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In the later years of my pursuit for a Mechanical Engineering degree I realized that I did not want to work as an engineer. I did a 6-month internship at NUMMI manufacturing in the Bay Area in 1997 as a quality control engineer. At that time NUMMI manufactured the Toyota Corollas, Chevy Prizms and Toyota Tacoma Trucks. The job was good but I knew that I wanted more out of life and wanted to someday successfully work for myself. After My internship I still had 2 years left to graduation from Chico State. I finished and got a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering.

   Now, my goal was to find some job to support myself until I could pursue my dream of working for myself in a very lucrative opportunity. I began exploring different avenues of self-employment, but sadly less than a year from my graduation I suffered kidney failure and had to undergo kidney dialysis 3 times a week for 6 hours each treatment for almost 7 years. I responded exceptionally well to my dialysis treatments and was placed on a kidney transplant list in 2002. To say the least this put a very large detour in my plans, but by having faith in Jesus Christ I knew that there was a reason that this happened and good would come from it someday. Through this very tough trial I learned a lot about myself and about people. I never gave up on my dream, but knew it would take time.

   While on Dialysis my friend Marilyn introduced the idea of selling motorized bicycles, especially since we live in a college town. I began to research on these bikes and liked what I found. During my time on dialysis I began to market these bikes on the Internet through a web page I built.

   Finally in July 17th 2008 I received a perfect match kidney, I am doing very well.

   Now my partner and I are continuing in our marketing of these motorized bicycles, both locally and nationally. We hope to expand out product line soon, to other forms of alternative transportation....