Cool Bike Invention

My brother showed me this:

http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/24062009/36/cyclists-divert-cars-laser-beams-0.html

I think it should be accompanied by a second laser that will blow up any vehicle that enters within the lane. Bwah ha ha ha

New Hours?

Been thinking about changing things up lately.

The idea is closing Sunday and Monday. This would allow the three of us (Danny, Tony and I) to all get 2 days off a week (good for us) and to have 3 people working the shop during all business hours (good for the customers, and us).
We've just gotten busy enough that it is getting stressful to run the shop with just two people, particularly when those two people are running the floor and also are mechanics trying to complete several repairs that day.

So, I guess I'm throwing this out there looking for a little feedback from our customers. Does this seem like a bad idea to you? Will you swear off Bikeworks for life? Or will it be a non issue?

A big boy business would probably do something like analyze the sales data, crunch some numbers, and decide if it's a wise choice. But I'd personally prefer to base our decision on anonymous responses to a post on our blog.

So if you would, please let me know what you think.

thanks
Dan

Missie the Missle : Say it aint so.....

Just saw this....

http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2009/jun/18/0618_cyclistmissile/

That's just a bummer. Guess being an ex-world champion doesn't pay the bills.

Also, awesome websites:

http://thisisphotobomb.com/

http://www.sexypeople-blog.com/

And awesome videos that I found thanks to How to avoid the bummer life






Bueno bye

Getting all roadie.

Been putting some miles in on the road bike lately.
Yesterday Swintoni and I raced in the Sandia Crest road race. It was good times. That is certainly a hard race. I'm hoping I finished somewhere mid pack in my race (the Cat 4, 5's race).
The highlight of the event for me was getting to race on my dirty new wheelset, a pair of Edge Composite rims laced up to American Classic hubs, with tubular tires.
Check out their stuff:

http://www.edgecomposites.com/

I also just noticed that they have an unbelievable demo deal, details described on their site. They are willing to let you ride a pair of their wheels for a week for free! We're talking about $2,000 wheelsets being loaned out to strangers for abuse. That is how confident they are you are going to freak out about how your bike rides with a hot wheelset on it.

I was freaked out a little yesterday riding my bike with my new wheels. Being a light guy, I have never experienced coasting past people like that before. I think riding a completely different bike, but with standard box section wheels, would have felt more familiar than my bike with these new wheels on it. But I quickly got used to them, and they are fantastic.

Anyways, I'm a little excited. Tomorrow evening is the Tuesday Night Crit, and I'm excited about that too.

Also, this sunday is the Ben Hall Memorial ride. It isn't really a race, just an organized, very difficult mountain bike ride around 10K, Faulty, etc, that many people will try and do as fast as they can.
Ben was a good friend of ours, who got killed in 2004 in Moab during a mountain bike race. Every summer since then, Hawke Morgan and Stevie at Fat Tire have put on this memorial ride, which is really cool. There will also be a potluck afterwards at Doc Long. Check out the details:

http://www.bcdracing.com/epic.html

The Bikeworks guys will be there, and hope we see some of you all out too.

Hope everybody has a good week.

Never go to work.

I took today off, it was sweet.



I painted the ceiling in my kitchen. And you know what that means! Next time I'm not at work, I'll be painting the walls! Yay.

We had some fun the past couple of weekends not being at work. Thanks everybody for putting up with our ridiculous hours and letting us go play. None of that for a while, back to the ol' grindstone.

I'll have some hot hot bike porn to show off soon. Like Danny and my new wheelsets, Edge carbon tubulars laced up to American Classic hubs with Sapim spokes, hand build by danny, weighing in at 1080 grams a set. Ohhh dirty. Never had tubies before, guess if your going to do it, might as well do it right.

Smooches