Colorado Bike Month Program & Cycling Challenge

Bike to Work Charity T-shirtIf you know about our annual bike month program, you'll know that we design a special t-shirt just for bike month and contribute a portion of the proceeds to a local...

Market Season is here - Spring Horseshoe Market!

Market season is here! Time to enjoy the outdoors while shopping. :) First up is the Horseshoe Handmade Spring Market in Denver.Details:Spring Horseshoe MarketSaturday, May 11th, 9 am-4 pm4345 W. 46th Ave, in the parking...

Steamboat Sunglasses at Night Party TONIGHT!

Late notice as we had a scare with the delivery of our sunglasses this year, but they are worth the wait!! Come out to the Taphouse tonight for all the fun. Beat the Clock drink...

Plaid Friday & a Big Thank You!

This Thanksgiving Holiday, we are SO thankful to our community. Thanks to you, Akinz has grown so much in the last year and we're loving being part of the Old Town Fort Collins scene with...

Akinz Family Photo Album - Kristen Nichols

We've been a little MIA while preparing amazing new things and opening our shop (blog posts on each coming soon), but now that the dust is settling we wanted to bring you our first Akinz...

July Featured Dealer - Woodward at Copper

We've made some changes to our website over the last few months and one of the ones you might have noticed is the featured dealer spot in the lower right side of the footer. So...

A little piece of Colorado in France

Tyler has been galavanting around Europe for about a month now and he's been having too much fun to take time to put his pictures on a computer, but he sent us this quick pic...

Community Choice Plaid Mob at Akinz!

Be Local put this month's Plaid Mob to a community vote and Akinz was chosen as the destination! What is a Plaid Mob?From the Be Local website, Known in cities around the country as a...

Respire Haiti Otterbox Fundraiser

OtterBox has a great fundraising program where they get their employees involved in choosing where their donation dollars are spent. It is called the G3 Challenge - OtterCares (the charitable arm of OtterBox) 'gives' each...