OT - Tsunami Relief

Rivendell Bicycle Works is going to donate their December 30th profits from web and phone sales to the tsunami relief effort. Sounds good to me, time to order those fenders I keep talking about.......

From the website:

What good am I if I know and don't do,
If I see and don't say, if I look right through you
If I turn a deaf ear to the thunderin' sky,
What good am I?
-Bob Dylan, What Good Am I?

Common words like "terrible," "horrific," and "catastrophic" that we've all used to exaggerate misfortunes in our own lives seem inadequate when talking about the tsunami. The death count right now is 60 thousand and climbing, and is expected to reach 80 thousand at least. If 80 thousand were the end of it, that would be bad enough, but that number doesn't include the lives changed, the parents and children lost, the livelihoods lost, the futures wrecked, the dreams drowned, and the disease that will follow.

We aren't the news media, but it seems odd to not say anything about it. "We are sorry for the victims" doesn't go far enough. Who isn't? We want to help, and here's the plan:

We'll donate all of our December 30 profits on web and phone sales to a relief fund for the victims, and everybody who orders from us that day gets a $15 credit toward a future order. December 30. That's tomorrow.

There's a chance that somebody will think we're trying to cash in on the tsunami. That's not what's going on. We're just trying to raise some relief money, and this is the best way we know how. It may not be the best way, but we ought to get a couple thousand out of it.

-The crew here

yet another reason why I would love to have a Rivendell. It's obvious it Isn't just about the bike for them! Thanks for sharing that with us Snap! - and by all means get those fenders - you'll forever look at them a different way for this!

I bought one of their nifty new baseball caps - Lee had one and I was covetting it. It's made of a very soft brushed cotton.

Between my Riv baseball cap and my TE water bottles, I'm a walking/riding billboard for my favorite bike stuff purveyors. :)

jobob where DO you come up with these lines?? "subtle as a sledgehammer" ? I've started signing on here pretty much daily Just to see your lastest line! You are hilarious!

I actually have to thank Trek for that one ;)