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Makers: LA Episode 04 Featuring Road Runner Bags

Makers LA Featuring Road Runner Bags

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Makers: LA series profiles Angeleno artisans and visionaries who are influencing the Los Angeles cultural landscape with their craft. Road Runner Bags produces cycling specific bags out of their headquarters in Downtown Los Angeles. In the season one finale of Makers: LA, Road Runner Bags founders Ester and Brad takes us on a tour of their DTLA workshop.

“Being made in LA is the heart of our business.”

Makers LA Featuring Road Runner Bags
“What LA culture is about, like it’s very car-centric. People want to be in their little bubble from A to B, and there’s no stimulation in between. Getting around by bike. It’s always exciting.”

Makers LA Featuring Road Runner Bags

“We want people to have a different perspective on life and how they move around on this earth.”
Makers LA Featuring Road Runner Bags

“The majority of our employees use active transportation, and so you really have to understand the product to make the product; so we’re inspired by our daily lives & how we move around in the city.”

Makers LA Featuring Road Runner Bags
Makers LA Featuring Road Runner Bags
“The most challenging thing is trying to figure how am I gonna carry my stuff?”
Makers LA Featuring Road Runner Bags
Makers LA Featuring Road Runner Bags

“There’s that ultimate level of freedom of being on your bike and getting from place to place.” 

Makers LA Featuring Road Runner Bags
Makers LA Featuring Road Runner Bags
“And not all bicycles are alike. They’re all different and unique in different shapes and sizes. So having to fill any open space on the bike has been the goal.”
Makers LA Featuring Road Runner Bags

“Steering away from cars & trying to do something a little bit against the grain.”

Makers LA Featuring Road Runner Bags

“As a tinkerer & builder, it just kind of clicked with me that I needed bags.”

Makers LA Featuring Road Runner Bags

“I really discovered how viable of an option the bicycles can be for not just commuting for small trips, long trips, the bike to train, last mile accessibility.” 

Makers LA Featuring Road Runner Bags

“The process in creating a new products for us has always been at the very core of our butts on the bike, and it is that simple. When we’re seated on that saddle, our brains are spinning like the wheels beneath us.” 

Makers LA Featuring Road Runner Bags

“The bicycle doesn’t come with a trunk. We have to get creative.” 

Makers LA Featuring Road Runner Bags

“We rely on our products just as much as our customers do.”

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