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Tuesday, October 03, 2006

What a week it has been.

Greetings everyone. It's been a bit. Interbike week turned into Interbike two weeks. The entire Salsa crew is back in the office this week. Thanks to Don and Katie for holding the fort down while we were gone.

Interbike was crazy. Not just for us, but for the industry as well. 20+ companies showed 29er frames of some sort. Luckily for Salsa, we showed our Mamasita. It's our new go fast 29er. It is Moto Rapido's bigger wheeled cousin. Twentynineinches.com even named it "Best of Show". It's light and fast. If you already know about it and are looking for images, spec, etc, we hope to get it added to the frame updates as soon as we actually get it back from Interbike and take some pictures.

Speaking of 29ers, a few of them were actually quite good and interesting. A few others weren't all that great. My only question to all of you that like 29ers is this. "Why are you or your customers paying for 29ers that are poorly designed?" I won't name names, but more than one very high end company was showing and selling frames that have issues. Not small ones, but big ones like the Reba fork crown hitting the down tube. This is poor design. Are there just not enough properly designed options out there where buying a frame with DT/Fork interference is your only choice? If you've got opinions you'd like to share, please shoot PMAN an email. Please don't send me hate mail. I'm genuinely interested in knowing why?

I'd also like to know why people take things that do not belong to them. You see, coming back from Interbike, one of our Dirt Demo trucks was stolen and we lost a crap load of new 2007 frames, bikes and products. Dealers and Salsa fans, if you see any of our new Orange Dos Niner or Red or Brown Ala Carte frames for sale or being ridden, it is probably hot since these are not available to the public. Please keep us posted. It was a huge loss for us.

Anyway, thanks to all of you that came to Interbike, checked out our stuff and said hello. It meant a lot to us. Interbike was crazy and the Salsa crew had so much fun.

OK, back to work. Only a few hundred emails left.

Jason

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