The Eliminator – Five from Huckberry
Here’s how this works: Each day we’ll eliminate an item until only one remains. Vote for the item you’d LEAST like to own at the bottom of the page. The item with the most votes gets ejected at the end of the day. The item that remains at the end of this battle royal will be won by one of you with an enter to win post firing off on Friday.
About Huckberry: It’s not easy to stand out in the world of flash sale websites, but Huckberry does it. With an emphasis on the outdoors and active lifestyle gear, they nail the upscale-rugged thing. Also, their sales are often littered with made in the USA goods. All of these items will have been available through Huckberry at some point.
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Taylor Stitch Black Gingham English Dress Shirt – $125
Made in San Francisco by a company that also makes custom shirts (those run $150 – $300+). This one is an off the rack model, but with a tailored fit, high armhole, and single needle construction with double stitched buttons and button holes, it’s one of those shirts that’ll blow away the rest of your collection. Black and white gingham with a spread collar. No pleats since the guys at Taylor Stitch want to make it as easy as possible for you to iron.
ELIMINATED – “Handsome Dan” Leather Head Football – $120.00
If an old dog-chewed NERF turbo is at one end of the spectrum, then this football sits on the complete opposite end. Functional art. Hand-made in the USA from amazing looking, rich leather from Prime Tannery in Maine. Made it into the Art of Manliness Father’s Day Huckberry shop.
Braun Analog Date Black – $210
Sharp, clean, and a legendary no nonsense design. Quartz movement, 150′ water resistance, and scratch resistant mineral glass. Braun watches and clocks were out of production for years, but they’ve started production once again. Was being offered on Huckberry pre-father’s day with different levels of thank-you credits with purchase. Luckily for all of us, they set one aside for someone to potentially win.
ELIMINATED – BCX Pathfinder Axe in Black & Orange “Titan” color scheme – $210.00
Lightweight and versatile, it’s perfect for splitting firewood into kindling, clearing your way, or, uh, just about anything else you could use an easy to wield axe for. All while looking incredible. Drop forged high carbon, fine grain 1.75 lb steel head, hand tempered and ground in Maine. 26″ hickory handle. Comes with a leather head cover.
Critical Cycles Cream/Brown/Black Fixed Gear – $219.00
A brand new bike brand that launches next month, and they promise to deliver single speed bikes “with a component set that is ideal for riding around town”. Equipped with a flip-flop hub so you can ride it as fixed-gear, or, switch cogs and now your bike has a freewheel like a standard single speed. Nifty. Protek cranks, Sunrun freewheel, KMC chain, Wanda Tires, Well-Go pedals, and Promax brakes. $219 total cost with free shipping in the continental US. More proof here that black and brown (or cream) really can go together.
Pick the item that you’d LEAST like to win and vote below to have it eliminated. One item gets cut every day. The item that’s left at the end of the week will be up for grabs and you’ll be able to enter to win on Friday. Make your case for what needs to go and/or what should stay in the comments. Voting closes at 11:59pm ET.
Which Huckberry item should be ELIMINATED?
- The Taylor Stitch Gingham Shirt (26%, 413 Votes)
- The Braun Analog Date Black Watch (42%, 664 Votes)
- The Critical Cycles Fixed Gear Bike (32%, 503 Votes)
Total Voters: 1,579
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you can get a gingham dress shirt at any online/retail store existing in U.S. This trend has been raging on for at least a couple of years now and probably will for a couple more. The watch, you may or may not hate the style; the bike, you may or may not hate the single-speed/fix-gear thing or may or may not need it. But these two are way more valuable AND comparably more unique than a gingham shirt.
I kind of liked the axe for no particular reason. Someone said the watch reminded them of a coffee maker on Monday and I’ve not been impressed since.
Ack. That watch has to go.
I love the bike! I wish I could get past the sign in page on their site, but I guess its not up yet. The watch is a big NO. i too think “coffee maker” or “electric razor”… The shirt, I have one just like it from Sid Mashburn that I love and I paid $20 more than this one listed.
Shirt: Nothing out of the ordinary..
Watch: Meh
Bike: Come to papa
Fixies are standard hipster transport. Maybe they could give away an ironic vintage t-shirt too.
standard bro response
You don’t have to like it or want it but does everyone hating on the watch understand that it (along with other Braun products of that era) has an important role in the history of industrial and consumer design? The original braun watches are often found in museums.
PLEASE GET RID OF THE UGLY WATCH.
I still like the watch and bike…both for their simplicity. The shirt…meh, still say it’s nothing to write home about. It looks nice, and I would wear it, but the price for the watch and bike (while more expensive) seem to be a better value. Even if the bike is a hodgepodge of Chinese parts, you’d be hard pressed to find any bike not made in the Far East these days and to get to a pricepoint below $300 you’d have to go to Target or Walmart anyway and would surely get crap. It’s no Moots Psychlo, but it would be more than enough to withstand the Average Joe’s 2 mile bicycle adventure to the local cafe.
Amen! I’ve been voting to get rid of the shirt the whole time…all the other things were way more unique than a shirt.
I have voted against that ugly watch twice already and will vote against it once more today.
The bike just seems dangerous with only a rear brake. When you run a single brake, it goes on the front so the bike will actually stop. If you have the hub flipped to the fixed side, and you lock that rear brake you’re going to have a bad time. That’s why you only run a front brake, if any, on fied gear bikes. If they got that very basic thing wrong, I wonder what else is messed up on it.
Still hating that watch
Sure fine, but I still don’t want to win it.
Bring down that damn watch. Who would wear that? Why?
For the commenters that are hating on the watch to claim they know or enjoy style is laughable. Please take some time to read up on Braun. They are one of the best when it comes to industrial design.
As for the shirt i agree that it is nothing special and the same style can be found at dozens of retailers.
Why is that hideous bike still here? It looks like something hipster college girls ride to class and back.
That shirt has GOT TO GO. As I’ve said before (as well as others) you can get a similar shirt anywhere any time. The bike’s gotta be the real winner here.
I like the shirt but its ordinary
Cut it
I have a few Taylor Stitch shirts, and they are head and shoulders the best shirts I own. I’m actually wearing the black gingham shirt right now. Super well constructed, excellent fit, and Made in the USA – it remains the only brand of shirts I have that hits the perfect length for tucked or untucked. It’s not the most interesting item here, but it is, in my opinion, the best.
So because my taste is not the same as yours or as some critically regarded great industrial design makes my opinion laughable? Really no reason to criticize another’s opinion on a subject that as open to personal interpretation as style.
I can’t believe that watch is still there. It’s boring and plan. Granted the shirt is nothing special but come on people! Then again I’m too lazy for a fixed gear bike. I like coasting down hills but for the price it’s a damn nice bike.
Kill. The. Watch. $200 for a quartz watch that goes with your toaster? Fail.
The fixie would be awesome in a city where you won’t get killed riding it around. Watch is hideous and I like the shirt but spread collars means it would look weird without a tie.
My take: The watch is a particular style, you can either love it or hate it, but it’s unusual. Think of Swatch watches, or Junghans watches too.
The shirt, on the other hand is nothing special. You could probably find 10 more exactly like it, some better, some worse.
No idea about the quality of the bike, but I’d be worried at that price point.
So the watch gets my vote. Even though I wouldn’t wear it often!
what’s wrong with that?
http://www.thesartorialist.com/photos/this-is-why-biking-is-good-for-your-legs-nyc/
How dare you deny me that pleasure!
That bike has got to be a piece, but it is way to hipster looking to pass on. Nixing the shirt.
Toss the shirt.
I don’t have a problem with the above, I’m just afraid that some guy on here will win the bike and strike the exact same pose! Showing off his legs and everything
I don’t have a problem with the watch and I’m kind of surprised so many people do.
Bye bye Bike
i want that shirt!!!
Coulda sworn I got the same watch for free when I mailed in the proof of purchase from one of Braun’s shavers.
There are numerous reasons to vote against the watch which have nothing to do with having “laughable” knowledge or enjoyment of style.
The simplest of which is simply that the design is unattractive to the person voting against it. The assertion that Braun is “one of the best when it comes to industrial design” does not alter the aesthetics of the watch, nor does it improve the watch’s specs as a mass-produced, generic quartz with no distinguishing features, complications, or innovations.
How many of us need a bike?
And how many want a watch that looks like that?
Now how many could use a nice gingham shirt?
I like minimalist Bauhaus watches (Nomos makes some truly beautiful ones… the ivory-dialed Club is my favorite) but I just don’t think the Braun is a particularly well-executed example of the style.
I agree! Shirt, schmirt, that bike needs a’ ridin’!
I’d axe the watch, but I’m concerned about the quality of that bike. I’d rather splurge on a shirt. No way I’d ever spend that much on a shirt.
That bike is awesome. The shirt is pretty standard.
I’m perfectly happy with either a new spread collar or a fancy bike.
You are not responding to me but I didn’t mean to imply voting against the watch was wrong (though of all the things on the list I want the watch the most). However, I did intend to reply to people who seem to believe the watch has “no distinguishing features, complications, or innovations.”
You have to consider when the watch was made and the many design elements that it (and other braun products of its era) inspired. Its innovation was that it had no distinguishing features or complications. It may not seem like an innovation now, but when it was designed it was. In fact it was the Braun products from this era that inspired the apple products (along with many other products) of today (as far as design goes).
Are we really going to go through with this and give up the opportunity to get hold of wonderfully unique (quirky?) items and go with a pretty nice, but pretty standard shirt?
I’d at least wear the shirt and possibly the watch. The bike would be on craigslist right away – and I’d need to find a place to store it in the meantime. Just not a fan of fixed-gear bikes.
I honestly think the watch is gorgeous. *shrug*
you know that it’s NOT just fixed gear, right? The post clearly says, you can change between single-speed AND fixed gear as it’s coming with a flip-flop hub. I STILL CAN’T believe people haven’t caught up to this at day 3. Joe, can you make that part BOLD, so that we won’t miss it?
Like the shirt, but i’m agreeing with most in that it can be easily gotten. Watch and bike are both really nice. i think people are VOTING first and THEN reading reactions. If people read the notes, it might have a change on the way they vote. Changed me…
The bike is awesome- why wouldn’t you want it?
I agree with you completely here. The shirt is nothing special- that bike is just amazing.
well shucks i totally missed that all three days. I would like to have a good excuse but i simply missed it. That makes the bike that much better to me. Thanks for correcting me Mike.
This is a style site. The bicycle is not stylish, thus it must go. The watch might not be ‘my style’, but it’s not some weird kid’s-bmx-riser-bar’d, stamped fork end, brake on the wrong wheel bicycle.
You will not look stylish doing ‘bar spins’ on this thing. Just as you observe others engaged in fashion faux pas, so too will those in the know snicker after you have pedaled by.
Beware!
For some reason, I really dislike that watch. The shirt doesn’t get me all that excited.
As a city dweller, I dig the bike. If I were in the ‘burbs or in the country, I’d want a more versatile one.
Why does the bike only have a rear brake? I’ve seen plenty of Fixies with only front brakes but never only a rear brake.
the bike is a fixed gear. I wouldn’t expect much from it… just good for riding around town. visit the site, they come in tons of colors.
Too bad about the axe getting chopped.
Braun should stick to electric appliances. That watch isn’t too apealing.
Blammo.
Ditch the shirt. Win bike or watch. Sell bike or watch. Buy 2 nice shirts. Or better yet, don’t spend $125 on one shirt and turn roughly $200 from the watch or bike into 3-4 BR dress shirts.
Ditch the shirt.
I’m warming to the watch, but a Fixie anywhere other than the city is a great way to be late and exhausted. Yeah, you can get a gingham anywhere, but a custom fit spread collar is pretty swank, you have to admit.
That is a gorgeous bike.
Gingham Shirt you can find about anywhere.
That watch… gorgeous!
The bike… well, who could say no to a new fixie?
I’d like to see the way Dappered ships that bike if it wins..
Get rid of the shirt, please!
exactly… but people are too dumb to be logical and think things through like that
watch
Fixie must go!
Thanks.