Moots Profiles
Matt has one big leg. What makes his big leg bigger than his regular leg is a titanium rod in his shin. You wouldn’t notice unless he pointed it out to you, but his right leg is a bit bigger than his left.
Even bigger than Matt’s right leg is his heart. A strong, honest soul, he’s one of those people that can disagree without hurting anyone’s feelings.
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Dave and I share milk. He typically beats me to work by at least a couple of minutes, and is on his way to the coffee pot with a bag of Big Gear Grind by the time I lug my yawning self up the stairs.
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Every morning I sit at my desk picking at the emails that have sprouted overnight. My desk faces the open door of the sales floor, leading to the stairwell. Reliably, the third person to come upstairs every day is Caleb Franklin, lead finisher turned welder. Caleb is putting away his lunch for the day- which almost always includes cheese and crackers, and he’s followed by his ‘Short Tailed African Cougar Hound’ Luther –my favorite shop dog.
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If you build it they will ride…..
That’s all I could come up with as I piloted the Moots mini semi through endless miles of interstate lined with corn fields. I imagined past cycling hero’s walking out of the corn and rolling away down the many miles of white gravel roads. They were all there, Coppi, Bartoli, and Taylor ….all on Moots of course. Sorry for the cheesy movie analogy but I had nothing but time to let the mind wander. Out on the road today the most excitement I had was a swarm of some type of insect hitting the windshield and making a really cool splatting noise at 73 MPH……what ever they were, they left a nasty amount of “bug juice” on the Sprinter….next stop, car wash.Once in Indy I had the pleasure of stopping in at our Moots dealer, Nebo Ridge. Located in Carmel….Tim Cassidy has assembled a great staff of people who are dedicated to cycling. They have a very cool layout in the shop, road, mountain and cross. An “open” service area to let customers see the skill of the mechanics at work. In the center of it all a true Italian espresso machine pumping out the goodies……heaven for tired driving eyes. I went to dinner with Tim at a local Zionsville institution called Friendly’s….and yes they were friendly. I had as Tim put it “the local special of deep fried steak, something you don’t want to tell your doctor about”……my only deviation from a fairly clean diet out on the road. A stroll around Zionsville with Tim and his wife and it was time to part ways.
Once checked in to the Super 8, that really is not that super in any way what so ever, I made a call out to Mootsboy to meet up for breakfast….I saw the poll over on the forum after the call….now it’s public…if I turn up missing bikes you know where to look.
Tomorrow, off to Columbus Ohio and beyond….1300 miles in the can…..1k to go!
21 July 2008
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Hey John,
Hope your trip is going well. Any chance your coming past to drop off my long missing crosser personally? If your travels lead you past my door,I would love to take you out for a ride.Let me know. Talk to you soon. --Scott
Scott...I’m not going to make it that far south...frame shipped last week, should be coming through your door any moment....cross season is not far away!!! Can’t wait.
talk to you soon,
Jon
yeah where is my long lost psychlo=x?
wait did you have to order that, or were you just sending a few out?