Marc Mendoza didn’t set out to build a bag company. He simply wanted to take his bike on the trips he planned from his desk as an industrial designer in San Francisco.
Before a long-anticipated ride across Southeast Asia in 2015, those plans fell apart—thanks to an oversized hardshell case that was heavy, expensive to fly with, and miserable to move through unfamiliar cities. That frustration made the problem clear: traveling with a bike shouldn't be this hard, heavy, and costly.
The Transfer Case became Marc’s answer. Compact enough to avoid most airline fees, easy to maneuver, and able to fold down small, it reflected the design principles he cared about most: solve a real problem and refine every detail that affects how we use it.
In 2018, Marc left his job and moved to Vietnam—initially to work directly with manufacturers and develop the product from the ground up. But the place reshaped him, too. The energy, pace, and everyday resourcefulness of Vietnam—along with the street life he’d only seen on Anthony Bourdain episodes—became part of his flow and his design approach.
Post Carry Co. grew from that mix of necessity, curiosity, and hands-on iteration. Every product since the Transfer Case starts with a specific friction point—airline fees, tight hotel rooms, cluttered cockpits—and works toward a simpler, more efficient way to solve it.
Today, Marc continues to design and ride in Vietnam, drawing from a culture of creativity and adaptability. That mindset runs through every Post Carry bag: purposeful, thoroughly considered, and built to make traveling with a bike feel easier than ever.
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