Hello everyone 🤙
My name is Brian, I’m an Army Veteran who currently resides in the South Bay area of San Francisco, aka San Jose😆.
I have lived and worked around the world both while in the service and after when I lived on the South shore of Maui and ran a scooter/moped rental, service, and sales outfit. I’ve worked in automotive marketing for Subaru of America, served coffee for Starbucks, and was a brand ambassador for specialty outdoor products while working at REI including custom boot fitting and ski tuning among other things. I currently have what I would consider to be one of the coolest / easiest jobs one could come across, I work from home which is definitely cool and adds to the position where I serve as a QA consultant and test / find the best deals on products of all types essentially finding the best deals on whatever is out there to help people save money and enjoy whatever they buy confident in the fact that they got the best deal they possibly could have and got the right product for themselves.
I first became involved with scooters (of the electric kind that is) a few years back when a friend had me sell two scooters that he had purchased off of Amazon one being the NanRobot D4 original, and the Joyor XS5, both of which pretty cool and fairly fast topping out in the low 20mph range with far less actual range than the speed they could go. For a period of time I had the opportunity to drive a Fiat 500e battery electric vehicle as my daily driver and it was at that point I decided that for many reasons including cost and environmental impact, I would never purchase another vehicle that wasn’t a fully electric or other alternative fuel platform.
I moved back to the Bay area after living on the East Coast for a short period of time last year and upon my return here decided to get back on the scooters and started with picking up a tricked out well taken care of Dualtron Eagle Pro SE, and then followed quickly after adding to the stable with a few good deals that I couldn’t pass up including a Kaabo Wolf Warrior 11+, Wolf Warrior X Pro, and a NanRobot LS7 that is a project waiting to be repaired as the previous owner got hit on it and didn’t want to repair it so I picked it up for a screaming deal if nothing else to have the full hydraulic brakes the 40 amp hour battery pack and perfect condition hub motors all of which are perfect for some sort of a frankensteop project upcoming.
I just recently sold a few of the scooters and have been sourcing really good deals on helmets and other protective gear which I’ve been passing on by giving good deals to those in need looking for them on sites like mercari and OfferUp if anyone needs size medium helmets or small it’s primarily what I have right now I can find largest depending on what you’re looking for but any type of way I can help people save money and also be safe is something that I consider to be very important and love doing so there’s that and I currently am shopping for my next dream Ride which although I love it to be something like WEPED Cyberdark, I have to be a bit realistic in that I’m closer to the poverty end of the spectrum than the posh so most likely will be something 72V but more in the budget category. I am also looking at the possibility of importing containers of scooters whether in group by format commonly found in mechanical keyboards (which is another addiction of mine), or as a distributor / dealer where I would like to see about establishing a service sales repair outfit like I did on Maui previously with gas mopeds, so we’ll see where that goes but I want my future to be something that is tied directly to and involve daily with alternative fuel transportation and honestly when they say that find something you love and call that your work I feel as if I finally at a point where those things are actually coming together and in a way that’s possible and awesome so that’s me sorry for the long introduction I have a bad habit of using 20 words when sometimes two will do but what can I say I just get excited about things and well hey that’s me !
I’m stoked to be here and look forward to being a part of the community as I said earlier if there’s any way that I can help if anyone needs to find a deal they’re searching for on something please let me know and I’ll do my best to help pass on the Stoke in the savings so that everyone can come to understand and enjoy just how much fun these things are biggest part about that too of course that comes down to the community around it so let’s have some fun let’s keep it rubber side down keep the air in the tires and full face helmets keeping the skin on our faces 🤙😜🛴🛴