The North American Hand Made Bicycle Show was last weekend in Portland.
Cheryl and I happily paid our entrance fees and promptly ran into the GB of all PGGBs Nate.
After that it was a taut Cornhusker thread tying everything together with the Meschkes repping Signal Cycles, Rick Hunter repping Monkey Wrench, Steve Potts repping Nebraskans (scroll down to the bottom), and then we happily found out that Chris King’s ONLY print ad in any publication is in Lincoln Ve-Low.
Feeling good and proud of our homeland, we kept the streak alive with former NE GBs Katie, Kirk, and Chad. Honorary Huskers were there too, including Bob K, Kevin I, Michael L, Lori D, Michelle P, Natas K, Reese F, and over 4,000 other familiar friendlies.
I guess the whole shebang is going off again next year in Indy.
We're going to try hard to be there and suggest you all do the same.
Here's a flickr set of some of my photos for looking at with your eyes.
Monday, February 11, 2008
NAHMBS
Monday, July 16, 2007
My Hump
Reason #1 for the Portland visit was to attend my friend Jon's wedding.
It was so kick ass I can't even explain it to you.
Portland rips and the ceremony was right in the center of downtown at the Chinese Garden. That also rips. 
And I got to take my sister Annie as my date. More ripping!
Anyway, congrats, Jon and Cel! May you have more happy days together than you know what to do with. 
El Norte (west)
Went to stay with Annie in Portland and randomly called up Slaven a day ahead of time.
He magically located a sweet ride for the entirity of my visit (one of his work buddy's Trek Pilot—a relaxed northwest-specific trainer w/clearance for fenders) for my visit and then dragged me around the area hills for two days. 
Matt's doing great and sends his hellos and howyadoins back to all the Lincoln folks.
He's working for Portland's Bike Gallery managing all the inventory between their seven locations and racing a ton. I guess you can race 7 days a week in and around Portland if you feel like it. Makes everyone out there pretty fast—Slaven included.
Thanks again, Matt. Awesome town goin' down.
