Rider Rants

Name Joseph Mullan

Nickname Joey

Age 21

Current Town Bellingham, Wa.

Home Town Tacoma, Wa.

Favorite Trail? Devil’s Gulch. Wenatchee, Wa.

Sponsors/Supporters? Traitor Cycles, Powercordz.

Favorite place to ride? Lake Padden, Bellingham, Wa.

Favorite place to compete? South SeaTac, Wa. Exit 151 off I-5.

Name: Rebecca Rusch

Nickname: Reba or The Queen of Pain

Age: Do you really HAVE to put this?  If so, 42!  DAMN!

Current Town: Ketchum Idaho

Home Town: Originally Chicago, IL, but that was a LONG, LONG time ago

Favorite Trail? Anything that I can access straight from my house.  There are miles and miles of single track right out the door and that’s why I live here.

Nickname: Lornny

Age: 20

Current Town: >  North Vancouver, British Columbia

Home Town: >  North Vancouver, British Columbia

Favorite Trail? >  Cabin Trail

Sponsors/Supporters? >  Cove Bikes, Sombrio, Smith Optics, Five Ten, Geax Tires

Favorite place to ride? >  B.C.

Favorite place to compete? >  Jordie Lunns Comps

Age: 32

Current Town:
Corte Madera, CA

Home Town:
Ashland, OR

Favorite Trail?
The Rabbit Hole, it’s just a short trail…maybe 1/4 mile, but you come into it so fast off Roller Coaster ridge, airborne, and then it is just a fun Mach 10 ride.

Name:
Daniel Franks

Nickname:
D Franks

Age:
16 (DOB: October 2, 1993)

Current Town:
Christchurch, New Zealand (in the South Island)

Home Town:
Christchurch, New Zealand

Favorite Trail? > I love any place I can ride my bike. I couldn’t single out one trail, but we have many great tracks in the Port Hills above Christchurch – they’re rocky, steep, really challenging and lots of fun.

Nickname: D-Sapp

Age: 23

Current Town: Boone, NC

Home Town: Kernersville, NC

Favorite Trail?
Canyons, besides that, anywhere I’m riding with good buddies.

Sponsors/Supporters?
Transition Bikes, Cycletherapy, Boone Bike

Nickname: McDreamy

Hometown: Brighton, MI

Age: A young 25

Birthplace: Ann Arbor, MI

Favorite Trail: Pisgah, NC…all of it! But if I had to pick only one, Black Mountain for sure.

Sponsors?
Bell’s Brewery, Quirring Cylcles, Louis Garneau, SRAM, Stan’s No Tubes, my ever-loving parents.

Favorite place to ride?
In a Land Before Time

Favorite place to race?
West Virginia holds a special place in my heart.

Nicknames:

>Nick: Nickel
>Ryan: Meyers? I don’t really have one…

Birthplace:

Vancouver, BC

Hometown:

Tsawwassen, BC

Ages:

>Nick: 22
>Ryan: 21

Sponsors?

Age: 32

Hometown: Sparks, Nevada

Birthplace: Truckee, California

Favorite Trail: Whichever one I am riding today

Sponsors? Transition Bikes, Fox Racing Shox, Dakine, Crankbrothers, KORE, Maxxis, Jagwire

Favorite place to ride?
I don’t have a favorite right now. I am having so much fun riding new places and trails lately there’s no way I could pick just one. I ride a bit of everything. I guess anywhere in the mountains is acceptable.