Hudsonic, of the Small Wheel Society, visited the Carradice works recently and posted pictures in a Flickr Set.

Philosophy InTrans pannier

Velouria, writing in her ‘Lovely Bicycle’ blog, reports on her time with Philosophy bags. She summarizes:

Philosophy panniers are high quality, well though-out, versatile and classic products that are well worth their price and are unlikely to disappoint.

Here at Wallbike, we sold out of our first order of Philosophy bags surprisingly quickly. We are waiting for the improved 2012 version to go into production.

We were working a little bike shop just outside of Seattle. Every once in a while we would see a guy go by in some kind of pedal-powered creation that was equal parts radical, innovative, and homebrewed. Eventually the guy stopped in, looking for something, and we got to know Joe Kochanowski a little. We were knocked out by Joe’s  fantastic creations. We were impressed with the creativity Joe put into his bikes, Joe’s down-to-earth personality, and his singular focus on developing a state-of-the-art recumbent. Now, twenty years later, we were talking about those days and we wondered if Joe was still working on his bikes. Looks like he is.