Mission Bicycles
876 Hampshire Street
San Francisco, CA, 94110
john@missionbicycle.com
It's been a really exciting and productive week. We sent a heads up email out to a lot of friends and have gotten a ton of great feedback. It's really something to have friends as excited as we are about the project. Thanks so much to everyone for the support and replies that we received.
And.... we've had three firm orders for bikes (!!!) which we find really amazing considering nobody has seen them yet (including us ;p). For our first run in October we are building five, selling four, and keeping one around to show while we make the next batch. This means that we are one order away from selling out all our first run of bikes. We can't thank our first customers enough. It's really amazing to have friends willing to take a significant bet on us and the idea of Mission Bicycles before it's a full reality.
But -- now the pressure is really on.
The Shop
Here's the thing - Mission Bicycles for now is housed in the Dog Patch. If we had it our way we'd be in a store-front right on Valencia Street, but there are a whole ton of bikes to build and sell before that happens. So for now we are sharing space with our cousin company, Chapter Three, in their awesome Loft space on the other side of Potrero Hill. It's not that bad really, the office space is really nice (14' ceilings, huge windows, etc.) and the bike ride commute from the Mission is nice.
Here is our address if you want to stop by and check it out:
2325 3rd St, Ste #319,
San Francisco CA,
94107
It was another busy week of construction for the shop. The build/assembly area is almost complete. The workbenches are in place, the pegboard is mounted and the tools are flowing onto the wall. Earlier this week, I made a run to a few different stores to gather storage containers. I put a bit of thought into storage and I think the shop will be very intuitive to work in and with any luck the it will stay clean. The last big thing that will go in the shop is a large shelving structure that will be above the benches, about eight feet off the ground, and extend all the way to the ceiling.
There will be more information on the way, and we'll updating the flickr as well, so check back often.
Thanks a bunch everyone!