I spent 15 years designing and implementing computer systems, networks, and software applications after stints in accounting, purchasing, production planning, and logistics. I graduated in 1988 from the University of Maryland with a degree in Business Administration and Management.

Now I manage our bike shop.

I needed to immerse myself in stuff I am passionate about.

I fell in love with cycling as a child. I spent nearly every carefree day of youth on my bike. It was an uncontrollable urge from the start. Maybe it was the day the pedals on my Schwinn pixie got away from me on a long paved downhill that resulted in a whole lot of road rash. Next thing you know, I’m jumping dirt on Schwinn Stingrays around the Skokie Lagoons, then moving on to BMX, then buying my first rigid mountain bike in 1984. It was an obvious and exciting next step.

After 15 years on the mountain bike, I got my first real road bike in 1999 (my old Schwinn Varsity 10 speed didn’t count, right?) - a custom hand fillet brazed steel Nobillette. It changed my life. It rekindled the joy of cycling in me. That rejuvenating spirit of adventure that comes from traveling distance under your own power - spending entire days on your bike like when you were a kid.

The addiction grew stronger. I had Mark build me another Nobilette, this one a TIG welded steel cross/touring bike in duct tape grey. I started doing self-supported bike tours: Amsterdam to Prague, Barcelona-Tarragona-Saragosa-Camino de Santiago-Rias Bajas, Granby-Riverside-Baggs-Craig-Steamboat Springs-Yampa-Granby, and others.

My wife and I honeymooned for six weeks on our touring bikes. We wandered about The Netherlands and Belgium before pointing it up the Rhine across Europe to Dusseldorf, Köln, Strasbourg, to Basel Switzerland adding a train leg to Konstanz and a train back to Amsterdam.

I’m a dedicated bike commuter, too. Although, my current commute doesn’t involve the old 2.75 hours, 22 miles, 5100 feet of climbing, 4.5 miles of 13 percent avg. grade, 2 miles of 17 percent grade that my ride home from Boulder to Gilpin County did. But, riding in the Upper Arkansas River Valley looking at the Sawatch Mountain Range rising 7000 vertical feet above the valley floor does have it’s appeal.

I love to help people turn their bikes into machines of utility. There’s not much stuff cooler than lighting, fenders, internally geared hubs, dynamos, racks, panniers and other things that make bikes work harder.