About Me

I’ve been mountain biking since 1987 and I’ll be doing it as long as I physically can. I really got the mountain biking bug when I lived in Vancouver, Canada. I moved to California and the great weather allowed me to ride all the time. I used to be an avid racer and have competed in cross country, downhill, single speed and 24 hour races. I met my wife through biking and we settled in Santa Cruz to raise a family. Santa Cruz has some of the best trails in Northern California and I’m currently advocating opening more trails to mountain biking.

Member Since

Jun 28, 2006

Sites

• MBOSC

What is the next…

Purchase you’ll make?

Santa Cruz Chameleon hardtail frame. I want a hard tail urban, dirt jumper.

Trend in design?

29-inch single speeds

Car you’d like to own?

BMW 330 with the performance package. I live in Santa Cruz and work in Silicon Valley. Between work and home is the curvy mountain highway 17.

Big step you’d like to make?

Quit my tech job and work as a mountain bike advocate full time.

Fad that will fade?

SUVs

Vacation you’ll take?

Northern California mountain biking and camping trip

Thing you’re going to fight for?

More legal access to public lands for mountain bikes in the Santa Cruz area

Secret that’s going to leak?

Santa Cruz is a mountain bike mecca

Life you’ll lead?

Working in Santa Cruz and commuting by bike.

Fountain of youth?

Ride three days a week. Play with your children.

Thing that will change the world?

Cheap hydrogen power for the masses. If this technology comes to fruition then it will change the current geo-political and economic structures.

Person to whom you’ll say, “I love you”?

My wife and daughter