The Seattle Bike Show
Hi Folks, just wanted to give a recap of the Seattle Bike Expo. This was the first time I have worked the show representing America by Bicycle and Luke Manohans. I actually have worked it twice before for Santana Cycles. Because of my previous experience with the show, I knew that this was the the most effective expo in the country and we had to be there. People of the great northwest are die hard cyclists. It is not a question of if they ride in the rain, they just do. Down here in Socal, I have to admit that we are fair weather cyclists and that's fine by me.
My weekend started Friday morning with a canceled flight, a 4 hour delay, and a re-route to Denver. One funny thing about the flight, they showed " The Day the Earth Stood Still". I had already seen this steamy pile of remake bad idea and was not looking forward to it. The funny thing though was the scene where GORT the robot takes control of 2 airplanes and crashes them into each other. On the flight though, no plane crash scene.... I guess they don't like to show plane crashes on domestic flights to Seattle. So, we the audience are lead to believe that GORT is just happily flying his new toys all over Manhatten like a kid with a new slot car set. I dunno.... funny.
When, I got to Seattle I was pretty pooped and was starting to feel a scratchy throat. So, I tried to get a good nights sleep. When I woke up, I felt like I had gargled with broken glass and sounded like Harvey Fierstein calling from Mexico. When I got to the show, I come to find that our booth was outside in a giant tent. Not indoors as promised. On top of that, it had rained all night (what were the odds) and the parking lot tent had an inch of water that we all stood in. There were carpets but they were all soaked and everyone's feet were wet. I thought, (I am going to die... this is it. It started with a cold but I didn't take care of it, turned into pneumonia, and then I died.)
Well, I didn't die. I slogged it out and talked to hundreds of people, gave out all my catalogs and believe that we made some good contacts.
Luke
My weekend started Friday morning with a canceled flight, a 4 hour delay, and a re-route to Denver. One funny thing about the flight, they showed " The Day the Earth Stood Still". I had already seen this steamy pile of remake bad idea and was not looking forward to it. The funny thing though was the scene where GORT the robot takes control of 2 airplanes and crashes them into each other. On the flight though, no plane crash scene.... I guess they don't like to show plane crashes on domestic flights to Seattle. So, we the audience are lead to believe that GORT is just happily flying his new toys all over Manhatten like a kid with a new slot car set. I dunno.... funny.
When, I got to Seattle I was pretty pooped and was starting to feel a scratchy throat. So, I tried to get a good nights sleep. When I woke up, I felt like I had gargled with broken glass and sounded like Harvey Fierstein calling from Mexico. When I got to the show, I come to find that our booth was outside in a giant tent. Not indoors as promised. On top of that, it had rained all night (what were the odds) and the parking lot tent had an inch of water that we all stood in. There were carpets but they were all soaked and everyone's feet were wet. I thought, (I am going to die... this is it. It started with a cold but I didn't take care of it, turned into pneumonia, and then I died.)
Well, I didn't die. I slogged it out and talked to hundreds of people, gave out all my catalogs and believe that we made some good contacts.
Luke
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