With new sewing machine’s in the house the Trike project had to step a side for a while. I have had some ideas growing, tumbling around in my head for some years now, and with the machines I got the possibility to give them a try.
The first one is a bivy-sack, or you can say a mini-tent.
I have been using a North Face Roadrunner during my trips in Italy, but after that one of my son’s used it for a hike it had 11 small holes,…that’s life. It really didn’t matter since the tent was extremely bad, constructed without any functional ventilation.
Now I have rebuilt it, used parts from it to build my bivy-sack and for bad weather, a super-light “hood”, self-standing, that I can use if it is raining.
For the bivy-sack I used the heavy textile from the bottom of the tent, and the zip’s. I ordered seam-tapes to get the seam’s water-proof.
The whole bivy, including the “hood”, has a weight of 1 kg.
I will use it in many different situations, but the idea came up when I struggled in the darkness to reach mountain summits before the sunrise in order to get that magic light. With this light bivouac I can sleep at the summit and get both the dawn and the dusk.
The second idea was a idea to recycle material and make new products from old textiles/leather. First out is this sun-protection for the laptop. Living in Italy I often have wondered if a sun-hood would make it possible to use the lap outside during sunshine, and here it is, and it works, the goat-leather-hood for my lap-top.
I used a 30 years old goat-leather jacket and some cordura-textile to get it ready, together with some old webbing that I have after a old back pack.
This is the first of three products that I want to make, maybe, I hope, in the future, you can buy this products from my website coronn.com, thought you need to send me the material, as a old jacket, a old back-pack or others in order to get your new product,….my intention is to make a production that takes good care of environment.
Still working with the trike, but to make the inside looking good is quite boring, however, it is almost done. Tonight I leave for Sweden, returning in a couple of days. Last week I was in Rome, dirty town, no fun.
