One of my great loves is sharing my passion for bicycles and their many benefits with others. I love the visceral connection riding a bike gives me to my surroundings and the city I live. The smell of roasting coffee, the wind in my face, the sound of my tires rolling over cobbles, not to mention the many health benefits.  There truly is a spontaneity, joy and freedom unequal to any other way I have found of getting from hear to there.

I began working on bicycles in my father's small shop as a kid, in Southern Oregon, and got my first job at a larger bicycle shop when I was 15. Since then, I have lived and breathed bicycles, gaining thousands of hours of wrenching experience at bike shops in Eugene and Portland as well as guiding and designing bicycle vacations in many far off places.

I've worked on every kind of bike imaginable from old-school around-town clunkers, mountain bikes to high end carbon race machines. During 2012, I decided it was time to turn my dream of working for myself into a reality and started Left Coast Bicycles with the aim of being the most convenient, friendly service available in Portland. What an honor it is to live and work in this beautiful city living my dream and connecting with the wonderful community here.

Bikes have been a huge passion of mine ever since I was in high school in Corvallis Oregon. It started when I used the savings from my first job to buy a mountain bike - that purchase changed my life forever. Pretty soon all my friends had mountain bikes and we were riding every chance we got. It wasn't long before my bike started needing repairs, so my dad taught me some of what he knew from being a bike mechanic back in the 70's.

I got my first job as a bike mechanic when I went off to college in Eugene, OR where I met Aaron Michelson who later went on to start Left Coast Bicycles. Being surrounded by other bike nerds like myself, my passion for bikes grew from seeing them as recreational toys to understanding their utility as transportation and tools for positive change.

I've been working as a bike mechanic off and on for the last 15 years at shops throughout Washington and Oregon. I've worked on everything from rusty commuter bikes to $20,000 race bikes at local custom frame builders. In addition to working in bike shops, I went to school for industrial design at Western Washington University.

One of the best parts about being a mechanic is getting the opportunity to share my passion for bikes with others so they can experience the joy that bikes have given me.