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Left Coast Tour Day 7 – Irvine and Beverly Hills

dwood — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:56:23 +0000

The N3rd H3rd ventures back north as we made a quick stop by Beverly Hills on Oscar night… Yikes. We met up with our friends at the Beverly Hills Bike shop (who will be stocking SBU’s shortly) as well as Jack and Jerri who have a really cool aerobatics addition to their house we got to try out.

Watch our vlog for our zany adventures.

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Left Coast Tour Day 4 – Oakland, CA

dwood — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:24:50 +0000

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 really cool company in Emeryville, CA and hung out with a ton of their employees. They had a huge indoor atrium and we were able to ride in there and train a lot of their employees. We also met up with one of our past customers and made plans for dinner. Woot Woot. It was awesome to re-connect with him.

Later we visited Segway of Oakland and had a bomb time with the workers and owner there. They were pretty laid back and all of em got on the SBU and gave it a shot. They definitely liked it and will probably also become an SBU dealer shortly. Woot!

For those of you who keep asking, we are finally accepting applications for dealers. Shoot an email to sales@focusdesigns.com to see if you qualify.

-N3rd H3rd OUT!

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Left Coast Tour Day 2 – Sacramento and Folsom, CA

dwood — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:12:07 +0000

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 t-shirts. Come to think of it, they may have been there protesting and not to see the SBU.

People picked up the SBU rather quickly and we loved watching them learn it in under 3 minutes. It was especially awesome, however, to run into people that already knew who we were.

In preparation for the Woz Cup 2011 we met up with a whole other h3rd – a Segway n3rd h3rd. Rob Ross and the great people of the Folsom Breakout Segway Polo Club let Daniel and I rock out on some loaner Segways while playing Segway Polo with them. Rob and a few folks took us out for Mexican and we discussed the possibility of Focus Designs refereeing this year’s Segway Polo Cup 2011 (AKA: The Woz Cup). Rob also told us that we’re going to actually meet The Woz (Steve Wozniak, Co-Founder of Apple) who sounds like a pretty laid back dude. I’ve been told he likes pranks so I know I’m gunna try to greet Steve with a great DMart classic.

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SBU Left Coast Tour

dwood — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:32:04 +0000

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 keeping it cooped up at the Focus Design’s HQ just seemed cruel and against everything we stand for. We’re doing the right thing and letting the caged bird loose. You know what they say, “if you love it let it go”. We’re doing just that, and wer’e letting it “go” to you (for a test drive) – Hence, the SBU Left Coast Tour.

What is the Left Coast Tour?
Our plans include stops throughout Oregon and California to bike shops as well as a few other places to let you guys give the SBU a test spin. Aside from special stops at University of Oregon (go Ducks!), Stanford, Google, and Pixar, here’s where we plan to ride (so far) and hopefully meet a lot of you guys:

When?
Feb 21st – Early March 2011

Where?

Feb 21st – Eugene, OR (University of Oregon)

Feb 22nd – Sacramento, CA

Feb 23rd, 24th – San Francisco, CA (Pixar, Google, Stanford)

Feb 25th – Santa Cruz, CA

Feb 26th – Los Angeles, CA

Feb 27th – Huntington Beach, CA

Are you a SBU user?

Stay in touch (to this page) as we update it with specific bike shops, locations, and times where you can meet us.

Are you a bike shop (or a cool company) interested in hosting us for product demonstrations?

If you are interested in checking out the SBU as something you’d like to sell in your store then shoot an email to: sales@focusdesigns.com and we can add your location on our tour.

Media to hang in your bike shop, website, or water cooler.

8.5″ x 11″ Posters

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