Mission Statement:

This is our entire mission statement in one simple graphic.

Contributors:

• 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.
  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
  I’ve been knocking emails back and forth with this cat for years. ‘Bout time I just let him write shit straight to the site. Why bring me into it? He’s got full security clearance.
  SLC, Utah, USA
• 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
• 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
• B. Sullivan
  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
• Flodizzle
  Website: 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
• Lovedawg
  Our requisite masters rider and six 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.
  Website: myspace.com/snakehawk.
  North Carolina, USA