Moots Profiles
Finisher Extraordinaire
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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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Sales Director/Sales Monkey
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Road warrior….
I’ve been abducted…..not really but I feel like it. I’ve been on the road since last Friday with only a 24 hour re-charge back in Steamboat. My travel started on May 28th with a drive to the front range of Colorado to visit dealers, spend the night and do a demo day at Evergreen Bicycle Outfitter. Home for Sunday and headed back out for the big one on Monday am….A 12 day trip to California…. I then drove to San Diego, Ca to start my Tour. Mainly by sprinter van for me unlike the pros back in February on their bikes. I am traveling with bikes, so I have been able to get a ride or two in, a couple of swims in the Pacific and have managed my way through southern California traffic like a pro. That’s no entirely true as I have a Garmin GPS unit guiding me to my destinations. I call here “Money Penny”…she talks to me and IS the money! Tonight I’m in Santa Barbara after a long 4 shop day, with some of La’s finest bumper to bumper 75 mile an hour on the 6 lane you can imagine….I made one last stop at a shop called Veloworx in Santa Monica….a nice shop, very pro. You know a pro shop when the owner is gluing up tubulars……like a pro.As I rolled into Santa Monica I had to laugh at a guy standing in the divider holding a sign that read:
“SPACE SHIP BROKEN, NEED PARTS, CAN YOU SPARE SOME $$?”
He looked pretty spacey to me….and I needed a laugh after the traffic I had come through.
More shops, a bike festival, a ride and maybe more broken space ships on tap for tomorrow.
Take me to your leader. 1800 miles covered.
5 June 2009
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Hey Jon,
I hope your travels are going well.
I have to laugh as Laura and I saw the guy with the broken down space ship a few weeks ago when we were in LA.
Thought of you on Thursday, the Turinberg was a killer!