on April 28th I will be sending my application in to the state to see if I can get Eight Zero Two Cycles registered. If they do not approve it, I will have a secondary choice on there in hopes that one will fly. It is Pomegranate Cycles. I thought this one up well after the original but it has grown on me so much that I have been beating myself up on trying to decide. Every time I thought that it was possible to get either name, I hesitated because I couldn't pick one over the other. So, I have decided to put 802 Cycles as my primary and Pom Cycles as my secondary. This was reach based only from the order in which they became possibilities for me. Pomegranate is such a cool name. The fruit is great. It has so many benefits as well as many symbolic meanings. Just like cycling! It is harder for me to think of a reason not to use it than all of the reasons why I would want to.
Therefore, fate of the name will be decided and hopefully solved before May 1st.
STAY TUNED!
Friday, April 24, 2009
Sunday, February 1, 2009
an epiphany of sorts
A little life lesson to carry with me on my journey in frame building:
My daughter had a pot luck lunch for the parents at school to celebrate the classes first success at writing a story. They were all individually made up and written by each of the students.
(warning: you have to turn it up to here the story, but beware of the clapping at the end.)
As I listened to my daughter's story, I started to realize that there is a lesson to be learned in the innocent thoughts of a seven year old. She told of a jewelry store that she owns and make beautiful pieces that she would hope that everyone would want to buy. She then continues to say that know one does because they are too expensive. What causes prices to go beyond standard comprehension? Why do things that are seemingly the same cost so much different from different sources? After the story was over, I said to myself that I can solve that problem for her. She would just have to find a different way to offer her jewelry to her customers at a less expensive price if they were going to be able to buy them.
Thus, my epiphany! I want to be able to sell my frames to people. I want them to be able to afford them. How? There has to be a way. Everyone that builds frames has the potential to source things from the same companies. This makes it surprising to me that so many different builders can demand such different and elevated prices. Don't get me wrong. If you can do it, it just one more reason that we have such a great country. The real question is why would you want to spend more. No one drives around looking for the most expensive gas to put in there cars. Everyone is always looking for a better deal. There is no real reason that if you love what you do, that you would need to make people pay exorbitant amount for those people to have it. I am a furniture maker and cabinetmaker by trade. I only build custom, one at a time, designed for the purpose intended. I will take that mentality with me into building custom bikes and not at the expense of any of those people that may wish to have something a little bit more than ordinary.
My daughter had a pot luck lunch for the parents at school to celebrate the classes first success at writing a story. They were all individually made up and written by each of the students.
(warning: you have to turn it up to here the story, but beware of the clapping at the end.)
As I listened to my daughter's story, I started to realize that there is a lesson to be learned in the innocent thoughts of a seven year old. She told of a jewelry store that she owns and make beautiful pieces that she would hope that everyone would want to buy. She then continues to say that know one does because they are too expensive. What causes prices to go beyond standard comprehension? Why do things that are seemingly the same cost so much different from different sources? After the story was over, I said to myself that I can solve that problem for her. She would just have to find a different way to offer her jewelry to her customers at a less expensive price if they were going to be able to buy them.
Thus, my epiphany! I want to be able to sell my frames to people. I want them to be able to afford them. How? There has to be a way. Everyone that builds frames has the potential to source things from the same companies. This makes it surprising to me that so many different builders can demand such different and elevated prices. Don't get me wrong. If you can do it, it just one more reason that we have such a great country. The real question is why would you want to spend more. No one drives around looking for the most expensive gas to put in there cars. Everyone is always looking for a better deal. There is no real reason that if you love what you do, that you would need to make people pay exorbitant amount for those people to have it. I am a furniture maker and cabinetmaker by trade. I only build custom, one at a time, designed for the purpose intended. I will take that mentality with me into building custom bikes and not at the expense of any of those people that may wish to have something a little bit more than ordinary.
Friday, January 2, 2009
bikes not pipes
man, I did some plumbing tear out in our house a little while ago. I had such the time with capping just TWO pipes. I am pretty sure that I just wasn't getting it hot enough. But, I hope that I have better starting luck with building frames than I did with this project. This is the better looking of the two. Bottom line: I am not interested in plumbing at all!
Saturday, December 20, 2008
getting closer - 2009 is just the beginning
Have you ever been ready to start something so bad that your mind never rests. That is where I am now. Of all the information that I have gathered, it seems as if I can't get enough of it. I have a good list of tools that I will start purchasing. This may in fact be slow going at the start. In fact, I have to tell myself that so as to not get discouraged along the way.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
RUNNING WITH SCISSORS
Assuming that I am going to be able to obtain eight zero two cycles for the name of my bikes, this will be my blog that will demostrate the development of this passion of building frames into a business. I have to send in my request to reserve the name with the state and if approved, I am set to go. If not, it is pretty much back to the drawing board. I have become quite attached to this name. I have laid out a preliminary design for a head badge. Quite honestly, I like it so much that if I can register the name with the state, it will be the design I use.
I plan on taking a class on welding at the local tech center to refresh on some skills that I have not used in about 12 years. This will surely be beneficial to me. I have been doing tons of research and there is so many things that I have to get in order to make this happen. A business plan if you will. I will not go into that here, but rest assured it is a task in itself.
You know that scary exciting feeling of the unknown? When you don't know why but you have to do IT. This is IT. Just like running with scissors!
I plan on taking a class on welding at the local tech center to refresh on some skills that I have not used in about 12 years. This will surely be beneficial to me. I have been doing tons of research and there is so many things that I have to get in order to make this happen. A business plan if you will. I will not go into that here, but rest assured it is a task in itself.
You know that scary exciting feeling of the unknown? When you don't know why but you have to do IT. This is IT. Just like running with scissors!
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