Pic of the Day

I’m feeling really stoked on this whole blog/website thing so I figure I’ll spill my guts on here ‘til I tire of it. I’ve been doing some brainstorming lately and there should be some new stuff coming out here in the next month.

I’ve been working on a euro bumpered E30 design, which should be making an appearance in some shape or form similar to this in a PreOrder on r3vlimited.com and e30tech.com within the next week or two.

New decals and other small merch in the works as well when I can finish them up and get them ordered. Couple of the items will remain top secret ‘til they are in stock. 8380 always enjoys being mysterious.

A friend also brought up the idea of making a page with the previous designs we’ve done for old time’s sake, and it sounds like a good idea to me, so I’ll work on that too.

So I just got back Sunday night from Portland, OR visiting a good friend that I grew up with in York, PA. We cruised around a lot in his recently acquired Suzuki Samurai. It takes a minute to get used to them, but anyone who has driven a Mk1 would understand. Horribly underpowered, full of rattles, generally unsafe for highway use, you know the drill. I wasn’t sold at first, but after doing a little research on them, then seeing THIS I am totally sold. I don’t know if I like the truck or the soundtrack more. Perfect harmony. I might have to add these little tanks to the spring line. I need one.

Shaun does all kinds of cool stuff out there in Portland. Besides being a wiley small game hunter, a master of primitive skills, a great chef and a tender lover, he can ride the shit out of anything that even remotely resembles a bicycle. And he also hand makes some BA cycling caps from recycled materials. We’ve got some plans to do a collab later this spring, send him harassing emails if you’re interested in that prospect.

-Ethan

The website is finally a one stop shop for your 8380 fix! There’s a ton of new developments comin’ down the pike in the next few months, and I’ll do my best to keep everyone up to date here. We’re going to be expanding the apparel line with some new models, and filling out the product line with some more cool junk too, pretty exciting stuff! Depending on what time of year it is, what we’ve been up to and where we’ve been, we’ll yack about all of it here.

Take some time to check it out and see how things work!