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It has been a busy week, the seasonal flu circuit finally caught up with our household, and while a drag, I am thinking we got off pretty lucky so far.  I made it out for a short spin today before the next round of rain started.

I am catching up on more than a few fronts.  There is a push to get our short run of production Ramblers out to their new owners before the year ends.  I am confident that will happen, even with all the holiday scheduling challenges.

You also may have noticed, either as a backer or in the side bar, that the Kickstarter project did not fund.  I am grateful for all of you that had pledged your support to our program, and disappointed that we were unable to approach our goal.   I am working on alternate funding to gat a smaller batch of bike into production.  At this point I have 6 prospective buyers and need to get to ten.  I will be re-opening the web storefront in the coming week for deposits.  With alternate funding and ten or more buyers, I can place my order in January and have bikes ready to ship in April.  Stay tuned here or the email news letter for details.

I am also reviving the leather wallet program I started about a year ago.  I have a new source of leather from Hermann Oak, that is much nicer, more supple, thinner, and stronger than the last batch of leather I had.  I have improved the design a bit with a money slot, as well as adding a couple of different designs.

I will be getting these out as fast as I can, and adding them to the web store as well.  This batch has red thread, there will be blue and yellow, think Rambler colorway.  The wallets are something I do for fun, thy are simple designs tat work well, and help get my sewing fingers back in shape as I get ready to work on some more bags.

Happy friday, I hope you are able to squeeze in some warm dry miles this weekend.

It is amazing to see the amount of potential energy stored up in the California dirt, every year once we get out first solid wave of rain things start to explode.  Millions of acres of dry brown grass and dirt spring to life in waves of green.

The plants hold the dirt in place for the rain to come.  Growing up where perma green was the norm, and the soil drained, (Florida) I am still not quite used to the mud.

Some places here will drain and dry within a day or two.  But there are spots like this that will stay mud pits for the next 4 months.  The catch is that this particular mud pit shaves miles off of my cross town errands, once again I am glad for the fenders, also know as mud guards in some parts of the world.

What seems like a week’s worth of rain finally abated, and the wife coaxed me out of the garage to go for a ride.

The smile would lead you to believe I did something right, but I am pretty sure it is just the fact that she likes her bike ;-).  We went for a cruise around town, scoped out the new playground, and checked the surf.

It has been big lately, other commitments are keeping me out of the water.  I need to make the time, but the recent run of overhead waves would likely drown me.

 

Are you getting tired of seeing just me in ALL the Rambler pictures?

Believe it or not, I have devised a fantastic solution.  Ramblers are going to be available to the growing hordes of fans, but first I need you help to get production going.

 The catch you ask?  There is only one, if we do not raise the cash to get the production going, well, it is just going to take longer to get a Rambler between you and the road.  In a nutshell, without Ramblers being sold, it is hard for us to keep having them made.

We NEED your support to make this happen.