So much to post about before I make pancakes and go off to custom bike land.
Thanks to an old friend, who sent me a link on dumpster diving. An activity which I routinely took part in during my time in Ann Arbor.
Two great things you’ll love about dumpster diving….other than the fact that it is the greatest way to recycle…and it shows how little the youngsters care about grandmother earth…..is the fact that-
1. I made enough money dumpster diving each year to pay for all my college and dental school books/cousepacks/notes/etc.
And you thought I made it all by working for $4/hr as a bike mechanic.
2. You’ll never know what you’ll find…Each spring in Ann Arbor, they have…or had…the naked mile. In the most hippie sense of the term, if you’ve ever ‘made it’ in terms of a protest, a gathering, a love in, or whatever….this was an event that ‘made it’. Here is the naked mile in a nutshell. Its about 5000 of your buddies that you see at parties, on campus, etc…except for 5 minutes before the start, you all strip down and hang out in the nude. There is absolutely nothing sexual at all about the experience. If you were to close your eyes for that moment, you’d hear the sounds of a cocktail party – or friends hanging out – and that it beautiful. It is a testament that human culture can be civilized and beautiful. The thing that is super annoying, is that the crowd that lines the streets all have cameras…trying to capture (insert hot model name here) as he/she runs down the street. It does not happen and I”m sad to say that if my foggy memory serves me right, I stopped running my junior or senior year because of the danger of being arrested.
Anyway, dumpster diving one year, I found a photograph of myself running in the naked mile in a dumpster. I still have it. Maybe I’ll put it up at the shop.
On to cycling things. Paris Nice coverage starts on VS tomorrow at 3pm. I’ll be at the No Name watching cycling while everybody else watches March Fucking Madness.
In business news, I met with our accountants yesterday and Horray! the bike shop made money in 2009. 10 cents! Just kidding. Actually, I have to pay about $12,000 in taxes because we bought a car, and paid$50,000 toward a business loan last year. Thats cool. I’m down. Thats why I”m going to work in 45 min.
And work is good. Its busy. So busy I’m running out of note pads…
Some very nice bikes rolling out of the shop…like this ‘his and hers’ Moots…so nice.
Yes, its a moots fest at the shop these day. And I’d have it no other way.
And last but not least, the race across the sky will be showing in PC on Mar 18th. I got the call yesterday. Basically I said ‘Oh yeah, I’ve seen that movie. Our shop showed it at Sundance” After taking the wind out of their sails, I offered to buy them beer at the showing and told them that we had a packed house and that the town would really appreciate the showing.
