Kickstarter Video Shoot - This Saturday

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We are all getting really excited for this upcoming weekend.  We'll be shooting the Kickstarter video with a bunch of our friends and family.   The shoot will start in Denver capturing the Slap Bag in it's urban backyard helping people get to where they are going with all their small stuff and with none of the frustration of big bags or keys and phones falling out of pockets.

Stops near Coors Field, REI and Sloan's Lake will await us before we get our tires dirty near Red Rocks.  After yucking it up at Red Rocks on our Fat Tire bikes and Mountain Bikes we'll head up to Boulder for some great video in our backyard so to speak.

Road biking up flagstaff, mountain biking down the connector to Canyon road and then up and down the link trail of Betasso, what fun!!!!

Then up to Neva road for some open vista road biking and maybe even some single track mesa riding near the Boulder Res.

We'll wrap it all up near Boulder and over to Sanitas Brewing for some end of day cheers.

Thanks to all who are a part of this so far and for the ones we'll look to share Slap Bag with in the coming weeks and months.

Cheers,

Chris

Oregon Factory Chosen

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Back in May of 2014 we partnered with a cut & sew factory in Oregon.  Since then we have been going through the process of refining the Slap Bag design with the goal of improving the original prototypes.  Some of the major adjustments and improvements in that time are with the velcro attachments for the handlebars, offset attachments and reduced sag of the bag when carrying larger items.  SUCCESS!!!! 

On May 19th, 2016 just over 2 years after starting the process we have a GOLD SAMPLE, well 2 actually, in hand.  These bags are going through our final product in-the-field testing right now and expecting they pass these will be the designs that are the final production blueprints.

In the final round we made a major breakthrough with the closure system in which the sag was all but removed when under load.  Previous versions, including the original prototypes from 2005, sagged when under load.  Although that never presented a functional problem it was aesthetically unpleasing and didn't present the way we hoped.  

The fine folks in Oregon have begun making 12 final gold samples which will be used in our upcoming Kickstarter video shoot scheduled for June 4th in Denver and Boulder.  Immediately after they finish and ship those 12 we have put in an order for our first pre-production batch of 100 bags.  These bags will be seeded to bloggers, reviewers and interested wholesalers as well as a select few will go out to our earliest fans!

About 10% of those first 100 bags will be set aside for the first supporters of our Kickstarter campaign who also make it to our Kickstarter Launch Party here in Boulder on June 28th at Sanitas Brewing Company.  We'll be putting names into a hat and drawing the lucky folks who won't have to wait even 1 day to get their Kickstarter supported Slap Bags.