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·I got to go to the 05 Dealer Expo in Indianapolis yesterday and words cannot fully explain this show. It is not open to the public and since I (aka weasel) got in and past security I was like a mad dog in a meat house. It is so big it took up all the convention center and into the dome. We walked for over four hours and didn't see all of it.
As soon as I walked in the door I was stopped and trying to figure out which way to go and as I am looking straight ahead, two feet from me a guy walks by and I am looking at him face to face thinking "I know that guy" well I blurt out "Hey, that's E Boz" He stops and turns around, smiles and says "hey, how you doing"
I end up in the Italian section and as I am looking at the Pistal pistons, which BTW are absolute works of art, the guy behind the counter says "don't I know you"? and I said no I don't think so. He says "oh well, I'm Bruce Meyers" and I say THE Bruce Meyers, like BCM Ducati Bruce, yup it was him. We talked for a while and moved on.
Then I run into Jolene who is THE distributor in the US for Brembo and Marchesini and talked to her for quite a while. It was interesting, they had a badly bent Marchesini magnesium wheel with a wrinkled spoke and three huge areas pushed in at the rim and it was still in one piece.
Also saw Larry Pegram and Antron Brown the drag racer and at no time beyond thirty seconds were there half naked umbrella girls and show models parading around. I mean everywhere and the girls that are the ones on some companies posters were there to.
The absolute coolest item I saw at the show though has to be the Brake Tech Axis Ceramic brake rotors. Yeah I know they cost $1,600 but it felt like a paper plate in my hand. They are supposed to have better bite than iron and they weigh NOTHING, I can't imagine how big of an impact on turning these things would have. They were THAT impressive in person.
As soon as I walked in the door I was stopped and trying to figure out which way to go and as I am looking straight ahead, two feet from me a guy walks by and I am looking at him face to face thinking "I know that guy" well I blurt out "Hey, that's E Boz" He stops and turns around, smiles and says "hey, how you doing"
I end up in the Italian section and as I am looking at the Pistal pistons, which BTW are absolute works of art, the guy behind the counter says "don't I know you"? and I said no I don't think so. He says "oh well, I'm Bruce Meyers" and I say THE Bruce Meyers, like BCM Ducati Bruce, yup it was him. We talked for a while and moved on.
Then I run into Jolene who is THE distributor in the US for Brembo and Marchesini and talked to her for quite a while. It was interesting, they had a badly bent Marchesini magnesium wheel with a wrinkled spoke and three huge areas pushed in at the rim and it was still in one piece.
Also saw Larry Pegram and Antron Brown the drag racer and at no time beyond thirty seconds were there half naked umbrella girls and show models parading around. I mean everywhere and the girls that are the ones on some companies posters were there to.
The absolute coolest item I saw at the show though has to be the Brake Tech Axis Ceramic brake rotors. Yeah I know they cost $1,600 but it felt like a paper plate in my hand. They are supposed to have better bite than iron and they weigh NOTHING, I can't imagine how big of an impact on turning these things would have. They were THAT impressive in person.
