hello all! well, its true that edwin had to shutter up for a bit'...the result of some cruddy luck with the electrical upgrades and not being able to find a sugar mama to support me..ha hah ! We ALL need that right? I am back to work on my other gig for a short period and will be hitting the ground running to finish up the wall of mainframes that need rear ends...no comments please. In the interim, I will be busy slaving away to recoup lost money and figure out a better way to come at it.

See you guys in September!!!!

so its tuesday, and after spending more time talking and thinking about money than I ever want to I think I can safely say that edwin will weather this storm. I have learned two things from this experience that all can benefit from: 1) banks don't support small buisnesses 2) always get a second or even third quote from electrical contractors.

I am back in the shop today to finish up a pile of frames that Nate mitered up over a week ago; and then hopefully we can start the cycle again and again and again.

Special thanks to all the awesome folks that came forward and offered to invest with us, your kind words and encouragement really helped to make this happen!

Stay tuned, more bikes to come.....

so some of you are already aware, but edwin cycles is in trouble. Apparently there is some impression that we manufacture money and the power company really made life miserable for us. After acquiring a new CNC mill and horizontal mill (the green meanie) and taking steps to bring three phase power to the shop, I was informed by the power company that we had to pay an 'impact fee' because we were putting more demand on the overall useage. Hmmm, 200 amps of power was WAY more than we needed, and I think the average household still consumes more power than we do (I cite my residential bill, also in Heber, runs about 65 a month, Edwin runs at 100...and its just spinner and I at the house!). So, after being forced to dish out nearly 3k  (2988.00) and another 6K for the power upgrade (???how the hell did that happen?) we were cleaned out. I am now living on 200 bucks in my wallet....So, thank you Heber City Power and Light, for the arbitrary fee that you still cannot tell us how it is calculated and refusing to even take payments.....maybe we should be in the public utility buisness??? (oh, and when I asked when they would connect us after I paid, I was hung up on by the office person.....do they know I am an angry New Englander?) Any Lawyers out there want to work pro-bono???

so the new bike designs are now off the paper and on the trails! just got my first ride in on the new frame design yesterday and all I can say is 'nice!' . I am biased, but frankly put, no one has more mud clearance than us. Lose those gay ass shaped stays and go with something that works! All this talk about strength increase from bent stays is crap, total crap. The reality is, like the shaved leg argument...someone likes the look of it and then generates a campaign to support it so they don't look vein.  The bikes are spec'd with 20mm bottom bracket drop, allowing extra clearance for cranks, yet not too high that the bike feels skittish on baby head infested descents. The ultimate test, the no-hands descent on dirt, was administered flawlessly..a good sign of a good wheelbase. Okay, nuff blabber and bragging.

so there is nothing quite like staring at a little bright light and having the lovely taste of nickel in your mouth! I imagine I will die of some form of blood poisoning at this rate! ha ha. Just wrapped up an X-small mid mountain (full suspension). Came out great, minus one 'blip' on the toptube/headtube/downtube junction. Hell, call it a collision actually, the miter on the toptube looked like a figure 8! fun times. Anyhow, built a nice fixture after a quick call to the kind folks at Fox to determine the shock width with reducers...worked slick! who knows, might be figuring this stuff out huh? ha ha. New gussets coming, I will post some pics!