I came to this forum the same way a lot of us did, I'm sure. Shopping for a used bike, I realized I wanted a vintage road bike. Almost every time I googled a bike I was interested in, I found info in the archives of C&V...I decided to join up, got addicted and here I am. I’ve lost a lot of interest in vintage components, but still love this place and have a couple C&V frames in service so I hang around. Just bought my first carbon frame this weekend *gasp*.

I've done some long organized rides but I've never raced, though I am a fan of pro cycling. I plan to start doing cross and triathlons (more for fun than anything else) when I'm done with school and my life settles down a bit. I just finished my undergrad this spring, majoring in finance and accounting. I'll graduate this August with a master's degree in accounting and am about to start taking my CPA exams. I will start full time with a big accounting firm in Boston in January where I've worked off and on (currently part time) for almost four years now. Very grateful for the opportunity to get real world experience and a full time job offer during my undergrad...anybody with kids about to go to college--I can't recommend Northeastern U. enough (for Business and engineering, not sure about the other stuff). The next 6 months will be crazy for me, but I hope to get some traveling and cycling time in between school, studying and work. Going to Alaska in September and potentially central Mexico in December if I can stop buying bikes and save enough… I live in Boston with my girlfriend of over five years, Katie, and our two cats, Dusty (like little Dusty Pedroia) and Tugga (Russell Crowe’s cartoon tugboat from South Park). Katie starts grad school this fall to become a critical care pediatric nurse practitioner. Plans to propose in the near future as well...

Oh yeah…if I had any free time, I would also be interested in: hiking, bicycle touring/camping, more traveling, woodworking/building a cabin in the woods, using my OA torch to join bicycle tubes instead of take up space in my parents’ garage, restoring my dad’s 63 Corvette (sitting untouched since 1978 when my oldest brother was born).