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The last six days are a blur of airports, snowbanks, friends (both old and new), lots of coffee and some really great times. We just returned a few hours ago from the Midwest where we had the great opportunity to attend Quality Bicycle Products annual Frostbike show. For PDW, it was a chance to meet a bunch of dealers from all over the country and have them check out our product line in person. We decided we needed a different approach to presenting our stuff, so we took a page out of the "art environment" installation play-book for our 6X8 booth space. After visiting some shops in the Minneapolis area, we hit the IKEA out by the Mall Of America and picked up a car load of goods you wouldn't typically associate with bicycle products.

The dinner table setting gave folks the opportunity to see some of our products both up close, and out of context. People loved grabbing the lights out of the bowls, the grips off of the platter and the utensiles off the table to get a better look. One guy even pulled out a chair, stuffed the napkin down the front of his shirt, grabbed a Poco in one hand, a 3Wrencho in the other and asked if we were going to be eating chicken with Stove Top.

Have a seat.

Radbot: It's what's for dinner.

Erik and I will be out of the office from tomorrow until Monday afternoon. We'll be on the road, well in the air then the road, to the midwest to visit some shops, old pals and to attend the Quality Bicycle Products annual Frostbike Show. We'll try to answer emails when we're out there, but we won't be able to ship anything until we get back. See you soon!

I was at Nemo Friday night watching gold sprints that were part of the Bridgetown Hustle festivities when the question was posed to me: "Are gold sprints really racing?" I argued that yes they are racing...but this flow chart seems to have answerd the question without doubt.

Not to take anything away from those who raced, or the efforts by Amanda, Kyle, Kyle and Ben from Nemo. You put together one heck of an event, and we were proud to sponsor it!

I heard last night that one of my heros of the pave, Bob Roll, was injured in a skiing accident. Broken femurs do not sound like fun . That is a bummer. Here is to healing quickly Bobke!

Late last night, I got an email from an old pal Chris out in NYC. Actually it was 5 emails, each containing one image:

"That's Lady Liberty - that 5-pixel tower in the distance. Been carrying that Co2 inflator on my road bike for a year. Finally got a flat! Deserved it, was railing henry street in brooklyn like singletrack after being cooped up 2 days running. But got back up and running and completed my mission. Your little do-hicky served me well."

Thanks  for the email(s) Chris. Very nice to see/hear a Shiny Obeject kept you from walking!

Most of our new shipment of Payload racks is headed for shops all over the country, but we've got about 10 of them in stock. If you are looking for one, the supply is here and you should be able to get them from your local shop soon.

We got this picture from Tiesuke this morning. Wow. I want to party in Japan.

I know we posted something about the Portland Tweed Ride a while back, but now the event is only about 2 weeks out. If you're around the Portland area on Jan. 30th, you should think about checking it out. You might even win a set of PDW Dapper Dan Grips!