Just stumbled upon the ACW pins and I fell in love. What are the chances 
these could be re-upped. Pins or, even better, patches. I would really be 
happy to get one of these. Is anybody here the original producer of these 
goodies?? Let me know. Cheers, David S

On Friday, May 15, 2009 7:08:31 PM UTC-4, jinxed wrote:
>
> Are you a member? 
>
> So here is the story...turning the "way-back" machine to about 1996, 
> some friends and I were sitting over coffee after a ride and started 
> to recount how many times we had done this. As it turned out, it was 
> apparent that not only had the vast majority of our rides (bike, 
> motorcycle, skateboard, snowboard...) started or ended over coffee, 
> but many of our good friends and riding partners were met at the cafes 
> we were frequenting. We had a pretty good network that spanned darn 
> near coast to coast. An "Association of Caffeinated Wheelmen" I 
> blurted out while simultaneously sketching out a logo on the 
> napkin.... 
>
> Fast forward to about 6 months ago, I was digging through some piles 
> of artwork looking for something, and stumbled on my original sketch. 
> All of the patches and hats we had originally done up were long 
> retired, lost, or given away...so I got in touch with some of the 
> original ACW's and told them I was going to mint some lapel 
> pins...everyone chipped in to beat the minimums. 
>
> Our whole thing was very tongue in cheek, but we wanted it to have an 
> "old money-secret society-unleash the hounds" type of feel to it. 
> Anyway after finding the iBob's / ROB's and meeting so many awesome 
> people and reading about the network that exists between the riders, I 
> thought it would be cool to expand the ACW. 
>
> It's all for fun and conversation, and really just a bit of decoration 
> for the bags, hats etc...but wanted to offer them up. I have @ 20-30 
> or so left of the lapel pins, but we can do more if interest is there. 
> We were also contemplating doing up some patches too? 
>
> $6/pc shipped to you. Trades for your "club" pins is good too. For 
> that matter no interesting trade would be turned down. Drop me line 
> hbc...@yahoo.com <javascript:> or just paypal me there with your info! 
>
> Stay thirsty my friends....for coffee. ;) 
>
> http://tinyurl.com/rx66y8

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