October 5, 2011

Sponsorships

If you're among the huge crowd that stopped by my humble space at Minnecycle, you saw the nearly-complete cyclocross frame for Pallas Athena's one sponsored racer, Erin Young. Erin is in his first year of racing and has been crushing it at the track and at cyclocross, without any structured training. In addition to his cyclocross frame, I'm building him a track frame for the 2012 season. The AGRS wraps up soon, and I'm also reponsible for building a frameset for the men's winner. And lastly, discussions at Minnecycle have made inroads toward getting my head badge on a local team's jersey. More on that as it develops and more information on sponsorships here.

Custom Dropouts

Been talking with Josh from Three Stars Cycles and Alex from A-train Cycles about collaborating on a set of custom rear dropouts. The cool part of them is that they'd be created in such a way as to leave us each with the ability to modify them according to our branding -- in my case, adding little owls to them. More on this as it develops.

Minnecycle Recap

As most of you on my mailing list are from the Minnesota area anyway, you already know about how Minnecycle went down. For those that haven't been following along, I posted a whole recap of the experience, including links to a multitude of pictures online. Give it a read. While you're doing that, I'll be handling a lot of crap that was neglected due to the show.