Ibis Chooses Lopes, Lopes Chooses Ibis
Howdy ibis People,
Scot Nicol here, writing from Laguna Beach in Southern California, where we’ve just inked a deal with World Champion Brian Lopes to ride for little old Ibis Cycles! This is great news for you, for us and for Brian.
If you don’t know already the quick story on Brian is that he’s currently World 4X Champ (his fourth set of World Champion stripes), and has been World Cup Champ Six times and USA National Champ 9 times.
Brian is obviously a super talented rider, and beyond that he’s a personable and approachable guy who is a lot of fun to be around.
The great news for many of you Ibis distributors is that Brian has a very busy worldwide travel schedule and wherever possible will be happy to participate in events and promotions for you on behalf of Ibis. In fact, starting in early April he’ll be flying the Ibis colors for our Philippine distrbutor Pinoy Bikes at the 6th Annual Terry Larrazabal Bike Festival in the Philippines.
In addition to promotional efforts, Brian will be collaborating with us on our new product development, starting, well, a couple days ago.
We would like to encourage all of you to take advantage of our collaboration with Brian however you can. We are hoping to get a lot of new action photography with Brian and will share those with you whenever possible for your own promotional efforts.
Brian’s tentative schedule is listed below and also attached as a word document. Brian is open to visiting you if we can fit it into his schedule. We think you’ll enjoy riding and talking with Brian, he’s a great guy.
We’ll try to keep you all informed of Brian’s schedule as it is updated, probably though a link on our website and probably his.
Speaking of that, to learn more about Brian, go to www.brianlopes.com for the full skinny.
Please feel free to add this great news to your website, and don’t hesitate to contact me or Brian should you have any questions.
His email address is brian@brianlopes.com
We have one other piece of Ibis business today too. Tom will be sending all of you an email soon asking you to subscribe to our distributor list. This is so that we can more easily send email out to you, informing you of news from Ibis. Like this news about Brian Lopes. So when you see an email from IBIS HQ COMMUNIQUE, please click the link to subscribe.
Cheers, over and out.
Scot
BRIAN LOPES 2008 Schedule
April 2-10 Philippines Bike Festival/Race & also a 2 day adventure up the most perfectly cone shaped volcano in the world.
April 17-20 Sprint Avalanche in Lyon France or the Sea Otter in Monterey CA
April 24-27 Fruita Fat Tire Festival in Colorado (possibly)
May 3rd Poland for an invitational 4x event
May 9-11 WC #1 Maribor, Slovenia
May 17-18th NMBS Los Olivos, CA (possibly attend & race Super D & DS)
May 30-June 1 WC#2 Vallnord, Andora
June 6-8 WC#3 Fort William, UK
June 17-22 World Championship Val di Sol, Italy
June 28-July 5 Oakley camp session Whistler, BC
July 11-13 Downieville Classic Endurance DH, Downieville, CA
July 25-27 Kenda/Pedros Festival, Massachusettes (same weekend as WC#4 MSA. IF I am leading WC points I may attend race)
Aug. 1-3 Crankworxs, Colorado (same weekend as WC#5 in Bromont. IF leading WC points I may attend race)
Aug. 9-17 Crankworxs, Whistler (or Enduro race in France )
Aug. 21 & 22 Bearclaws invitational event on the island
Aug. 29-31st NMBS Tamarack, Idaho (possibly attend & race Super D ,4x, & DS)
Aug. 4-Sept. 7th Euro Bike (depending on if sponsors need me there)
Sept. 12-14th WC #7 Finals in Schladming, AUT (dependent on if I attend Euro Bike)
Sept. 19-21st Jeep King of the Mountain (location to be determined)
Sept. 22-26th Interbike in Las Vegas
This schedule is not permanent and there may be some changes and or additions to it. If there are any events in which anyone wants me to attend, please let’s talk about the possibilities.
