Updates from the world of Penny in Yo Pants
It’s been quite a journey in exploring how to make our wee invention of a penny & rubber band even better. After months of prototyping, we have finally done. Meet the new Penny in Yo’ Pants! It’s a faux leather puck with a branded aluminium coin that snaps neatly together when you aren’t using it.
Penny in Yo’ Pants isn’t just for your skirt and dress. When you aren’t using it on your bike, it’s a great accessory as a lovely brooch or even to cinch your scarf. How have you used your Penny?
Jo Holtan took the TEDxUniversityofEdinburgh stage to talk about the story of CycleHack and Penny in Yo’ Pants to a crowd of 500 students and staff from the university.
We have been absolutely inspired by the women’s cycling team in Afghanistan and had the pleasure to speak with Shannon Galpin about her experience with the team. An inspiration herself, she was one of the first women to mountain bike in the country and has helped connect the team with international exposure. According to Mountain to Mountain nonprofit supporting the …
It’s great seeing so many women trying out Penny in Yo’ Pants in the real world. Leaving my #cyclehack on, because I can’t wait to get back on my saddle pic.twitter.com/1rtc5EUHnG — Vanessa A. Wolf (@HyperboreanWolf) October 27, 2014 Hoy #altrabajoenbici con falda y #pennyinyourpants jajajjaja espero llegar. pic.twitter.com/h89YOlp6JU — eva maria martinez (@evamamga) October 8, 2014 Women - show …
Sarah from CycleHack and the Penny in Yo’ Pants team was on BBC Worldwide was talking about our wee invention!
This past week, Johanna from the team had an amazing opportunity to talk at the Falling Walls Lab at the University of Edinburgh on the power and process of Cyclehack and Penny in Yo’ Pants. The line up included young researchers and entrepreneurs who shared their research work, ideas and initiatives. With only 3 minutes, we had to share our breakthrough. It was a pleasure to …
Penny in Yo’ Pants was featured in Slate recently praising the idea for it’s simplicity. We are so glad the penny and rubber band worked! Eager to see if this trick was as good as it seemed, I just tried it with a nickel and a hairband and took a spin around the office on my bike. The verdict: It …
Jo tries out some new models of Pennies on a longer dress.
Happy nearly 3 million views! Just over a month ago and Penny in Yo’ Pants was born at Cyclehack in Glasgow. Since then, it’s been picked up by Slate, Cosmopolitan, Momemtum Mag, and countless other sources all over the world. Friends in New York and Copenhagen have seen women using Pennies out in the wild. Strangers are stopping us on …