Sam News JAN 6

January 7, 2009

Mark and Jay built up three Sam Hillbornes yesterday and today--a 48, 52, and 60cm, so we got the pix on the site here. They came undecaled, but with decals separate, and they're the waterbased, slippery kind that we're not that good at, so we wrecked two for every one we successfully mounted. There's one close-up of the decal, and it looks bubbly and lousy, but when the factory decal mounters mount them, they will look good.

We have one more green one to build--a 56--and then the other prototypes are a blue we aren't going with, and these will get Protovelo decals and eventually be sold.

The Sams are good, and I'm really eager for people to get out on them. Latest word: Mid to Late March. We'll have a backlog of orders, and they'll be assembled in the order ordered.....