It has been quiet here for a bit, and with good reason. A lot went down. First, there was this pile of bikes that showed up right at the end of the month:

That got fed into the worker ants lair:

Adorned with shiny parts:

Built into bikes:

Yeah, that's right. We rock cute puppy calendars here. That's how radically hardcore we are. Bikinis and girly calendars are sooo 20th century...

Then punted right back out the door:

A couple hundred frames came in on a Thursday, went through QC, the boys in production went into overdrive, and by the following Monday they were all on their way to customers, 120 of them as complete bikes. Some long hours were pulled in the process, and we want to slap a heartfelt high-five to them all – Aryeh, Joefish, Brian, Todd, Hightower, Chapin, Leif, Hoffman, Marc S, Andre, Sean, Will, Victor, Ryan, Sweetride, Danny B and Mister Blackstorm – you are all heroes. Especially when you dress up in sailor costumes.

In the middle of all this, we had our company xmas New Year “just happy to be here”, pre-February party. Things got a little out of hand. Okay, that was a lie. Nobody from here was involved in trying to park a car on the guardrail overlooking the boardwalk, but that action did just take place about two blocks from the ol’ cannery here. Just yesterday. Pretty awesome photos there…

And, right after the shipping mayhem was done and packed out of here, this showed up:

Phase one of the Ariel and Abby “How many sets of tires do you think we’ll burn through this year?” demo tour. Trailer got wrapped up all purty by Chris at Cadillac Designs, now we just need to get the van done, then the trailer and van outfitted, then wait on the parts for the fleet, then build the fleet, then the kids can hit the road. Fingers crossed. Their route is beginning to take shape, and it looks something like this. More or less. Don’t quote me. We’ll have a proper schedule up here and on the site in the next week or two, once we are sure we can actually get this rolling monster out the door in time.

But yeah, it’s been a bit hectic. Sorry. Now that we’ve got our feet back under us though, we will quit while we’re ahead, and leave you with some totally unrelated trials motorcycle slow-mo video:

Daaaaang….