Hmmmm are you a pitchman?

Surprised you can go that slow without falling over? Or were you going really fast using your jersey as a sail?

Nope, be there selling our product (www.ducksproducts.com)

Sometimes I'm impressed with my ability to remain upright at the speed I'm cycling.

Do you work home shows?

First day on the Pinarello in months. That is one amazing machine, well except the totally wasted 1988 105 rear derailer. I think there's a nice Suntour ARX in the junk bin. Might have to give it a whirl.

We did one. That was one too many. We just do arts and craft shows, mail order, and wholesale.

Ah, I work a lot of h&g shows. Sauces usually do really well if you know the right ones to go to. I've been doing this for years and there are some crap shows

Might just be the ones here that don't do well. Most people that go to home shows in this area aren't going to spend money that day, we just end up being a free lunch. We have been in business for about 13 or 14 years now and arts and craft shows seem to work pretty well for us. We have done plenty of flops and generally stick with the same shows every year. We are trying a couple new ones this year just to see how they go.

The business is just my parents and myself. We have friends and family help from time to time but it is primarily just the three of us. My parents are both retired and I work full time for the government so we don't really want to do any more than we are doing now.

Woah! CF minivelo:

http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NDA2WDYxNg...hvZg~~60_3.JPG

Nice, I'm in the pitch biz...so that's why I do so many. I also carry a few products of my own.
glad to hear its been good for so long.

Puke

Want. just needs some Hed Jet wheels on it. yes Hed do make Jets that small.

How so? Look at it this way: throughout most of humanity, up until the 1840s, everyone would have been very impressed with how quickly I can routinely travel across land. In 2-3 hours on my speedy bicycle, I can travel what used to be a day's journey.

Quite the modern marvel.

STFU Gomer.

qft

I think they'd marvel more at the infrastructure. And maybe your parachute jersey.

These people I know start racing, they upgrade to Cat 3, and they subsequently become complete and utter Road Nazi aholes. I see it time and again.

Absolutely amazing, really. The sport is so utterly skullfarked it's utterly mind boggling. I see very little of this in guitar playing. People get better at it and it's not like they are made from Instant DBag Mix.

The ultimate irony is that no matter how fit, fast, skinny and ripped you are, the rest of the world views you as a road obstacle/target/poser/moron and they would just as soon flatten you as look at you. On the other hand, you can suck at the guitar and the civilian population thinks you're cool just because you can strum a friggin G chord.

I think I'm getting better on the guitar, and maybe I am. Then I hook up with my new guitar teacher in Manhattan, and you get a load of his technical facility on the guitar in person, and you just have to shake your head. This sort of thing used to make me want to put my guitar into a wood chipper. Now it makes me hope a smidgen of this guy's knowledge will slowly permeate my pathetic brain and fingers.

Don't get me wrong, I suck @ music, and yet, when I go to these blues jams I think I'm better than 80% of the mopes in the room (or will be within six months once I have my guitar playing **** more together). It's like a Cat V race with like one fast guy who's going to drop the field (I'm in the field).

musicians are equally as snobby...if you don't think so then you don't know an musicians...

Not in my experience. I know it's out there, but here in local music circles where everybody sucks, it's not happening.

In bike racing it's everywhere.

i play guitar...all my musician friends are expert level phenomenal, i wont dare play with them unless I'm drunk, and I hardly drink anymore...


OTOH I'm better at cycling than they are....

I'm married to a musician. She seems alright.

do you play? are you as good as her?

Woooo! 10th place on Bike Forums Strava for ride time this month. 34th in distance. Slowness confirmed :)