{"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=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}\" 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\" \/>“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.”<\/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 & 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 & production excellence, we have always focused on environmental sustainability & 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 & 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 & production excellence, we have always focused on environmental sustainability & 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!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>“Our motivation for creating Cruzee Balance Bikes is driven first and foremost by being parents, and like all parents we want the best for our children.” Cruzee Balance Bikes are the product of both being a parent and a decades long career developing world class bicycles and related products. 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