Black and Yellow

So yesterday morning I got to go out to the Mavic Service Coarse, located somewhere in Colorado, to see the place and talk about possible volunteering opportunities. It was everything I thought it would be and a little less obvious than I would expect.

I met with Mark N. in front of the shop before work at like 8.30 in the morning and proceeded to bombard him with questions about his job and Mavic and how I can become apart of something so big, or small.....

How did I get this opportunity and invite to this place you ask? Right place at the right time. The shop I am working at was throwing a Mavic demo party show casing the companies new aero wheel, or first aero wheel, the CRX 80 and I happened to be there. Drunk.

With a beer in each hand, both mine, I stumbled towards a tall man wearing black and yellow and started my begging to see the big yellow van parked outside. This man was Mark and even after just getting off the road, literally drove straight here in the Sprinter,  he was eager to show me the inside.

Wheels! And Tools! I was blown away! I instantly started imagining myself working out of this thing, helping cyclists and next thing you know words are coming out of my mouth about how would one go about being apart of all of this and helping out. For some crazy reason he invited me out to the shop to talk about volunteering and supporting.

Bamm!!

We chatted and he loaded my backpack up with swag and showed me his shop and told me his story with Mavic. He even let me go through his tool boxes, open cabinets, look in boxes and touch and hold every wheel hanging. Wow!

I'll get into more detail about Mark and the shop later but will leave you with a few photos.

Pedros

Crashed at last years Tour of Colorado

The tallest stand given to him by Calvin Jones