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Thursday, July 28, 2005

Bikes, Bikes and Bike Parts!

Every so often I get a kick in the hind end and it puts things in perspective. Lately, I've been working on a bunch of things that just aren't that much fun. Late prototypes. Deadlines (and not meeting them). Hard conversations. Crash replacement frames. Evaluations. Yep...Even small bike companies have stuff they don't like to do.

Today I got that much needed kick. Joe, our industrial designer and fellow bike geek, got me fired up by pumping some new energy into a product idea. He even went so far as to do some drawings of his idea and set up a lunch discussion to talk about bike parts and ideas to solve a specific need for some of our future frame ideas. I was expecting great things to come of this concept and Joe, but Joe's enthusiasm just got me going. Geez, I love bikes and bike parts.

This kick was just what I needed as I head out the door for North Dakota. We've got a small family reunion going in Minot, North Dakota. Now I can spend my time riding the gravel roads of the greater Minot area thinking about bikes and parts rather than that other not so fun stuff.

Thanks Joe.

Butcher

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