Like untold thousands of American inventors before him, Dan Martinson created something new after a bit of frustration at the limitations of a standard product he had sitting around the house. In Martinsons case, it was bungee cords. I found it very difficult to keep anything on the front of my ATV without a lot of hassle, he said.As an outdoorsman, he wanted a Bezel and Numeral Marker-Black Leat connection to tether gear on his ATV. He needed some of the same qualities of a bungee cord, though he envisioned a product a bit more rigid, flexible when bent, resistant to sun and water, grippy, and endlessly reusable on trip after trip outside.
CannondaleSobe pro Matthew Lee leaves Helena headed for Butte while he maintains a forty mile lead on the chase group of Kurt Refsnider, Joe Meiser and single speeder Chris Plesko as Tour Divide racers roll into Day 5. The field of 42 riders is beginning its process of natural selection as riders begin to fall off the back and their SPOT Replica Corum Classic Automatic Movement Silver Case with Diamond trackers show them finding towns with transportation back to civilization. Most riders have reported bear sightings. tourdivideMy friend Steve McGuire phoned me late last night from behind a taco pizza in Big Fork, Montana.
The fruit of his thought process -- and eventual investment in the machines to make an esoteric product -- has birthed a company called GearTie LLC. Its based in Medina, Minn., and what the company makes can only be described as giant twist-ties like what you get on a loaf of bread.But instead of a covering and a breakable wire, the line of GearTie products includes multiple sizes of durable, rubber-coated wires.They twist, wrap, grip, and Bezel and Numeral Marker-Dark Brow cinch onto bike frames, canoe paddles, skis, and sleeping bags rolled and packed away. Martinson sums up the invention by calling it a reusable rubber twist-tie. GearTie products come in sizes from three inches to 32 inches in length. Their thickness increases with length, upping the amount of weight the ties can handle.