I've been fascinated with bikes since that first Schwinn. OK, it had a banana seat and a flag and was a girls bike, but I killed the ditchbanks with that thing, and with the next one too. My first real mountain bike was in 1984, and my friends and I commandered the Tucson mountains, and it just kept going from there. Touring around the world in a couple dozen countries - that's a blast, and throwing in a few fun jobs from designing space vehicles and toys to being a bike messenger (Bucky #149, and Seattle has more hills than you might think), bikes have always been my passion.

1993 brought me to Fruita Colo, and in 1995 we started creating the trails that would tranform Fruita into the riding center that it is today. Bikes and trails have been in my blood all along. That interest and my engineering background have taken me into the bike industry in many ways. Currently, I am the VP of Engineering for Eko Sport, Inc - including major brands of MRP and White Brothers Suspension, and serve as the president of COPMOBA, our local trails advocacy group. Rapid Creek Cycles is my way of sharing my enthusiasm for and belief in biking. I hope we see you in the shop, or on the trails or among the vineyards of Palisade.  --Scott