Boomer Sassmann
About pages are lame. I’ve never enjoyed working on a personal bio page. I’m perfectly fine with public speaking these days, but for some reason crafting a few paragraphs about who I am and what I do in my spare time just seems forced and awkward.
However, since this page is specifically a bio page, I’ll take a stab at it and probably spend too much time proofing this copy to make sure I don’t sound like a dork.
What do I do in my free time?
My “free time” is spent with my girlfriend, working on my 100 year old home, shooting slingshots, tinkering with motorcycles and trying not to injure myself in the process. Some of these interests/passions have sections of their own on this site. Others will be tucked away in a category or just not talked about online (sorry Audra).
Motorcycles
I purchased my first motorcycle at 20 having never sat on one before. I had never ridden, didn’t have a license and had no idea how to work on one, but I knew I was in love. My first bike was a 1976 BMW R75/6, I still have that bike today and try to keep it as ridable as possible with too many bikes in the stable.
Blog posts, DIY repairs, and galleries of other motorcycles that I’ve had in the past or still have today can found in the menu under 2 wheels or through this /tag/motorcycle
Big Boom Design Inc
In 2008 I started a web design company called Big Boom Design in Asheville, NC. It was a solo venture at first and I got started by building sites on Joomla and WordPress. Since 2008 the company has grown to support about 300+ companies around the US but mostly here in Western North Carolina.
When you work at or own a web design company it becomes very easy to “spin-up” projects from half baked ideas. Sometimes these projects start from a blog post, involvement with a client, a passion/hobby, or just a random idea that somehow seems like a good (or decent) idea to run with. The following are a few of the projects and comapnies that I’m involved with these days.
Oil Pan Repair
A single product business that I’ve been running for about a decade now. It’s a repair kit for a 7.3 Liter Ford Powerstroke that solves a rusty oil pan issue, that all Powerstrokes have for about a 10 year span. The kit/product prevents the truck or shop owner from having to remove the entire engine from the truck to do the repair. It’s an “oil pan condom” that has helped save over 1,000 of these trucks in the past 10-12 years.
https://oilpanrepair.com
*Coupon code “Iknowboomer” to get 15% off
Big Boom Moto
A Motorcycle business that I started in 2022 that provides rugged motorcycle accessories built for long distance adventure travel. The primary products are top opening, damn-near indestructible Panniers with a universal plate system for attaching to your bike. I also custom make sheepskin seat covers for various sizes and shapes of motorcycle seats.
The product line is growing steadily and I’m thrilled to have a business in the product design space after 17 years of working on Big Design and looking at too many screens during the day. I do the R&D, manufacturing, assembly, and shipping from my shop here at the house. At some point I might move certain aspects of this business to a more established location, but for the meantime it’s a passion project/company that is starting to gorwn into a really fun adventure of it’s own.
