Ladies and Gentlemen,
Its getting closer. Closer than we all think. We are 4 months to the day for Opening Day of NAHBS 2006. Its sneaking up on us all faster than we can imagine.
I know the builders out there are not panicking, they have plenty of time...figuratively. If you consider that it takes a painter anywhere from a week to a month and a half for a quality job, the stress level for all of us who plan on bringing our "A game" to the show goes up just a notch.
Anyhow, at this point, we have a wonderful lineup. I will spare you the details of each exhibitor, but here's a list of who is on board as of right this very minute. If I have forgotten someone in oversight, please forgive me. This truly is a "Who's Who" of bicycle framebuilding in the modern era.
Rich Adams Ahrens Bicycles/Mike Ahrens Joseph Ahearne Alpine Designs Anvil Bikeworks Accufit Designer/Bill Boston Brian Baylis Badger Cycles/Rob Pennell Joe Bringheli Calfee Design/Craig Calfee Matt Chester Co-Motion Columbine Cycles/John Murphy Columbus Tubing Nick Crumpton Roland Della Santa DeKerf Cycle Innovation Mike DeSalvo Vincent Dominguez Jenny Frayer Freight Baggage M. Feeney Cycles Bruce Gordon Henry James Christian Igleheart Independent Fabrication Jonny Cycles/Jon Kendziera Kaisei Tubing Chris Kelly Litespeed Merlin Mint Cycles National Insurance Professionals Corp Mark Nobilette Tom Oswald Paduano Racing Paragon Machine Works Patrick Cycles/Greg Gardner Paul Components Peacock Groove Cycles Tony Pereira Mauricio Rebolledo Retrotec/Curtis Inglis Richard Sachs Bill Rider Rivendell Rock Lobster/Paul Sadoff Steve Rex Brent Ruegamer Santana Charles Schlesinger Soulcraft Spectrum Cycles/Tom Kellogg Strawberry/Andy Newlands Carl Strong Bob Summersett Jamie Swan Sycip Design Thursday Bicycles Dave Tiemeyer True Temper/Alpha Q United Bicycle Institute Don Walker Waterford Precision J. Peter Weigle Phil Wood Vanilla Cycles/Sacha White Vicious Cycles Vulture Cycles Mike Zanconato Zipp Speed Weaponry There are still more exhibitors signing on almost daily and this list will continue to be updated every few weeks. We are still waiting to go "live" on attending the show registration on the website. Working out a few bumps in the road, so to speak. For those who are wanting to exhibit but have not signed up yet, we have about 30-40 booth spaces left since we moved to the larger hall at the San Jose Convention Center. I am still reserving some of those spaces for the Japanese builders and a few of the builders from the U.K., but there is still some room left. I hope that everyone is as excited about this show as I am. DW