In her article “How To Safely Cycle in Style”, author Jeanie Lerche Davis recommends Orp to her Living Healthy audience. If this article goes big we will reconsider putting an ad on the Lifetime Channel,. Seriously, thanks Jeanie and Living Healthy!
It was a crisp but sunny Fall day in Portland, Oregon for one of the beloved Sunday Parkways events. These rides are a pleasure for residents where the city shuts downa 5-8 mile loop of neighborhood streets and opens them only for bikes and pedestrians. This year’s SE loop included the new Tillicum Bridge which is exclusive to only Portland’s Orange line, cyclists and pedestrians. Orp was one of the carnies, I mean, vendors along with a Ferret booth and a Breast Milk Trading site – I think…. In any case, it was super fun to see old Orp friends and introduce Orp to some new ones.
Here are some pics:
Its a big day hear, I mean, here at Orpland. Dan Sweet, our Web guru, cut the ribbon on our brand new Storp.
Rumors that the downtown Portland Apple Storp is jealous are surely over blown. Who would compare a website to a brick and mortar?
For some of you, change may be difficult, but we say embrace it. It’s all for the better. Better continuity, more engaging product descriptions and fewer steps mean faster checkouts for you.
Hit that big Orange Storp button and here’s what you can expect to see:
Let us know what you think at info@orpland.com.
So there’s this You Tube blogger up in Toronto. Canada that covers all sorts of tech and he’s also a cyclist.
He contacts us and wants to review Orp. We say, “no problem and send him an Orp and REMORP. This morning we get an email
from Alex and he says his review is done. It’s really great and production value is awesome. I would encourage everyone to subscribe to Alex’s
channel. Here’s the link and here are some scream, I mean, screen shots. I was making a little joke based on the fact Orp, sort of, screams.
Thanks Alex!
Our friends at Gadget Bike in Thailand sent us an awesome Orp sighting with the Princess of Thailand. That’s right, Princess Bajrakitiyabha affectionately known as Princess Pa or Princess Patty (for us mono-linguistic Americans) is riding her Canondale with an Orp at the giant Bike For Mom event. We don’t know if they’re dating or the pair is going by “OrpPa” or really anything – she might even be married in which case I’m sure the two are just friends. No matter what the real story is, over 146,000 riders across Thailand participated. Below are a couple of photos.
Also, all of us at Orp were saddened to hear about the bombing in Bangkok and our best wishes go out to anyone affected by this tragedy.
Thanks to Art at Gadget Bike for the images!
The Museum of Modern Art in NYC, better known as MoMA , has selected Orp for inclusion in its store. This is an incredible honor and Orp will do its best to not be too obnoxious while in the store. That said, if you are visiting MoMA , please make sure to to try one out in the store. Let that Calder Mobile or Eames Lounge know who’s boss.
If you do go to MoMA, you’ll only be able to find Red and Black Orps – like their signature colors.
Yesterday, Orp attended the the 20th annual Portland Bridge Pedal. This events closes down the 11 bridges that cross the Willamette River to cars here in Portland and opens them to only cyclists and walkers. The event draws around 30,000 participants. The weather was perfect in the high 70’s-low 80s. This year, the highlight besides Orp, was Portland’s newest bridge, the Tillicum Crossing (yeah the name blows- one of of our former colleagues had offered Willam-A-Span which was much better).
We had a gazillion new Orp adoptions. Ok, not really a gazillion, but a whole lot of new Orps went out to riders. Below are some images of the new some of the real event’s Orps , riders and the new bridge. Thanks to Portland , the sponsors and everyone who attended( did that sound corporate enough?}.
Orp HQ just got word that the new, new thing must be doing reruns on the internet. Just like reruns of your favorite TV show. Who doesn’t love reliving the Breaking Bad Episode in Season 4 where Walter blows up Gus?
Popular Mechanics had originally published a story they called “10 Ingenious Bike Hacks” (Orp is hardly a hack, but PM is maybe new to the word and wanted to seem cool) back in 2013 and then they just released the same story a couple of days ago.
Maybe its possible Orp and its other 9 brethren were part of a golden era of innovation that still glows bright so repeating this story is all good. All of us at Orp are certainly appreciative of the notice. Of course, a new story on Orp with its REMORP buddy would be good as well and it would be, well, new.
In any case, thanks Popular Mechanics!
Ever influencing proper behavior of it’s male reader population, GQ chose Orp as the proper alert device to have whilst riding one’s bike. Certainly a gentleman can yell, but the risk of overly mucussed saliva errantly spewing over ones attire and spoiling it (especially in the morning phlegm hours) is too high.
Certainly GQ does not need to gush over Orp’s handsomeness as it is clearly apparent in the full page picture. I’m kidding about the full page part. Actually, they were much less “metrosexual” in their article – I added that too.
Orp showed up at the finish of the 200 mile Seattle to Portland ride to congratulate riders and provide Orps to the Orpless. Sure, many of you think this ride is all downhill, but as much as it makes perfect sense, I can assure this is not the case. This was a two day event with the hardest core riders doing the 200 miles in one day. Sure, there is an increased chance of Rhabdo*, but one day-ers received a more exclusive medal at the finish and a better shirt.
The event drew 10,000+ riders and their support staff (families and friends) to take them back to Seattle where they live or drag them home to Portland or wherever they came from. Seriously, like 30,000 people in a NE Portland Park. One of the highlights was one rider, or maybe it was just a guy in the park, had a cockatoo that came over to perch on the Orp display bar. Amazingly, he did not poop on our table- nor did the bird.
*Ok, for those of you that want the scoop on Rhabdo- Rhabdo is short for Rhabdomyolysis and it’s the breakdown of muscle tissue that leads to the release of muscle fiber contents into the blood. These substances are harmful to the kidney (read: frying your kidneys) and will pour blood into your urine.It’s nature’s way of telling you, you kind of over did it. Below is a bag of bloody urine. You’re welcome.
We just received a very interesting email from David Glunter from New York City. David tells us he’s a soon to be 7th grader at the Anderson School. David is likely on the path to medical school and sent us a piece of one of his latest projects, this one on Comparative Anatomy. He wrote saying he was also a big fan of Orp and got his Dad one for Father’s Day. What a great kid- but how is he earning Orp money?
Anyway, he made a clever observation in noting the similarity between a chicken (an Orpington , he points out) and the Orp Smart Horn. Below is the image he sent me.
I just want to point out he grabbed an old Kickstarter image of Orp, I love chickens as well and I’m older so I liked chickens first. Pretty cool though, he put our logo on the page. Thanks David.
First off, I had the most random awesome experience that I want to share with you. I totally saw an Orp bike horn save someone’s life! Car almost turned into a guy on his bike and then this giant horn noise happened and the driver swerved! It was rad.
A.T., Portland, OR