Brady also had a couple of revolutionary designs to include;

At the end of the day however, we only have so much money to direct towards new products every year, so in light of the cutting edge technology that I've personally devised, Im afraid the other submissions might have to sit on the back burner until next year;

The one only known as 'Famous Author' also took time to submit a design, but based on my unwavering love of monkeys, I've decided that this wont end up being one of our new bikes, but rather will actually be the head badge on the new line;

Aside from immersing myself into my new self appointed post of Swobo product manager, I got busy cutting the tubing to length for my new beernet and trying it out for a test run in which I killed a can of beer in right around 15 seconds flat.

I have a sneaking suspicion that before the year is through, my new accessory will lead to some serious hijinx.
And by hijinx I mean barfing.

Speaking of which, (the hijinx, not the barfing) Erik sent us a link for a blog all about two previously unassociated activities, that seem to go together as well as chocolate and peanut butter;

"Might be right up your guys alley. At least it combines two of my favorite things...

Poleriders(dot)blogspot(dot)com

-E.D."

Now in the standard turn of subject matter that if you've been reading The Bummer Life for any length of time, I'm sure you have become accustomed to, Snake Hawk wrote in with a random thought that he felt the need to share;

"JESUS LIZARD!!!

One time, david yow was hanging from a rafter in a kind of small joint. they were playing wheelchair epidemic and he dropped from the rafters right on top of me.

my friend then jumped on him and the 3 of us were in a big gay pile on the floor. then david yow pissed his pants. it got all over my jeans. that was an awesome show.

later,
hawk."

David is truly a consummate performer who only cares about his audience's good time, as proven by this clip that we've showcased here before;

CFO emailed us with thoughts on the epidemic of rampant unprofessionalism that is spreading though the national cyclocross circuit like a damned virus;

"I guess they don’t take ‘Cross seriously in NJ either…At USGP’s no less….."

If this guy knows what's good for him, he'd better not show his face in Boulder, or else he will get a stern talking to.

Hey, lookit what Ben sent to us;

"for the tech savvy alcoholic..."

Thats pretty cool, but then again, I thought it was a lighter.
I guess once again, that proves when it comes to computification, I don't know my ass from a hole in the ground.

Say, did you all notice this weeks header shot? For the first time ever we're using a drawing as opposed to the standard photo which was provided to us by the skilled hands of Chris Koelle.

Thank Chris, and I can only hope now that you've been featured here, you'll be prepared for the parade of attractive woman pushing wheelbarrows full of cash up your driveway.

At the beginning of this post, I mentioned that I sat at a computer all weekend and designed imaginary bikes.
That was a lie.
I also ate some food and took a shower, but beyond that, I excused myself and did a mostly off road, 50 mile cross ride to celebrate the 50 years on earth that our friend Mr. Suzuki has experienced. (I call him 'Mr.' because old people like to be shown that sort of respect.)
I wanted to include a photo of him riding a skateboard back in the day with his creepy little pimp moustache, as that was when we first made one another's acquaintance, but sadly I was unable to procure such an item, so in lieu of that, here's a photo of him riding up the l'Alpe d'Huez looking all jockish and doing his best Pantani.

Happy birthday old man. As I emailed him earlier, even though he's 14 years my senior, he's still able to tear me a new one when he wants to.

Later on in the weekend I ended up with a pretty neat little item which could conceivably draw me even further from the stone age. Its an ION turntable, which if you were smarter than I am, would allow you to record your vinyl records to your computer.
I've waited a long time for such a technology, but as it stands, it looks like I just have ended up with an incredibly expensive paper weight on my desk.

You would have thought that I learned my lesson about technology, but the bells and whistles caught me off guard once again.

If any of you all have any experience with this beast, I'm all ears.
-All ears and nothing in between.

Alrighty then.. I've got some other stuff on deck, but no time to get into it, so we'll part ways and check it out next time around.
As always, we hope you all had a rip-roaring weekend, and can grin and bear it until we get to do the whole thing over again.