[pedsdoc]

 

[Dgremlin]

Never heard of the company. Where did you find them?

 

[summud]

I had a mushroom set on my freestyle bike back in the 80's....rad!

 

[ImaFred]

Haha I remember them... member the lil donuts they had to stop your thumb from getting blisters...

 

[rob1208lv]

Loved those grips on my free agent

 

[rodar y rodar]

Cool! There was a thread about A`me heated grips in Commuting last year. We didn`t have much faith in them, but it was a fun discussion. Anyway, nice to see products from home on the shelf (or on Amazon, etc)

http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=587665&highlight=heated+grips

 

[slomo]

Did you get 'em at one of the local shops or direct? I was gonna be lazy and order them online but doesn't seem worth the shipping to send 'em across town.

 

[pedsdoc]

Did you get 'em at one of the local shops or direct? I was gonna be lazy and order them online but doesn't seem worth the shipping to send 'em across town.

I got them at a local shop(Terry's). I was tempted to just walk into their office on Sunset Way.

 

[slomo]

Thanks, is Terry's the Bike Shop? If so, I know exactly where that is, Mike the eyeglass guy has done a few pairs of scripts for me.

 

[pedsdoc]

Thanks, is Terry's the Bike Shop? If so, I know exactly where that is, Mike the eyeglass guy has done a few pairs of scripts for me.

Yup, the Bike Shop.

 

[rodar y rodar]

What else comes from down there, and do any of you work making some kid of physical product? A company called ATEC makes pitching machines in Sparks. We have the Hidden Valley Ranch salad dressing people right behind us (their only bottling facility, I`m pretty sure), and the Michelin distributor used to produce tires for a few years. Ralston Purina makes generic breakfast cereals in Sparks (used to make dry dogfoor in that plant when I worked next door), and they still make dry dogfood at the KalKan plant going East on I-80. US Gypsum just closed down the Empire sheetrock plant and adjoining gypsum mine last month. I know there`s a company that makes garden hose out there too, and a lot of other plastic extrusion plants, but I don`t know what exactly they put out. Sure wish I did.

Currently, I do maintenance at the plant that prints National Enquirerer for West of the Rockies states and a ton of fliers for dept stores (the K-Mart, JC Penneys, Longs, etc stuff that comes in Sunday papers). Before that, I bottled Spice Islands spices until they moved the operations to DesMoines.