Sweet. Swobo is coming back.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Loved their stuff back in the day and was bummed when they closed up shop. Now they're coming back...cool:

http://bikemag.com/news/newsarchive/051805_swobo/

and

http://bikemag.com/news/newsarchive/051605_SWOBO/

and

www.swobostore.com

[wintermittent]

Seconded. Tim Parr and his wooly goodness most definitely rock. I wore my old Swobo jersey to death and can't wait to see what's new.

[shirk]

Swobo stuff was soo ultra cool in my eyes back when I first started riding. Good to see them making a come back. Will be looking forward to seeing the wool line.

[freshies]

yessssssss! my 6+ yr old Swobo wool cycling socks are begging to be retired...

[cj001f]

Bump because http://www.swobo.com is open just in time for your Xmas shopping pleasure

[Greydon Clark]

Fast forward to Fall of 2004, Tim partners with Rob Roskopp to re-launch the Swobo brand and form a new company. After spending most of the year deciding which shade of blue is best…Swobo was launched back into the market in November, 2005.

Rob Roskopp = OG pro skater

[marshalolson]

swobo

very cool.

[freshies]

greatest fucking jerseys and socks in the world! mine are on their deathbed. i know what i want for XMas! They are back!

http://www.swobo.com/default.aspx

[cj001f]

From the Piton
http://www.thepiton.com/2006/07/press_conferenc.html

TIM PARR: Mike, can we get another round here, please…Thank you.

So, here we go…Starting in Spring of 2007, Swobo will be manufacturing and distributing bikes. And as you might imagine Swobo bikes won’t be just any bikes. We will be injecting the same performance design vibe that guides our apparel designs into our bike designs. We at Swobo have a vision of what our bikes will be…we want a bike that will create a quantum shift in the way that young, urban dwellers think of bikes. Throwing your leg over a bike has got to be made “cool”…for a lack of any better word.

[Greydon Clark]

"Jesus Christ, people…ok, look we’ll do a recumbent, single speed, 29 incher, plus it will work like one of those Trikke scooter things…with Bio Pace."

[scoober]

That just seems like some veiled excuse as to why they have changed their business plan to include selling out to yupsters.

If people can't figure out why throwing your leg over a bike right now is "cool" then fuck 'em.

[powstash]

Rob Roskopp = OG pro skater

You dug deep for that one old man. I knew that name sounded familiar to me. My buddy Bob had that board in the Jr. High years. I remember checking out that deck at "That Bike Shop" in Tualatin, OR. Wow, memory lane. [/thread hijack]

[Tap]

Rob Roskopp....as in the owner of Santa Cruz Bicycles?

[BLOOD SWEAT STEEL]

Yea. Same guy^

I used to have the Roskopp eyeball deck back in the day. Who wants to touch me?

+1 for teh return of the wooly goodness. A 40mph tree branch shredded my first Swobo jersey into an early retirement. I'm fkn stoked for the new stuff.

[Rontele]

sucks the tshirts only go up to a size large and won't fit a leviathan like me

[wintermittent]

Yup, same Rob. Santa Cruz aquired the Swobo name in 2000 or so when Swobo went under... Tim Parr bought back into it to restart the company.

[MarsB]

I used to have the Roskopp eyeball deck back in the day. Who wants to touch me?

Man, that takes me back! Roskopp's graphic changed every year, as the monster got closer. The 'Eye' was the last in the series, I'm pretty sure.\

[cj001f]

"Jesus Christ, people…ok, look we’ll do a recumbent, single speed, 29 incher, plus it will work like one of those Trikke scooter things…with Bio Pace."

Sweet! A Swobo Rickshaw!

[freshies]

Swobo rules: period. they are "keeping it real" in the truest sense, trying to get everyone stoked on riding bikes: urban, single speed, MTB, road, whatever - they support it and are into it. Plus, they are trying to "do the right thing" with all their gear: all organic farming and materials, enviornmentally sound products, donating 1% of profits to green groups, etc.

They are very active locally here in the Marin and SF bike scenes. With the bike gig, they hired Sky Yeager, one of the coolest women in the industry, who proviously was Bianchi's North American head of design. She was the one that created all their single speed and cruiser lines, etc.

Her and Tim are cool peeps, plus their gear is the shit. Represent!