DannyB laid the above strip on us, and for that we are forever grateful.

Have you all missed George like weve missed George?

"dude, No time for details, but I'm packing up for a 4 day CO mega trip which includes the Monarch Crest Trail ride. Damn.

With any luck you'll be able to get off the album spinner and pull your head out of your ass via the bicycle taint massager!

happy weekend and much love to all,
G"

I know Ive said it before, but Georges life looks pretty sweet.

Now then, would you like to see an email from Tim?

"This reminds me of the movie Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang, where the king rounds up all the children and banishes them to a dark, dank cave."

Then lo and behold, he got back to us with a real honest to goodness visual aide.

So this here peach of a gal down below is named MaLora Ann, and shes the brains as well as the brawn behind the very popular Lovely Ladies on Beautiful Bikes calendar.

Anyhow, she got ahold of us to see if we could help out with a gigantic bike polo hodown up there in Seattle. We sent her some goods and in return, she did the same;

Stevil!

It was a fantastic turnout with teams from Victoria and VanCouver BC, NYC, Oregon, and all over Seattle.

Photos:
Ladies of Tour de Polo with new Swobo Jerseys!

Gentleman's winnings!

Playtime:

And all of the rest of the photos are here.

We had a grueling summer sunny weekend of nothing but polo, with 15 teams playing each other for total domination. Over 16 hours of play, over 200 games. It was amazing!

Thanks for the support SWOBO!

- MaLora Ann"

Thanks for the thanks, MaLora Ann. Your parents obviously raised you right.

Wouldnt you know the just as the doctor told me to cut back on the drinking, International Canned Beer Month rears its head?
And just so you all know, staying on the wagon hasnt worked out so well for me.

Especially last night.

Waggle got ahold of us with the awesome;

"Heres a funny article i read. Lets start with the fact that I drive a car yes but i don't try to combine outdoors activities with my car unless my car is taking me somewhere rad such as to a weekend of backpacking (antonymnous with car camping) or to other such radness. currently the scanner isn't working but you'll have to go with me on this one theres a link.

Common Sense Wonder (dot)com

hmm yes i see that Patagonia has expensive stuff but it will take you to way more radder places than Eddie Bauer or LL bean and the stuff will most likely last longer. I'm sure that this may come as a shock to Autoweek but I'm assuming that many people if not a fine majority at Patagonia ride a bike to work. just a thought but who is autoweek really pointing the morons of the month finger at. glass houses my friend- glass petroleum polluting houses.

John"

All I gotta say is Amen.
Oh, and that glass houses suck balls in hail storms.

Patron saint of bike messengers, Squid caught up with us to let us know how his seed is doing;

"Keiran is 13 months now!!

Have done a few 15 milers with him around the urban jungle..

-Squid"

Looking at the picture of the little one just made a lightening bolt of brilliance come down and hit me on the head. Seeing as El Corpo doesnt really have enough on his plate, what with the designing and the sourcing and the what not, I think its high time we launch the 'Swobaby' line. 100% Merino footy pajamas?
Are you smelling what The Rock is cooking or what?

Pete wrote as well;

"I imagine the University of Wisconsin is upset they didn't think of it first.
Bike valet parking.

--Pete"

Forward thinking is what I like to call this.

Regarding the broken link that Ben sent on Wednesday that I so deftly replaced with a photo of Princess Lea and Luke about to get it on, he re-forwarded it to me, so if you wish, and I know you do, go here.

I would also very much like to include an email we got from TinaB thats all about this little number;

You like? Then you should probably add this to your scraper bike.

And last but not least, Russell;

"Surely everyone knows that the beast is in realty. Duh...

Ride fastly-

Russell"

Im pretty sure Ive got about another 200 emails to include, but Ill be damned if I can motivate to do so.
Are you all gonna have a good weekend?
I plan to, however Im supposed to officiate a wedding, and weddings tend to cause me fairly serious anxiety, so well see how this works out for me.

Might be sweet- It might be a disaster.
Im betting on the latter..