On Nov 15, 2007 10:42 PM, Dale wrote:
> I have a frame building video, made at Huffy Special Projects facility in Ohio,
> in the intro LeMond is pictured riding a silver Huffy and Mike Melton is credited
> with making for him... The body of the video is of Mike making a track frame
> step by step. Now whether that is really true or not.....
That sounds very interesting!
> That reference to Taco Bell makes me laugh, remembering the amazing
> LeMond/Taco Bell water bottle incident.
>
> Apparently Taco Bell planned a huge nationwide LeMond promo in which
> they would give away Specialized made water bottles in their haute cuisine
> establishments... Within a few days of the kick off, some 5 year old flea
> brained imbecilic child chewed the top off the? plastic flow valve and
> swallowed it. Taco Bell freaked out and withdrew from the campaign,
> and thousands upon thousands of those water bottles clogged up
> Specialized's warehouses. They couldn't sell them either because they
> had Taco Bell's name on them.... I ended up with a few cases through
> industry skulduggery and gave them away.? ?
Ahh, now I know the rest of the story as they say on the radio. I bought a few of those for a buck each at a Dollar Tree store and wondered what the deal was. It's good to finally know even though those bottles are long gone.
Peace,
Tim Victor
Greensboro, NC