Hello internet world. As you all know I have an injured thumb, so I’ve been off work for a week or so. Here’s my little buddy Otis I’ve been hanging out with. He’s just the entertainment I needed while I was taking it easy .
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I got my stitches out today, so I’m hoping to be doing some of this soon.
Well I went up to cleveland and rode rays for two days this weekend, and It was amazing. If you have ever been there you know exactly what I am talking about. If you havent then you are completely missing out!
So Last week I was at the Giant China factory, and now this week I’m over at the Giant Taiwan factory. I went up on the roof of the offices and took a couple shots of the factory to try and show how big it is. Everytime I come here I’m amazed. The Taiwan factory specializes in higher end adult bikes, particularly Mountain and Road as well as all the high end carbon fiber bikes for Giant and many other companies. You can see Semi Truck trailers down on the left. Click in it to see it bigger…
After working a long day Friday I managed to accidentally cut my thumb terribly bad on a broken wine bottle. I sat in the hospital for 4 hours, and received 17 stitches. Knowing that Saturday would be a sunny warm day you could say I was more than bummed out.
I’m over in China at our factory right now wrapping up 2011 bikes, checking over production and what not. Here’s a couple quick random shots from our China factory.  These aren’t all BMX bikes, but you get a glimpse of a very small fraction of Giant …
IÂ got this text today from Tony Cherry.
“It’s a beautiful 35 degrees out. Takin’ advantage of it. Woop!”
Looks like he and Troy are soaking up the sun and clocking footage in sunny Ohio…
Behind the scenes for quite some time we have been helping the whole Nitro Circus Crew with some bikes. So when they decided to do a tour on a Mega Ramp in Australia we decided to hop on board and outfitted them with a bunch of bikes.
Of course we decided to do something a little more special with Jolene’s bike. This is a little sneak peak of Travis Chipres building it. More video of actual riding and the tour to come.
Filmed and edited by Giant Photog Jake Orness on a Canon 7d.