I got my pin yesterday and took it for a ride on the Carradice tied to
the Quickbeam. Thanks for the pin!

On May 15, 5:08 pm, jinxed <hbcl...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Are you a member?
>
> So here is the story...turning the "way-back" machine to about 1996,
> some friends and I were sitting over coffee after a ride and started
> to recount how many times we had done this. As it turned out, it was
> apparent that not only had the vast majority of our rides (bike,
> motorcycle, skateboard, snowboard...) started or ended over coffee,
> but many of our good friends and riding partners were met at the cafes
> we were frequenting. We had a pretty good network that spanned darn
> near coast to coast. An "Association of Caffeinated Wheelmen" I
> blurted out while simultaneously sketching out a logo on the
> napkin....
>
> Fast forward to about 6 months ago, I was digging through some piles
> of artwork looking for something, and stumbled on my original sketch.
> All of the patches and hats we had originally done up were long
> retired, lost, or given away...so I got in touch with some of the
> original ACW's and told them I was going to mint some lapel
> pins...everyone chipped in to beat the minimums.
>
> Our whole thing was very tongue in cheek, but we wanted it to have an
> "old money-secret society-unleash the hounds" type of feel to it.
> Anyway after finding the iBob's / ROB's and meeting so many awesome
> people and reading about the network that exists between the riders, I
> thought it would be cool to expand the ACW.
>
> It's all for fun and conversation, and really just a bit of decoration
> for the bags, hats etc...but wanted to offer them up. I have @ 20-30
> or so left of the lapel pins, but we can do more if interest is there.
> We were also contemplating doing up some patches too?
>
> $6/pc shipped to you. Trades for your "club" pins is good too. For
> that matter no interesting trade would be turned down. Drop me line
> hbcl...@yahoo.com or just paypal me there with your info!
>
> Stay thirsty my friends....for coffee. ;)
>
> http://tinyurl.com/rx66y8
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