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The Electric Warrior
By Russ | October 30, 2009
About two months ago Laura and I rode through Seattle and visited Martina of Swift Industries. We are using her front panniers on our tour and were very excited to meet her. Laura and I always try to support independent artists and makers (being so ourselves). It was a great pleasure to spend an afternoon with Martina and learn the story behind the bags. Perhaps the most gratifying thing was to know that she was so hyper conscious and vigilant about maintaining a socially conscious business. Enjoy! Also, we still need more leads, so send them our way.
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October 30th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
Fantastic interview! Thank you so much for introducing us to swift industries! I have been really enjoying my pelican porteur bag. After watching your interview we have a greater understanding of the swift industry philosophy and we will most certainly purchase all of our bike bags from them in the future. We get so much great gear advice from your blog we are also planning on making a small monthly donation.
You have saved us so much research time and gear failure laments that you deserve financial support from us your readers. 
October 30th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by byron@bikehugger, ThePathLessPedaled. ThePathLessPedaled said: New post. New video. Interview with handsewn pannier maker - Swift Industries. http://pathlesspedaled.com/?p=797 [...]
October 30th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
[...] video put together by The Path Less Pedaled about local craftspeople Swift Industries. Jason and Martina are rad people and have supported some [...]
October 30th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
Loved this story, Russ’ narration/editing was superb. Of NPR caliber I would say. Beyond that Swift is doing some very cool stuff with a philosophy that I wish more folks would adopt.
Bravo!
October 31st, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Lovely piece…as if I was listening to a story on NPR. Hope you are healing well.
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:01 am
Excellent! I’ll second Carl’s & Kim’s “NPR quality” comments. As I watched this I couldn’t help think that you should shop this around to your local NPR affiliate, or PRI. (The visuals are great, too, btw.)
November 3rd, 2009 at 6:37 am
[...] Check out the following video, about Swift Industries, from the Path Less Pedaled. [...]
November 4th, 2009 at 11:56 am
HELL YEAH!
November 8th, 2009 at 9:31 pm
[...] on Path Less Pedaled If you haven’t yet, please turn to http://www.pathlesspedaled.com to view a wonderful photo essay and interview with Martina, here at Swift. We think you’ll [...]
February 13th, 2010 at 4:55 pm
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