couldn't have done it alone

Probably the main reason neither of us could ever leave the bicycle industry is that there are just too many great folks in it, and we'd miss working with them. When we started talking about our own business, several of our friends stepped forward to help. I see their efforts in every aspect of PDW, and from time to time I'm going to mention them here on our weblog.

Leah Stargardter is an artist and a welder who learned to lay a bead while working for Seven Cycles. She moved to Madison with her parter Ahren Rodgers a couple of years ago from Boston and started building frames and really beautiful racks in a space they shared with ZR Cycles and Jonny Cycles. Both Erik and I were into some of the work she did for a bicycle art show last winter, and she offered to let us use some of it. We've incorporated them into our packaging and on the banner images of the website. This pic of her that I got from Jonny's flickr site shows her work space at the shop, and you can see some of her art on the wall behind her. Thanks, Leah!