Showing posts with label Indiegogo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Indiegogo. Show all posts
Just realized this beaut was never posted on the blog! Kudos to Swedish Fish Studios aka Linus for pulling this together last minute before our true launch. All the video reel is thanks to Travis, Josh and our friends at The Good Line. Check out the final video on our Indiegogo page.
When we first started with Roam we had no idea where the concept would take us. Initially bike packing, biking even wasn't in the equation at all! Our focus was on climbing, putting all our efforts to get Dustin AMGA/IFMGA certified and going from there. Always in the back of our minds it wasn't until Monticello moved to the forefront and in looking for climbing in the area that bike packing came into the picture. First as a means to get to climbs, and now the way to explore the area. A way to explore the country replacing the the Toyota's motor with a clinking chain, a way to slow down and see more, a way to explore simpler.
Now we need your help. We recently launched a project on Indiegogo to get our first fleet made to provide you a means to explore with us. Indiegogo is a website for sharing ideas where people can go to back projects monetarily in exchange for a tangible reward. The video shows the country, the bikes we're using to create the ultimate bike packing fleet, and what our future plans are. This project is near and dear to us, and it is more than just raising funds for bikes. The bottom line is our love for the area and country and how much we want to spread our stoke and appreciation for this land's beauty. Your pledge means a lot to us in getting bikes and spreading the love for the area.
Check out our project here and please feel free to share the link with your friends and family, anything helps!
Monsoon season can be the pits. Sure our country is dry as bones and can always use the rain, the rock and dirt magically change colors with the touch of water, and we have the best lightning shows. BUT when it's always raining it puts a slight damper on exploration; roads flood, trails become mud slides (sometimes fun...just not when they're rocky), and with the rain sometimes comes hail...yea hail in the summer welcome to SE UT ha! We can really only stand so much "crafting" before we start getting antsy and restless.
Well three great things happened this past weekend 1) we convinced D's BF Scott to come down 2) we woke up to a sunny skies 3) the shemagh shipment arrived (that's 100 for our upcoming Indiegogo campaign in case you were wondering, yes 100). Sunny skies permitting with shemagh wrapped heads we headed to Bayles Ranch nestled in Chippean Rocks.
Bayles ranch is now split into 3 separate private properties. We've been wanting to speak with the owners but as luck would have it one lives in Germany, one in England, and the other in Blanding. It was our first time riding down to this area, and we took a chance dropping by one of the ranch properties. The England owner by chance happened to be visiting and we were able to have a nice chat on his porch and find wait out a looming rain cloud. The cloud emptied and subsided to a drizzle we parted ways with our new friend and as chance would have it we made it back to the truck in time for the hail show.
This past weekend I ended up having some extra time before my ankle surgery so we headed down to Monticello. We have been drafting Roam swag so it was about time to create prototypes. Dustin's dad has done quite a bit of leather work so he taught us some tricks of the trade. What it is we're keeping under wraps until our Indiegogo launch, but here are some sneak peeks.
Full Set | Leathermakers
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