Here’s an eight photo
tour of Interbike without one single bike image.
I’m experimenting by
posting the photos from Flickr. Each
image is an individual post. Not a very
slick system but it’ll work for today. I
just wanted to get these images up so I could get back to Seven Cycles specific
posts.
Anyway, for those that
missed the underside—and backside—of the Interbike and Vegas experience, enjoy.
Ghost of Trump: Arriving at one of the Vegasesque icons: The bankrupted Trump International.
I love how someone went through the trouble of removing all the letters but didn’t bother going any farther. Funny part is, the hotel is still in business—I know because that’s where I stayed.
Stripped: Stepping out of the hotel, this is the scene—not 50-feet off the strip. The Stalled Out Strip. So much construction in slow motion. It all looked shut down or on permanent hold. At least they’re working on obscuring the mountains.
Pink Elephants: Enjoy the artistic beauty found everywhere in Vegas. I also saw many white elephants but they weren’t paintings on walls. I think it’d be great to be an artist in Vegas. No matter how bad the ‘art’, it’ll still look good next to every other object around.
I'm trying: With all the ladies wearing “CHANGE” vests, you’d think that self reflective patrons might take that request to heart and change their lives. Oh well. I guess I misinterpreted the statement; I thought it was a suggestion but it turns out it’s a prediction—about what you’ll have left in a few hours.
Parking Lot Palm Trees. They look unhappy to be in Las Vegas. It’s like being at the beach—without the sand, water, or smiling faces. And, the palms stand watch over all the exhausted, broke, broken, and drunken losers; I think the palms start feeling the same way.
Reallucinate: When it’s finally time to go home, everything looks like this: blurred, doubled, confused depth of field. It’s all a reallucination but it still feels good because at least I’m heading home.
Recently we’ve
been doing a lot fatigue testing; many times it goes on 24-hours a day—and even
on weekends. This happens when we’re in heavy
R&D product cycles. In order to get
through our backlog of testing we often run Tessie—our in-house designed
fatigue testing machine—overnight. We
run through the night because, on average, it takes about a week to do one industry
standard DIN test cycle—if we’re constraining the testing time to a standard
work day. That’d be about 50 tests a
year. This isn’t nearly enough. We have slated over 200 tests for this fall
and winter. And, we use the fatigue
tester for other work, too—proprietary, for now. So 24-hours, and weekends, it is.
I think our fatigue
testing system is pretty cool: our
testing machine, our methodology, and the intensity with which we do testing. For example, currently we have a team of three
engineers, plus me, that are working on testing projects. Each person brings a unique and valuable critical
thinking element to the work. And each
person manages separate testing projects.
This enables us to apply what we learn from each test cycle in a very
effective and diverse way; we’re able to improve overall results and the
process itself very quickly.
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