California trip #2 was awesome. This time we primarily stayed in Folsom as we were attending the International Segway Polo Cup, AKA: “The Woz Cup“.  We did get to meet Woz (Co-founder of Apple, Inc.) I was really excited to meet Woz and yes, his player number is 3.14  If you line up the whole [...]

Many of you SBU enthusiasts know who Trevor Blackwell is but you might not be aware of his most-recent endeavor, the Anybot (a personal robotic avatar).  As we traveled through California on our Left Coast Tour we had a chance to meet Trevor along with a few of the Anybot engineers and some people from [...]

We met with some cool people on Wednesday at Stanford. One of the guys we met suggested that we have promotional pillow fights on the SBU. We are taking applications for the best pillow-fighter at info@focusdesigns.com. Send in your pillowfighting resume and we’ll consider you as a potential athlete. On Thursday, we went to a [...]

When we pulled up to the Capitol building in Sacramento a large crowd had already gathered for us and we thought it was really cool that they were expecting us there.  The crowd started cheering after the crowd leader would shout something into the megaphone. They had signs and banners and people even had matching [...]

We knew we were in Eugene when  the fixie to road bike ratio exceeded 13:1 and half of main street was quarantined off for bicycles only.  After sifting through rows of bicycles we parked right outside of American Apparel and started ridin’ nerdy.  We met up with our buddy, Alan who took off on one [...]

Update as of 2/16/2011: ♫ “From Oakland to Sacktown, The Bay Area and back down, Cali is where they put they mack down, Give me love… California Love!””♫ No, Focus Designs hasn’t turned gangsta’ (we’re a “n3rd h3rd” not a “gang”). We’re just planning our SBU Left Coast Tour dates. The SBU was born to be wild, and [...]

Friends, nerds, countrymen, lend me your ears. Here at Focus Designs, we are proud to announce the release of our much-anticipated and improved SBU V2.0.  Aside from a sleeker look, a safer ride, and more power – the new SBU V2.0 is much easier to learn and guaranteed to be an instant crowd-pleaser. Here at [...]

You’ve all been waiting for it, and it’s finally here. Here’s a video documenting the trip we took down to San Francisco to deliver MythBuster Adam Savage’s SBU. Click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdhw-MnbbHA to watch it in HD, rate the video and comment on it.

You’ve probably seen Honda’s new U3-X “segway unicycle” all over the internet and compared it to the SBU…well here is my take on it: The U3-X is cool, I like it a lot and wouldn’t mind having one (for free, Honda want me to test it?). But there are some drawbacks compared to the SBU (what? [...]

Last week was a big week for us…we drove down to Vegas for the interbike expo, I was featured in the Columbian newspaper, Honda released their U3-X “unicycle” design and it appears that the SBU will actually be in the next MythBusters episode on October 7th. Things are moving along nicely here at Focus Designs. [...]