Night Ride w/ Kona Bikes at Central Florida & Orlando area MARKHAM WOODS MOUNTAIN BIKE Trail

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT
Me:
"Today is Wednesday, February 20th and I'm about to pull into the Markham Woods trail. Let's go for a ride."

Two Orlando area bike shops collaborated with Kona bicycles and on this day they showed up with the Kona factory van and a full fleet of demo bikes for riders to try out.

Me:
"Now I'm here with Wilson, he's out of Richmond Virginia with the Kona demo truck, awesome setup here and all of these awesome Kona bikes. What can you tell us about Kona bikes?"

Wilson:
"Oh man so we've been around for a little bit over 30 years now, one of the last few independent mountain bike brands in the US. Yeah so we make all kinds of bikes we make bikes that are a good time have fun on, we make a range - so out here I've got my long travel enduro bikes, I've got short travel cross-country bikes, I've got hardtails that are fun for trails and going fast, I've got some gravel bikes - we have a new gravel bike out this year that's a good time on trails or the road. Yeah man I mean we're all about having fun on a bike and out there."

Me:
"Awesome! Well we want to thank you for coming to our Wednesdays at Markham ride it's it's quickly becoming one of the premiere weekly off-road rides in the Orlando area."

Wilson:
"Sweet! Awesome!"

Me:
"We're stoked to have you here."

Wilson:
"Glad we've been able to work. Yeah it's cool to see all
the enthusiasm in Florida."

Me:
"I'm here with Kyle from Kyle's bike shop."

Kyle:
"What's up John?"

Me:
"What's going on man?"

Kyle:
"Going good"

Me:
"Good deal. So tell us - people that are
interested in buying a Kona Bike, tell us about your shop where you're
located, that sort of thing."

Kyle:
"Sure, so yeah we're in downtown Orlando in the milk district in downtown. Wwe've been at Kona dealer since 2008,
pretty cool company to deal with we've always had good relations with them. One thing I like about Kona is they're a small company who has a big reputation. They're kind of rider owned, rider developed... everybody that works with their company rides, so you can tell when they put the packages together that these are
people that care more about the riders and say maybe the bottom end."

Me:
"Okay so am I correct in thinking that you are one of two Kona dealers in the greater Orlando area?"

Kyle:
"Right, that's right. There's this awesome new bike shop now in Sanford they're also a Kona Dealer you know so we worked together on this Kona demo to where it could be right in the middle between the two shops and we both came and help out and we're really far enough away to where we're really only helping each other grow the brand."

Me:
"Very cool, very cool."

Me:
"All right I'm here with Matt from...


Matt:
"...Pedal Driven in Sanford."

Me:
"Sanford. So you are one or two of two Kona dealers in the
greater Orlando area?"

Matt:
"This is correct."

Me:
"So if people on the north side of town and further want a Kona bicycle they would come to see you?"

Matt:
"Come to see me."

Me:
"What else can you tell us about your shop and especially in relation to Kona here?"

Matt:
"So we are Kona a shop obviously, we sell Jamis also, love everything steel,love hardtails, all that good stuff, yeah we just have a shop you want to come hang out and that's where we're gonna try to be very inviting. Come by and have a cup of coffee!"

After an entire afternoon of test riding various 2019 Kona bikes the riders turned their attention to the Wednesday's at Markham weekly night ride.