{"id":22,"date":"2016-01-01T18:32:03","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T00:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/cruzee\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2022-09-06T18:22:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T00:22:44","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cruzee.com\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3275\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cruzee.com\/about\/ming-giulia\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.cruzee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Ming-Giulia.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1094,1413\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Why we made Cruzee Bikes\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.cruzee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Ming-Giulia-800x1033.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.cruzee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Ming-Giulia.jpg\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3275 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cruzee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Ming-Giulia-400x517.jpg\" alt=\"Why we made Cruzee Bikes\" width=\"400\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cruzee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Ming-Giulia-400x517.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.cruzee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Ming-Giulia-500x646.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.cruzee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Ming-Giulia-700x904.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.cruzee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Ming-Giulia-800x1033.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.cruzee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Ming-Giulia.jpg 1094w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>&#8220;Our motivation for creating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cruzee.com\/\">Cruzee Balance Bikes<\/a> is driven first and foremost by being parents, and like all parents we want the best for our children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cruzee Balance Bikes are the product of both being a parent and a decades long career developing world class bicycles and related products. We can think of no better place to apply decades of learning than to making a positive impression on the generations that follow.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cOur motivation for creating\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cruzee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Cruzee Balance Bikes<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0is driven first and foremost by being parents, and like all parents, we want the best for our children.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Cruzee Balance Bikes are the product of both being a parent and a decades-long career developing world-class bicycles and related products. We can think of no better place to apply decades of learning than to make a positive impression on the following generations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">We have engaged the best cycle component manufacturers, material suppliers, and assembly plants, with all of our efforts centred around a deceptively simple idea: make a bike that excels in all ways while maintaining its affordability &amp; accessibility to as many families as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">We sincerely feel the need to do our best to ensure all of our children can grow up in a clean and safe world. So, in addition to engineering &amp; production excellence, we have always focused on environmental sustainability &amp; responsibility. We look forward to setting the standard for sustainable manufacturing at Cruzee, especially now as we make Cruzee Balance Bikes Bikes available in North America for the first time in 2016!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We have engaged the best cycle component manufacturers, material suppliers, and assembly plants, with all of our efforts centered around a deceptively simple idea: make a bike that excels in all ways, while maintaining its affordability &amp; accessibility to as many families as possible.<\/p>\n<p>We deeply feel the need to do our best to insure all of our children can grow up in an world that is clean and safe. So, in addition to engineering &amp; production excellence, we have always focused on environmental sustainability &amp; responsibility. 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