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Road tripping to Reno

8/26/2016

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We had several orders from people planning to take their bike seat out onto the playa this year. Unfortunately the bike seats were scheduled to arrive at the fulfillment center without enough time for shipping before people left. So I decided to take matters into my own hands. I already had plans to meet the new shipment when it arrived at the fulfillment center in Phoenix, since this is a new partner and it's always great to meet business partners face-to-face. In order to get bike seat orders out to folks heading to the playa, I filled up a minivan in Phoenix and road tripped north to meet them in Reno to give them their bike seats.

The new inventory arrived safely at the new distribution center on Friday of last week and I was able to review it all on Monday after arriving in Phoenix late Sunday night. The shipment looked great and all back-orders have been shipped out this week. I met with the team managing fulfillment now and they're good people and will take care of Companion Bike Seat well. It was pretty exciting to see the rows and rows of new bike seats (and backrests and ebike pegs) ready to ship out!
boxes of companion bike seats in a warehouse
Companion Bike Seat co-founder road tripping to Reno
boxes of Companion Bike Seats on pallets in a warehouse
The road trip to Reno has been a long journey so far. We drove from San Francisco down to Phoenix on Sunday (13 hours straight ... in a UHaul), met with the fulfillment center on Monday, drove to Las Vegas on Tuesday, finished the trip to Reno on Wednesday, and spent the first 36 hours in Reno meeting up with bike seat customers heading out to the playa.

​It's now Friday afternoon and only two more drop offs to make before the end of the weekend, so now it's time to relax a little bit and enjoy the "biggest little city in the world."
All in all it's been a pretty exhausting road trip after covering over 1500 miles of a 1700+ mile road trip, but well worth it at the end of the day. Most of our bike seat sales occur online today, so I get very few opportunities to meet with customers face to face, and this road trip has been awesome for that. Plus, bike seat orders are flowing again!
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Backrest installation video now available

12/12/2015

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For most of us, videos are easier to understand than printed manuals with illustrations, and I was finally able to put together a quick video tutorial on how to install and remove the new backrest for Companion Bike Seat. You can watch it here on thebikeseat.com or on YouTube. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay updated on all our new products and videos!
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Demonstration of new sound cloth for the storage compartment

12/6/2015

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We're excited to introduce a new accessory for your Companion Bike Seat: a sound cloth for the storage compartment! If you've put anything small and metal inside your storage compartment while you're out riding, you'll have definitely noticed how much noise it can make bouncing around. We've designed a custom neoprene mat for the walls and the bottom of the storage compartment to help block out all the noise. It's easy to put in or remove, and since it's neoprene, you can wash it if anything ever spills inside the storage compartment.
We're still working out the details on manufacturing (this is one of two prototypes sent for us to test out), but they'll be made in Southern California, so turn-around time should be very quick. We hope to have them available for sale within the next couple months. Stay tuned for more info soon!
new sound cloth for companion bike seat
sound cloth inside the storage compartment of Companion Bike Seat
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SF Bike Expo 2015

11/15/2015

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SF Bike Expo Logo
Heading to the SF Bike Expo next weekend at the Cow Palace? Make sure to stop by booth 144 and say hello to us, we'll be there all day. It'll be a great chance to check out the brand new backrests for Companion Bike Seat, as well as some of the other new accessories we're working on, including the pannier hooks and the sound cloth for the storage compartment.
SF Bike Expo is one day only, Saturday Nov 21 from 11am to 5pm. There will be all sorts of fun bicycling products and accessories to try out. Come out and support Bay Area bicycling!
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Sunday Morning Ride down Valencia Street

7/30/2015

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I took Companion Bike Seat out for an early morning ride down Valencia Street in the Mission, and passed a cafe playing some music as they were prepping for the day. Of course I just had to dance!
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Backrest Prototype is Ready for Manufacturing

6/7/2015

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The latest backrest prototype from the factory arrived today and it looks like we're ready to start manufacturing the backrests for Companion Bike Seat!
The backrest prototype arrived in the mail on Friday, but it wasn't until today that I was able to take it out for a test drive. First, I took a couple pictures comparing the first and third bike seat backrest prototypes side-by-side. You'll notice that the newest prototype (on the right in the picture) is taller and has a larger backrest cushion for the passenger (as intended). 

Installation of this latest prototype onto the bike seat was even easier than the first, which was great (also intended). Next step was to take it out for it's first test-drive!
companion bike seat backrest prototypes side-by-side
The new backrest worked like magic! We took the backrest out for a ride to Dolores Park for the day (just like everyone else in the Mission) and the backrest exceeded expectations. We brought the dog with us for the inaugural bike ride, and she enjoyed every minute of it. The backrest made it much easier to ride as a passenger, such that holding the dog in arms while riding to the park was a piece of cake.
bike seat backrest prototype overlooking san francisco skyline
kiwi dog posing with the newest bike seat backrest
I've let the factory know that we're a GO for manufacturing the bike seat backrests. As soon as we have a delivery date from the factory for the backrests we'll let you know!
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Companion Bike Seat on Weebly Inspiration Center

5/24/2015

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We've been using Weebly to build and publish the website ever since we first got started back in 2011. They reached out to me a couple of months ago to help them with some user-testing for a new product their working on, and I mentioned to them in passing how I'd recently redesigned the website and was seeing a huge improvement with how people were engaging with the new design. 

I ended up writing a short article for their Inspiration Center about the benefits of keeping a website fresh and up-to-date. A couple weeks later they sent a team out to shoot a video up on the top of Bernal Hill overlooking the SF skyline. The video is predominantly promoting Weebly of course, but I got a couple of plugs in for the bike seat as well. Check it out when you have the chance!

weebly.com/inspiration/simple-design-update-doubles-sales-the-bikeseatcom-story
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Riding CicLAvia for the first time

3/22/2015

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cicLAvia north hollywood mar 2015
We took a trip down to Los Angeles this weekend to shoot a new Companion Bike Seat video (more on this coming soon) and turns out it was the perfect weekend to be in LA ... CicLAvia - The Valley was hitting the streets of North Hollywood on Sunday! CicLAvia is LA's version of Ciclovia (started in Bogota 20+ years ago), where city streets are shut down all day, and bicycles and pedestrians take over the streets. I was pleasantly surprised to see all the crowds the turned out for it, with several thousand people taking their streets back.
This was the first CicLAvia event to be held in the San Fernando Valley and was a huge hit. CicLAvia hosts several events throughout the year, spreading them out all over LA county. CicLAvia aims to change people’s attitudes, behaviors and the public conversation regarding alternative transportation, health and wellness, public spaces and community engagement, and they were certainly successful at it today! What a great experience ... we'll definitely be back again for future CicLAvias.
double decker bicycle at cicLAvia
cicLAvia north hollywood mar 2015
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Happy Halloween from the Matadors of Companion Bike Seat

10/31/2014

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It's that time of year again, when we all get to put on costumes and get as debaucherous as possible, after taking the little ones out to trick-or-treat and collect candy of course. I realized something this year - if I go trick-or-treating on my bicycle, I can still bring a friend along, I can put all of my candy in the stash-box, and I can collect two to three times as much candy since I can move faster and hit up more houses! Happy Halloween!
companion bike seat matador
companion bike seat matador for halloween
companion bike seat matador bike ride
companion bike seat matadors riding a bicycle
companion bike seat matador smiling
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Prepping the First Orders for Fulfillment

9/27/2013

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The first shipment of bike seats arrived at our "warehouse" earlier this week. We spent the day prepping orders, which will be shipping out first thing next week!
pallet of Companion Bike Seats
Companion Bike Seat Co-founders
Companion Bike Seat: first shipment
Prepping Companion Bike Seat orders
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