I finally was able to to talk to Paul McKenzie, Arkel's General Manager about why Yves is not included in any company photos.

Paul opined that it might have had something to do with the champagne lunch they served before the creative team meeting to celebrate the millionith customer to buy panniers.

It seems that at the following creative team meeting to present new ideas for panniers of the future, Yves went a little over the top. He bought in a new design of a bicycle for the production team to measure and make panniers to fit it.

They were annoyed and said it couldn't be done so Yves whipped out a 100 yard bolt of fuchsia fabric and took off on the bike with it flapping in the breeze. All 100 yards of it. Part of this was caught on video. Since then he's been relegated to being behind the camera. Permanently.

Paul added that in protest, Yves now wears all of his clothing made out of the fuchsia fabric and is sure that the trend will spread.