About Buckhorn Bags
Custom Bike Bags for All Adventures
About
Buckhorn was started as an endeavor to create intentional, functional designs to get you outside. Our products are at home out in nature, exploring the beauty that surrounds us. We hope to inspire and support your adventures with high quality gear made right here in the USA.
Why us?
Our packs are sewn with the best technical materials we can get our mitts on, focusing on American-made quality and sources. Our gear incorporates thoughtful features, inspiring color schemes, and multi-use functionality. Designs and patterns are all created in-house with a long life span in mind. All of our products are constructed with double and triple stitching and reinforced stress points.
What’s in a name?
Buckhorn Bags
Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa, commonly referred to as buckhorn cholla, is a cholla native to the Mojave, Sonoran, and Colorado Deserts of North America.
Wait, how do you say it?
“Choy-uh”
Buckhorn is prolific in the desert where we love to recreate. Before I transplanted from the Midwest to New Mexico in 2019, my wife and I had spent some time exploring this great state. One of the images that always stuck with me when I thought of the desert was this beautiful cactus. While living in NM I saw it everywhere; on my commute to work, on trail rides, and out in our favorite places exploring with our dogs. Buckhorns produce flowers in late spring providing pops of bright colors in the otherwise color-mute desert. I thought it fitting to name my company after that which surrounded us then, and it is a sweet reminder of our time in the desert now that we’re back East.
Who is Buckhorn?
Sam
Growing up in the outdoors with family and friends I found a love for nature in all forms at an early age. This passion for the outdoors has allowed me to explore many different avenues of sport from backpacking to climbing, fly fishing to bikepacking. Throughout these disciplines I have always been interested in the gear that allowed me to get outside and how it affected my experience there.
As a carpenter by trade, I have been producing by hand for many years. This naturally translated well to sewing and pattern drafting. I have been bitten by the bug of creating new gear based on my own experience of the outdoors and that of those around me.
I started Buckhorn in Albuquerque, a strange town that is surrounded by vast expanses of cacti, junipers, and beautiful cultures and traditions that have existed there for centuries. My wife and I now are in Fayetteville, Arkansas but will forever be drawn to the desert and our time there.