Mission Statement:

This is our entire mission statement in one simple graphic.

 

Contributors:

40 Hands
“A fan of riding bikes with one gear, mainly because I am too stupid to figure out how gears work. I have thrown my hat into the whole racing scene with varying results. I also enjoy malt liquor, riding without knowing how many miles I’ve covered, and strip clubs that let you bring your own keg. I now call Fort Collins home, so I can get a masters degree, and maybe one day actually contribute to society. I typically have a stupid grin on my face, it is because deep down I know that no matter what, my mom thinks I’m cool.”
Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

 

Big Jonny
The man, the legend. The guy who started it all back in 2000 with a couple of pages worth of free server space on a porn site, a book called HTML for Dummies, a bad attitude and a Dell desktop running Win95 with 64 mgs of ram and a six gig hard drive. Now he’s in law school.
Websites: twitter.com/BigJonny.
Phoenix, Arizona, USA

 

Bike Punk
“Cuts, scrapes, bruises… all in a day’s riding. Then it’s off for some good german beer in a local biergarten.”
Website: rottenmac.com.
Munich, Germany

 

Brad Q.
“Bikes are cool, and I’ve been making a go at this ‘industry’ thing for a while now. You may remember me from some nine years at Dirt Rag Magazine. Or not. Now I do some writing, wrenching and photography to pay the bills. And run my half of a little magazine project called Urban Velo. We love riding in the city.”
Website: urbanvelo.org.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

 

Bush43
“Long time cyclist, skier and purveyor of all that is good in this life.”
SLC, Utah, USA

 

caveman
“Hi, I am Caveman. Bikes, people, IPA’s and cameras take up my time. Kids love me for the great words I teach them. Any place I go, I leave a mark.”
Website: bentography.com.

 

Chopper
“Poet, sage liar. Bike fag, BIKE Mag contributor and lacky who couldn’t handle the discipline required to be a real pro. Bald, slow and generally known to speak out of turn especially when under the influence. He’s got two beautiful daughters who make you question genetics and a wife who could school your ass on a bike any day of the week.”
Ketchum, Idaho, USA

 

D2
“I am that guy who has a butt-load of hobbies and manages to be mediocre to awful at all of them. Among those hobbies: bikes, guitars, baseball, hockey, writing (books, stories, articles, essays, other crap that no one wants to read), photography. At the moment, I’m a wrench (again), but until recently I was a teacher (maybe slightly better than mediocre). Bikes are cool, huevos rancheros are for breakfast, whiskey is for dinner.”
Website: waterloggedaugust.com.
Flagstaff, Arizona, USA

 

dirty biker
Fan of singletrack, singlespeeds, single malt, and single women.
Website: twitter.com/dirtybiker.
Tempe, Arizona, USA

 

Erik B.
“I am a lawyer who handles a lot of bicycle accidents, injuries, and assaults on bicyclists in the Tucson area. If you are a cyclist and have been injured, assaulted, or are in need of some assistance in handling a bike accident, feel free to call me. Consultations are always free.”
Website: tucsonbikelawyer.com.
Tucson, Arizona, USA

 

Flodizzle
Another cyclist toiling away in graduate school. Go figure.
Tucson, Arizona, USA

 

giantcu92
“I was born a poor sharecropper… No wait, that was someone else. Actually, I was born to a papermill worker and a shoe maker in the great State of Maine. My first run in with a bike was when my parents handed me down the one speed fixie orange bomber with solid rubber tires that all 3 of my sisters had used in their younger years (yeah, we had a big family, Catholic and all = 5 kids). That thing was pretty sweet. I wish that I still had it today. After that, it was a succession of BMX bikes, and I got the racing bug on the dirt track in my hometown. For awhile there, I left the bike alone, you know, finding out about girls, driver’s licenses, and ball sports in middle and high school, but once I got to college, I got back to the bike. Discovered mountain biking, and mountain bike racing, and then I evolved into a road racer after moving to North Carolina and falling into a group of friends who all worked for Cycles De Oro in Greensboro, NC, and who all happened to be roadies. Now, it’s a few years later, I’m a few years older, and have moved to Washington DC to work for the United States Army. I still ride the roads, although far less often than I’d like, and I’ve developed a bad habit of following politics, this beast only fed further by my move to DC. I still watch and comment on cycling, and next year (2010), I’m making the racing comeback. So when you see a sort of chubby kid line up at the local sufferfest, don’t underestimate him, it’s probably me.”
Washinton, DC, USA

 

Gnome
“I’m little. I ride.”
Website: onespeeder.com.
Flagstaff, Arizona, USA

 

Judi
“i used to shoot dope and ride bikes. now i just ride bikes.”
Website: milesandmadness.blogspot.com.
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

 

Legs
Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA

 

little jar
Washington, USA

 

Lovedawg
Our requisite masters rider and multiple time AZ state champ. Just so he can tell us we’re all fat and slow
Website: ridecleanteam.com.
Flagstaff, Arizona, USA

 

Marty
This guy wrote the book on fun. And then lit it on fire. Twice.
Website: ridecleanteam.com.
Phoenix, Arizona, USA

 

Patrick O’Grady
“Making stuff up for money since 1977. Making stuff up about cycling for money since 1989. See VeloNews and Bicycle Retailer & Industry News, found crumpled near the crapper in stylish homes and pro bike shops worldwide.”
Website: maddogmedia.com.
Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA

 

Pave Fiend
“After several years racing domestically, I finally decided to give it a go overseas. Two years in Belgium were enough to prove to me that I was more suited to other things. But I stayed behind wheels so to speak–this time as an Assistant Director Sportif for Mercury-Viatel. Now I’m back stateside, happily married and feeling nostalgic for Northern Europe and it’s cycling traditions.”
Website: pavepavepave.blogspot.com.
Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, USA

 

Pineapple
Bike mechanic, poet, sage, former collegiate hockey star. Ok, maybe not a star.
“i am full time bicycle mechanic, and all around nice guy. like to ride bikes, but not very far. like poetry, candle-light dinners, and short walks on the beach. i don’t like getting hassled, and i don’t like capitalization.”
Flagstaff, Arizona, USA

 

Schultzenheimer
“I missed the W bashing around here so much they made me a reporter. Just because W is gone doesn’t mean the NWO still doesn’t want to kick down your door and say you can’t do anything unless it’s approved by them.”
Website: t-n-t.us.
USA

 

Snake
Our requisite professional cyclist. Just so he can tell us we’re all fat and slow whenever he gets around to actually posting something.
Tucson, Arizona, USA

 

Snake Hawk
“Other than the fact that I am a complete trainwreck with homo-erotic dance floor tendencies, I’m pretty great. I’m an art maker, totally in love, and just recently re-established my relationship with bicycles. I happily ride my sub-50 pound cruiser to work up a gigantic hill. Skidding is my favorite trick. And big 180 bonelesses off of dumb shit.”
Websites: myspace.com/snakehawk; snakehawk.blogspot.com.
North Carolina, USA

 

the sullied cycologist
“measures, daily, just how quickly we are destroying our atmosphere. thinks riding bikes might just help this problem. tapes his middle finger to the handlebar (unsuccessfully represses rage). mountainbikes in lycra. Tomac did it. he does it. he’s not Tomac.”
Website: flagstaffist.org.
Flagstaff, Arizona, USA