handmade bike show 2008 - it's a wrap!

well....... that was quite some gathering of the tribe! it was really great seeeing everyone! all the bike folks: DW, richard a deb sachs, bruce gordon, rody, bill grove, brian baylis, fred, the sycips, curtis and mitzi inglis, paul sadoff and simon, mark norstad, thursday, margo, peter weigle, the hunters, shawn walling, ron andrews, carl strong, mike desalvo, ron sutphin, the dirtrag crew, the folsons and the true temper gang, joe bringheli, all the frame forum freaks, all five wades, neil hassan, drew, ginger, dazza, the rebolledos, joe bringheli, kirk pacenti, steve beomke, liz and mark from spectrum, jim kish, and all the builders who showed and the groupies who made it happen, and to the flag crew and the ex-flag crew who showed up: yod, lisa, keenan & rylin, billy & libby, smithers, joe, stu, lars & julie, edie, dirtburner, vulture & jessica and jen & mike. i can't belive the cuban resturaunt was able to seat all 17 of us. the whole deal was overwhelming, i didn't get to see half of everything cool, saw some stuff that blew my mind, and saw some stuff i didn't think was cool, and saw some stuff that was just poorly done or was way too "concept car" for me. {how can you make that stuff and still find time to build bikes to sell?} and had some folks really dig on what i was doing. it seemed like everyone knew my name, and liked my fillets. there's no way i can convey it all, but here's some pics........ back to work tomorrow, steve.