I’ve been into bikes since grade school when I got my first BMX bike and it gave me the freedom to ride and explore all day until it got dark. The first time I got to ride my “real” mountain bike in the Black Hills I was hooked. I would work nights and weekends at the Triple H Truckstop in Murdo just to have money for gas and bike parts and to be able to go on a bunch of weekend camping trips in the summer.
I spent a lot of my adult life in Missoula MT. Most of my free time was spent…