"Did you know that marketing departments generally have the messiest desks in the bike industry? Do you know why?

Nope, it's not the stacks of magazines or loads of sponsorship requests that take up all the space. It's not the piles of market research either. It's the tradeshow samples and products for photo shoots that went out in perfect condition but came back with tiny scuffs and scratches. It's the clothing for our team riders that didn't quite fit and all those creative colour choices and laser etching experiments that didn't pan out the way we thought they would. All stuff that can't be returned to inventory and sold so it inevitably finds its way into my office and becomes...crap on my desk...."