Live from Las Vegas
Interbike Trade Show, Sands Expo hall, Las Vegas, NV
Ok folks, so I am here, still alive, and have not gone stark raving mad yet. A few panic attacks, but I am surviving! The food here is still mediocre or worse, but at least it is expensive! In fact as far as I can tell, everything here is exspensive. About the only thing that has improved in all my years coming to Vegas for the trade show is the availability of coffee. I actually found a place in the Venetian that serves a decent Cappucino, and they use Illy coffee! Still expensive, but at least I can get a decent cup of coffee!
The big question everyone seems to ask is "what caught your eye, what's really cool?" Well I confess to being rather jaded, and probably am rather hard to impress, but I have found a few things that look good. While not a complete revelation (we have already sold some) the 2007 Campagnolo groups are very nice. Campy has put a lot of effort and though into their 07 product and it shoes. I truly believe the they have the best crankset design on the market today, and it extens from Record all the way to the least expensive Mirage groups!
There may even be hope for those of us in the Pacific NW who want a nice fast road bike, but would like to haver REAL full fenders. A number of bikes are available that have raod geometry and fender clearance. You can bet some of these will make it to the fitting stand at Spoke & Sprocket.
Another great product, that most of you will never see - but will be of a great benefit to our website sales is an upgrade to our Point Of Sales software. Edge Technologies is releasing an integration module that will directly import the shopping cart data for orders from this our website into our POS system. This will greatly speed up our web order processing and allow us to tie in inventory with the website. It will also eliminate the possibilty of input errors!
But, best thing so far? What really caught my eye? Not even for sale - but free from Wheels Manufacturing, stickers that say VEGAS SUCKS move interbike to Colorado! Yeah! You can bet I am displaying mine proudly!
Jim Couch
Ok folks, so I am here, still alive, and have not gone stark raving mad yet. A few panic attacks, but I am surviving! The food here is still mediocre or worse, but at least it is expensive! In fact as far as I can tell, everything here is exspensive. About the only thing that has improved in all my years coming to Vegas for the trade show is the availability of coffee. I actually found a place in the Venetian that serves a decent Cappucino, and they use Illy coffee! Still expensive, but at least I can get a decent cup of coffee!
The big question everyone seems to ask is "what caught your eye, what's really cool?" Well I confess to being rather jaded, and probably am rather hard to impress, but I have found a few things that look good. While not a complete revelation (we have already sold some) the 2007 Campagnolo groups are very nice. Campy has put a lot of effort and though into their 07 product and it shoes. I truly believe the they have the best crankset design on the market today, and it extens from Record all the way to the least expensive Mirage groups!
There may even be hope for those of us in the Pacific NW who want a nice fast road bike, but would like to haver REAL full fenders. A number of bikes are available that have raod geometry and fender clearance. You can bet some of these will make it to the fitting stand at Spoke & Sprocket.
Another great product, that most of you will never see - but will be of a great benefit to our website sales is an upgrade to our Point Of Sales software. Edge Technologies is releasing an integration module that will directly import the shopping cart data for orders from this our website into our POS system. This will greatly speed up our web order processing and allow us to tie in inventory with the website. It will also eliminate the possibilty of input errors!
But, best thing so far? What really caught my eye? Not even for sale - but free from Wheels Manufacturing, stickers that say VEGAS SUCKS move interbike to Colorado! Yeah! You can bet I am displaying mine proudly!
Jim Couch
posted by Dr. Spoke at 3:05 PM
1 Comments:
Boy, I am happy to hear that there is hope for those of us who want a nice fast bike with room for fenders!
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