On the morning after the Trail Blazers were ejected from the NBA playoffs, Jason Soejoto woke to an email from Coach Terry Stotts.
Stotts had a question about the bike.
The bike with the Parlee carbon-fiber tubing. The bike with the Enve carbon wheels and the Shimano Dura-Ace 9000 drive train.
The bike that had hung unsullied and unloved in Stotts' Lake Oswego garage ever since Soejoto and the rest of the gang at Western Bikeworks delivered the exquisite, custom-made showpiece in October.
Stotts was finally ready to roll.