The last few weeks have been really exciting for the Signal family! Sunday Cardinal is the newest member of the immediate family and is joined by the Signal's extended family; the cross team. It's coming down to the wire. We picked up the new team bikes from paint tonight and have them hanging in the shop along with a few customer bikes, and the Oregon Manifest bike and a frameset shipping out to the UK and it feels great to see what has happened here in the last month! We'll get you some photos of the team bikes as soon as we can. A huge thanks goes out to Pete. Not only does he race fast, he builds wheels fast! I think he was seeing how busy things were getting for us and he volunteered his skills to get the team tubulars all built up. GEEZ! What a guy. Seeing all these wheels hanging up ready for glue was a huge help for us, so thanks again Pete. This up coming weekend is packed. My brother, Andy, is going to be riding our Manifest bike for us as Matt and I have let out legs go soft over the last month. Looking forward to seeing everyone at this weekends events! We'll be rolling with bottles of vino!

She's here!

Announcing the arrival of Sunday Joyce Cardinal. Born on Sunday September 6th at 4:08 pm. 7 pounds 1/2 an ounce. I can't explain how hard the day was. It was beautiful and painful and long, and when I thought I couldn't take it anymore, there she was. Elizabeth pushed through some insane pain. I have no doubt she was on the edge of coping with it. Our baby girl is perfect and I can't stop staring at her. This morning I asked Elizabeth what she thinks newborns dream about. I was thinking that when you have nothing in your brain to dream about, sleep must be a bit dull. So today I took her outside and showed her the tomato plants and the shop where daddy makes his bikes. I let the sun warm her head. I hope she dreams about tomatoes riding bikes.

cyclocross news

It's been a productive few days. After being away from the shop for 4 days, Nate and I returned on Thursday and got down to business. The front triangles are all together, we've got chainstays on two of the bikes and we should have seat stays all done in the next day or two. Sticking s-bend stays on it a time consuming task when done by hand without robots. We're saving up to buy some robots to make it faster and easier (and more fun). We have a couple new bits that we will be adding to these bikes. I can't say any more, but if you look closely at our flickr page over the next few days, you might spy them.

And still no baby to report. We're now 9 days overdue, but not worried.