yep, I was right, lot's ta yak about!

Today was a pleasant maelstrom of activity!  Started off quite but that didn't last long!  Met many a fascinating personages today and thanks so much for all the AWESOME comments, and I must apologize for the mess!  Re-pairs were flooding in (thanks for all the trust folks!  I love that so MANY people are realizing that you don't have to pay an arm and a leg to do so.  Nothing makes my heart sing then the look of pleasant surprise on peoples faces when they have decided they are going to start riding again and they want to buy a new(er) bike then the one they have rusting in their garage, and I inform them that it would be in their best interest to have us check out the bike they are planning on discarding BEFORE they buy another one (hey it's FREE to do so) as in most cases things seem worse then they are.  It may turn out that the re-pairs would be cheaper (besides it keeps one more bike on the road and one less in the scrap yard!)  Speaking of scrap yards!  A few days ago we picked up a '71 Schwinn Cruiser that was headed towards just such a sad ending, I spotted it in the back of a truck in the parking lot and asked the scrapper how much to keep it safe from it's impending doom.  We settled on a price, and I had it in the shop no more then a few minutes and a gentleman, buying a bike for his wife saw it and was truly enthralled with it.  He called back today from Sarasota asking if we had done anything with it.  Now mind you this thing while beautiful, is a rusted hulk.  He wants us to do a mechanical re-furb ion it but keep it looking just as is, rust faded paint and all.  He wants us to build a Sleeper!  COOL!
So all hands were on deck today and we bought us some KILLER goodies!  ANOTHER 3-wheeler, maybe this one will last to see the sales floor~  A sweet GT MTB, that Zombie-Boy DOVE on as soon as it came in, he's already done a full repaint (Cast gray, and black metal flake, GORGEOUS!) and was about to bite my head off 'cause I grabbed the Schwinn Ranger 2.6.  And that baby sold while it was still in the tear down phase to a WONDERFUL gentleman very enthusiastic about riding again for health reasons!  He bought the Ladies Hybrid for his wife (bless his heart) and even went right out and bought a bike rack for his truck and everything!  He;s REALLY getting into it!  More power to you sir!
And thanks for coming to us to the wonderful couple from up North, whom are AVID cyclists, and wanted to come and get a bike from US!  We are honored to have served you on your visit!
Thanks to James from New York whom SOMEHOW heard of us, and fell in love with the Xootr fold up bike.  Seems it's cheaper to buy the bike from us and pay to have it shipped up to him rather then go and buy one there! WOW!!  Again we are quite honored!
Jose' was in his regular form and pumped out three bikes and a score of re-pairs keeping us rolling!  I was bouncing about the shop helping folks out but managed to get a little farther on the three wheelers, and prepping the Schwinn as well as doing some re-pairs of my own, along with re-building a rear end for another 3wheeler we built a month ago.  Seems we screwed up on THAT re-build and missed a crucial problem with the axle, leading to catastrophic failure (it seized up) so the easiest solution was replace the whole assembly!  OUR BAD!  Well, that's the benefit of the 1 year warranty, and thankfully they weren't TOO peeved!  Again, DREADFULLY sorry!  Then when all was said and done my lovely wife came and relieved me as, sadly old age once  again reared it's ugly head as in the guise of a pulled back (either it;s old age or  a fat gut...either one)  so I came home a little early, only to find the hard work Angela had done today at cleaning had been...revoked by our darling children.  SO MUCH for relaxation.
But all ends well as they realized the error of their ways and had it remedy by the time Daddy got outta the shower! 
Smart kids.
Well tomorrow should be a cranked up day as we have plenty of goodies to build and hopefully the willpower (and ALOT of Advil) to do it!
Night y'all!