0. How long have you been riding?
10 years on and off

1. What bike do you mainly ride?
my road bike

2. What bikes do you have and how do you choose which one to ride?
Scattante 650, old mongoose beater singlspeed, kona hardtail

3. What is your "dream" bike? (It has to be buildable, today)
BMW 75/5 cafe racer

4. How many miles per week to you ride?
150-200

5. Why do you ride?
It's fun

6. Do you race?
Haven't yet, but it sounds fun

7. How good a rider are you? We're interested in your own take of your abilities, although objective data is ok as well.
Ha, not very. I'm an athlete so I'm hoping I can pick up the racing pretty fast.

8. Do you mountain-bike? Bike-commute?
Yes/Yes

9. Do you or have you done any other sports except cycling?
Ski raced for 10+ years- coached after that, snowboard, soccer, surfing, lots of backpacking, sea kayak, raced autocross for awhile wouldn't mind racing motorcycles after i make some money.


10. How much time per week do you spend on cycling now, and how much time do you realistically think you SHOULD be spending?

I don't count with all the commuting...umm 10 hours maybe? don't know

11. If you didn't road bike, you'd be ____________
Skiing, surfing or drinking coffee

12. If you couldn't road bike for some reasons, you'd __________
have lots of sex

13. Biggest road bike pet peeve?
all the guys that have nice bikes that can't ride, but thats okay cause i'll buy there bikes for cheap on craigslist

14. Train solo or with groups? What groups do you ride with? What do you do when you get dropped?
both, just started training and thinking about joining paa

15. Do you prefer hills, or flats for races?
haven't raced

16. Rate your bike mechanic skills.
6/10

17. Rate your bike handling skills.
6/10

18. How do your friends/colleagues view your cycling?
they think i'm crazy...but it's nothing new

19. What online forums do you spend most time on? Do your forum hours exceed your cycling hours?
this, rs25.com, no i don't have too much free time

20. If you had $1000 to spend, right now, and had to buy a cycling related purchase, you would get ____________. How bout for $2000, or $5000, or unlimited funds?
new wheels. Any more money I'd spend on my student loans

21. Anything else you'd like to tell us
I love the BF e-thugs i see on threads now and then.... remember we wear spandex which atomaticly disqualifes you from e-thugging