing cargo containers-worth can we make for you?
Needless to say I did find some help to first make a real prototype
with patterns and all and also found a way to manufacture it in
reasonable quantities and reasonable prices, though believe me, if any
of you out there need a cargo container full of them... I can deliver it
to you... NO PROBLEM : ) That gets us to now. The introduction of The
Bike Sack is the first product from Dogcart but it won't be the last.
There will be many more to come. I hope you use and abuse The Bike
Sack and tell your friends and family where you got it. I am committed
to making an excellent product for a reasonable price and to give you
the best customer service possible, since that seems to me a lost art
these days.
Thanks for reading and ride safe out there.
Greg Posten
CEO, President
Dogcart Bicycle Products, Inc.
PS. If you have a bike event that you love... drop us a line maybe I'll
get the 8am riders to come out and take a pull or two.
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