So much for my nap...

Oh yeah, so I went to Las Vegas last week for Interbike, the international bicycle trade show. This is the second year I've gone, which is weird because it reminds me that I've been working for the shop for over a year, and living in LA for almost two years.

Anyhow, the bike show was a blast. Saw lots of cool stuff like Timbuk2's new line of Single Speed bags. What makes a Single Speed bag different from, say, a Multi Speed bag? Olive and mulch colored canvas and corduroy, of course. These bags are awesome.

This photo was taken by Jeff Thrasher, one of my single speeder buddies from the shop. He was at the show taking photos for MTBR.com and has his own bicycle photo blog around here somewhere, but he won't give me the link until he updates it. Stay tuned.

I probably walked through the casino in the Venitian five or six times each day going to and from Interbike. Gambling is such a turn-off for me. The taller the buildings and the brighter the lights become in Vegas, the more I'm reminded of who is footing the bill. People who have delusions of striking it rich in a casino crack me up. The odds are SO against you!

We had some time to kill between the end of the show and our dinner date with Brad on Thursday, so Steve decided to hang out and play the slots for a while. He wasn't having any luck until I got a 'vibe' from the machine I was neglectfully leaning against. He feeds it his dollar and BAM, he wins 40 bucks. Not bad for the quarter slots... My eyes probably bugged out when the machines started to count up his winnings. I can see how that could get addicting. Yikes.