On The Pegs April 2020 - Volume 5 - Issue 4 | Page 29

On The Pegs VOL. 5 ISSUE 4 - APRIL 2020 29 STORIES FROM THE ROAD Appearance is Just an Illusion Eight or ten years ago, I was driving to all of the National Enduro rounds on the east coast and I made friends with Ted Campbell, who was the rep for Leo Vince Exhaust Systems at the time. At the first round of the season in South Carolina, he was lamenting (whining, lol) about having to drive the Leo Vince sprinter all the way from the west coast for each round, so I suggested we work together. I told him, since I am centrally located in Oklahoma, if he would leave the sprinter with me and let me drive it to each of the races, he could fly in and at the races he would use the sprinter to display product and I would take his rental car around the course to shoot photos. Leo Vince agreed to pay for all my fuel costs and motels, so it was a win-win for both of us. I got to travel free, and he didn’t have to make 10 cross-country drives that year. When they needed to stock the sprinter, they would just ship product to my home. Well, the sprinter was pretty cool, and of course, it was wrapped in big, bold Leo Vince graphics. Since Leo Vince is an Italian company, on the back of the ve- hicle in big red letters it read: “Italian, Sexy and Cool!”, which was Leo Vince’s tag line. So, I would be driving down the highway to the races and several times a day I would see middle-aged ladies pull up alongside the sprinter and look over at me, expecting to see Fabio driving the sprinter. It stung a bit to see the disap- pointment in their faces when they saw it was just me… lol. n