Description
The Storm Box Mini transforms the rear of your bike into a roomy, weather-protected bucket for one passenger. It includes two weather-resistant lids—the lockable Cargo Lid Mini to protect your stuff from rain and prying eyes, and the Kid Lid Mini to keep little ones warm and cozy, even on bad-weather days.
This product is designed to carry either passengers or cargo.
If carrying passengers, additional accessories are required for safety. Check out our Passenger Guide to learn more:
- Carries one kid in or out of a child seat, or up to 100 L of cargo
- Makes carrying long and odd-shaped objects easy—just toss them in
- Five inner pockets for stashing snacks, water bottles, kids’ devices, and more
- Rear loops for attaching safety lights to boost visibility
- Requires the Clubhouse Mini for installation
- Part of the Clubhouse Fort Mini—an all-weather protected compartment for a child passenger.
Brand
Tern
In the fall of 2010, we established a team of people who knew a thing or two about how to make bikes. We saw an opportunity to form a new company and walk the hard path of starting anew.
Once committed, the first step was finding the right name and identity for our fledgling brand. There were about a dozen of us, brainstorming poolside, in the backyard of a Las Vegas rental after Interbike.
Our Art Director swung us back to a particularly inspiring quote of Yvon Chouinard, the founder of Patagonia, from the film 180° South: “The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life. It’s so easy to make it complex. The solution, may be, for a lot of the world’s problems is to turn around and take a forward step. You can’t just keep trying to make a flawed system work.” The idea of turning around and moving forward to face the challenges head-on was compelling.
It meant retracing some steps, but we would know where to expect the bumps in the road. The discussion kept coming back to the word, turn and all of its connotations, but the word itself lacked personality.
With the beer and creativity flowing, a tangential discussion led us to names of migratory animals. After all, we wanted to change how people get around, so that category seemed a fitting source of inspiration. Serendipitously, an internet search found the world-champion of migratory animals to be the Arctic Tern.
Being a homophone was already a huge plus, but the nature of the bird is what helped solidify the choice. The Artic Tern has innate characteristics that embody the company we envision.
