Bob Roll & Kryptonite Visit West Broward Bicycle Center

At the bicycle industry trade show, Interbike, Kryptonite holds a dealer contest each year. Some years it's been a treasure hunt type of event, sometimes an event of olympic proportions, but the last few years it's simply been a business card drop and a lucky dealer has won "An Evening with Bob Roll".

Our last lucky winner was Kryptonite dealer Jose Pardo, owner of West Broward Bicycle Center. Bob recently visited his store and spent the evening chatting with customers about Le Tour, cycling in general and the future of the sport.

Our Eastern Regional Manager, Eric Anastasia, was with Bob and said it was a blast. Come to think of it Jose said it was great, too. And, Bob loved all the good questions. Sounds like I missed a fun time.....hmmm...I need to see about getting in on one of these nights soon...

Here are some more photos of the event. There is a strange effect to the photos that makes it look smoky or something in the room...it wasn't...just the photo itself...

Enjoy.

A full house!

Vintage Bob

I don't know....driving somewhere? Classic!

Road Trip

I spent the majority of last week visiting Bicycle and Powersport dealers with our 2 new Regional Sales Managers(Don - West Coast and Craig - Central) and our National Sales Manager (Roby). It was great to pound the pavement with the troops, speak with the dealers and really get a sense of what is happening in the marketplace. I spent Tuesday in Portland with Don and Roby visiting all of the major dealers - Shout outs to Mark, Dave and crew at Rivercity - what an awesome set up - expecially the test track upstairs. Got a lot of cool product ideas that we are excited about - keep em coming. Also got an idea for my oldest daughters 8th birthday gift (Specialized HotRock 20). We also spent some time out at establishments notorious for bike theft activity and was proud of the fact that a Kryptonite lock was the lock of choice. They are pretty serious about their bikes in Portland - seeing a multiple lock setup(cable and Ulock) wasn't uncommon and the Evolution ulock or New York Fahgettaboudit were everywhere.

Headed to Dallas for the second leg of the trip on Wednesday and spent Thursday with Craig and Roby visiting Powersport and Bicycle dealers. Being a former sportbike rider it was like being a kid in a candy store. I spent as much time talking to managers and store personnel about security as I did about the bikes. Thanks to the folks at Central Yamaha I now have my eye on a 04-05 Yamaha Vmax preferably black on black ( any sellers out there???) Psyched about the opportuntity to work more closely with many of the dealers in Dallas and Craig will be working hard to support them with some cool promotions and displays.

Being out interacting with customers and dealers is what its all about. Looking forward to hitting the East Coast next so look out for me I might just be in a bike or powersport dealer near you.

Not your average customer

Today we had a little vistor in our backyard. It seemed that a turtle had taken a wrong turn into our driveway and appeared lost so we contacted animal control to help our little friend back to the pond out of harms way. It seems our turtle friend was not lost at all. We learned that turtles go back to where they were hatched to lay eggs so this poor turtle made her way up a steep hill to go lay her eggs on the side of our building. We also learned from animal control that she will lay these eggs and bury them and in 10 days they will hatch and find there way to the pond on their own.

I wonder if she was stopping by to get a Kryptonite lock so nobody will mess with her eggs!

Melissa McPherson

(Photos Eric Anastasia)