09.14.05 - counting the days to vegas

ah... me and all my bike geek friends are meeting in vegas to check out all things cool. and some silly things too. we are all going to INTERBIKE!

silly things i saw last year:
1. remember how i said hot babes at some booths to attract the drooling guys to come over and check them out, er, the bike part out? well.... lets imagine the exact opposite. imagine an overweight lady in her 50's wearing a dress for a hot 20'ish model with makeup that looked like it was put on by a two year old. i was scared to go over and tried not to look at her. very scary.
2. a bicycle. with a skateboard for a front wheel. yep. so you turn fast. for some reason you can't turn fast with a normal bike wheel. (guess they haven't seen me...ha, ha...) when i asked the guy riding the thing what happens when you hit a little bump on the road and the wheels get stuck in it, he got mad and road away.
3. a cheap version of a segway scooter thingy. very annoying as they road up and down the isles. guess he didn't realize it wasn't a bike.
4. chopper bicycles everywhere. some people thought they were cool. how silly.
5. a boom box that worked off a generator on your back wheel. oh ya, and the generator also lighted some neon lights on it too. sweet. you can pimp your ride.
6. some guys made a dragster out of a REAL dragster and then had some intricate series of cranks to build the thing up to speed. took them twenty minutes to get the wheel going fast enough, but when they let it down, watch out! yep, it actually spun the tire and sent the "rider" and the "dragster" flying down the road 50 feet into a tree. it was all on video tape. quite spectacular.

that's all i can think of...

jeff kerkove will be at the show too, and i think karl will be there as well.

in other news, not much going on. freaking out about cross bikes, thinking of parting ways with my giant cross bike and picking up another -- and thinking of getting a new road bike. both are going to moots - the standard cross frame and the compact road. decisions.....

got some new links to get to all y'all, but don't feel like posting them yet.

ew, in other news, speedgoat has some new ASYLUM socks out. and, word around town is that there may be some more clothing with ASLUM on it.... going out to shop to find out what's up with next year right before vegas. should be fun, sneak in a ride out at the mountain. maybe challenge the best time record they have for the little jaunt of a climb they have in front of the shop. maybe come back down to the pie shop afterwards and celebrate with a choclate chip cookie or two. or three.

yummy.

well, gotta run. trash man coming tomorrow. i can talk a lot of trash, but i sure hate taking it out.

thanks for checking out the blog.

sologoat out.