Wednesday 31 March 2010
Tuesday 9 March 2010
Black Eggs
The Board made the decision today to launch a new range of 60’s that’s 60 mm wheels called Black Eggs. These wheels will be made from rubber on an acrylic/ nylon hub.
It is felt that these wheels will appeal to the market of riders who enjoy cruising to the park on their normal street boards. There is very little in the way of changes required to fit them; it really is a plug & play scenario…
The wheels will be launched in a range of three colours; green, black and red.
Rubber street wheels should be a welcome advance on existing wheels available on the market. Nylon wheels tend to increase vibrations where as rubber absorbs vibration's making for a much quieter ride.
Black Eggs will be available on the market within weeks so watch this space…
Thursday 4 March 2010
Cash Money....
Yesterday was a good day for negotiations; the repose brand now has a new investor to help take us forward. As you are probably aware all fledgling companies on the whole are cash strapped at start up. The repose brand is no different, but we have been able to put the right people in the right places. I am proud to think that I have the best team behind the brand that I could find and even if I had a much larger budget I would not change anything at this stage.
We take pride in the knowledge that we don’t have an enormous budget and some of our most innovative ideas have been born out of the need to conserve money.
The team consists of Lynz our graphics & marketing brain, who famously re-branded Zoo York. Rich is our fashion designer, he has worked as a designer for many London fashion houses. Oh and me……Oh and me....
Our philosophy is to try and keep it simple, clean and green. I just hope that we can keep hold of these ideals and not lose perspective as we grow.
Wednesday 3 March 2010
Off-piste madness...
Team Repose is off to Austria this weekend for another session of off-piste madness hopefully the avalanche risk won’t be so high. But that might mean less fresh powder- dilemma’s!!!
The samples should be packaged and shipped by tomorrow morning so they could be in the shops of Ljubljana by the middle of next week. I can’t wait to test the Off Road tires! This set has a knobbled studded tread on them. I actually got the idea from the paving slabs you find at crossings to let the blind know that they have reached a road- bizarrely enough.
We are slowly running out of stickers as I gradually plaster my board, laptops, lifts and any other communal space….
Tuesday 2 March 2010
Plastics, Plastics and more plastics
We have finally got to the bottom of why the samples were failing when placed in the press- the plastics manufacturer had used a soft compound instead of the glass/ nylon composite that was previously agreed!! But with this little problem taken care of we can now move forward with sampling. The samples should be ready for dispatch on Thursday.
I have a meeting today with the event manager of K4 so fingers crossed we should have this venue secured by the end of the week.
The team repose trip to the dolomites at the weekend was a great success. The snowboarding was amazing but there is room for improvement with our camera work.
The team will be travelling to Austria this weekend so hopefully we can have a video together in the next week….
Thursday 25 February 2010
Tools, Tools and more Tools
The manufacturer in the UK has just contacted me to say that they are still experiencing problems with the plastics. It’s now time to have a little re-think. The current type of plastic they are using is a medium hardness nylon this is now going to be changed to a high density with a longer curing time…
I have just received a selection of images of the new two cavity tools for the All Terrain and Off-Road wheels. There is also a couple of images of a stack of slick wheels ready for dispatch:
Team Repose- Snowboarding
The repose30 snowboarding Team is off to the Dolomites this weekend for some Off-Piste madness!! The new brand stickers arrive today and our head cams have arrived in the post today- so its all go here at Repose HQ.
The promotions girl from K4 has got back to me about the March launch party and she is interested I have a meeting with her on Monday to discuss details.
Packaging is now finalised; card tubes with red caps- a massive thanks to Phil at BPS!!
Now all I have to do is chase the camera manufacturers for our HD cam for the London video. I hope that they can come up with the goods.
If you want to be involved in the video or just stand on the sidelines please blog back…
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