02 / Company & ownership
Behind the brand.
Bike messenger Rob Honeycutt began sewing bags in San Francisco under the name Scumbags. Renamed Timbuk2, the company turned the three-panel messenger into an urban-carry signature and later added backpacks and travel bags.
Sources · previous brand research
- 1989
The first messenger bags are sewn in San Francisco.
- 1990
The company adopts the Timbuk2 name.
- Today
Custom messenger production remains a distinct part of a mixed global range.



