HEY FOREIGNERS! I’m finding newer, cheaper shipping quotes via big scary cargo boat. For those interested in importing a CETMA Cargo bike (or ten), this might interest you. Example: $350 from Portland to London, minus import taxes. Please tell your prime ministers.
New punch, major game changer. This tiny monster eliminates a major rack production bottleneck—drilling the damn holes.
Conservatively guessing, I’d say I’ve drilled at least 300,000 holes over the last few years. All that ends with this punch.
It used to take about 6 minutes to drill the ten holes to make a rack. Now it takes about twelve seconds.
Yesterday, the famous Kiel Johnson (http://goo.gl/3Nr6p) visited CETMA headquarters to pick up his Margo. This bike will soon be home to the Go by Bike shop at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), which Kiel operates, and will be available for rent. Article here: http://goo.gl/Es7p1
Kiel’s a good guy, genuine and sincere, and one of those people that seems to be a magnet for unusual and strange events. Know the type?
Kiel rented a Zipcar and drove here in the evening to pick up his bike. Before locating my shop, he called for directions, saying he’d pulled into the wrong parking lot and was being accosted by some shirtless fat guy who was shouting and threatening him to “call the law” if he didn’t get lost fast. Kiel told me the man was very angry and had the biggest and roundest naked belly he’d ever seen.
Later, at my shop, Kiel realized he’d locked his keys, wallet, and phone in the car. We called Zipcar (using my phone) to get them to unlock the door via remote, but they couldn’t do it because the car was somehow out of range or something. Zipcar arranged for a company called Pop-a-Lock to come over and an hour later a van pulled up and a HUGE fella got out and exclaimed, “HEY, I HATE TO ASK THIS BUT YOU GOT A BATHROOM?? I GOTTA TAKE A LEAK AND THIS WHOLE THING WILL GO MUCH FASTER IF I CAN USE YOUR BATHROOM FIRST. SERIOUSLY, I NEED TO PEE—IT’S NOT EASY BEING DIABETIC, Y’KNOW!!!” By now it was dark and raining and then the Pop-a-Lock guy got an umbrella and told Kiel to hold it while he cracked the lock. It’s not easy to explain, but the situation was really funny to me—all these oddball occurrences snowballing into bizarrdom.
