Monday, September 28, 2009

blahs vegas

went to vegas (my least fave place in the milky way) last week for the rad interbike bicycle trade show to help set up and man the Focus Bicycles booth
Focus is a German bike company that is newly launching in the US.
their bikes are incredible gems of German engineering and are designed by professional racers!
vegas was an interesting backdrop to a tradeshow for the bicycle industry. there are, at present, no bike lanes there.
vegas is unreal. it's an intense and constant juxtaposition of excess and lavish ornamentation
against pervasive ugliness.
but all in all i had a great time and got to see some really neat innovations in bikes, like these ones made of bamboo!

2 comments:

Becky said...

We are going to Vegas in January for my work conference. I'm not very excited. Any places that we should make a point to see/avoid?

Rebs said...

I saw bamboo bikes in action on green planet. They have a program dedicated to sports-related green endeavors; pretty cool.

I secretly love vegas. seriously. Trade Shows in vegas are super rad. And the food is so over the top. I also like to collect the whore cards distributed on the strip. Did you get a bunch of those?