Oct 2, 2008
Norwegian for “Spiffy”
We were lucky to run into the Rawland booth at the last minute, where we perused some beautiful hand-built bikes designed for 650B wheels. Rawland is a young, family company based in Minnesota, and they’re making two bike models, both with Norwegian names: the Olaf and the Sogn (Minnesota’s got a lot of Scandinavians). The Sogn looks like it really wants to go on some adventures… or just get you to the store and back (though we think that qualifies as an adventure in Vegas).
Oh, and the people we met from the company (the president, Sean Virnig, his wife, and a couple others) happen to be deaf. Their interpreter had left for the airport before we sauntered into their booth, but we managed to communicate with a mish mash of written notes, charades, and our mostly-remembered sign language alphabet we learned in grade school. Knew that would come in handy some day!
