Rider Bios

Jon Latimer:

Andrew Sloan: My grandpa taught me how to ride a bike and I've never stopped since. I'm happy to live in Oakland now where biking is so accessible and I can rack up parking tickets because I forget to move my car. I love beer, and the Bay Area is like a giant vat. I ride a Cannondale touring bike and prefer the sweet nut-brown ales and porters. "Candy Andy" is what they call me.

Lauren Powell:
Don't mess or I'll paint your face with my tred! I ride a neon lightning bolt Trek and prefer the dark beers even though I'm trying to be gluten-free... a lost cause in the Bay Area. Suck it! I home brew and ferment, and know a good beer when I taste one.

Tyler Tebrich:
I turned my backyard into a farm and made this bike trailer to haul my produce to sell at Cotati's farmer's market. Someday my covered wagon will hold people, and you can call me for a ride home from the Cotati Crawl on a drunken night. I enjoy brews of the entire social spectrum - watching a b-ball game with a PBR, or sippin' a quality micro.

Ben Otis Lerer:
As a lifetime rider, bicycles are where I found my first passion. As for the second, well... there are no hierarchies in passion, only complimentary differences. And brewing and partaking in fine beers is my other passion (a hopped up rye ale in the tank as I write... oh, so excited!), along with living in ways that build relationships to change our society towards the more desirable. What do these passions have in common you might wonder? To many it may be obvious, the complete and full enjoyment of the complicated struggle to live a free and fulfilling life.

Matt Smith:
I am an embodiment of seminal inertia, a force of social retribution, and an organic farmer. Want a free consultation? I believe that biking is the smartest thing. And beer is a miracle. The only style that I don’t cyclically venerate is the American pilsner, but after cycling viciously northward it may enter my wheel of reverence. I pray my rims will not tire.

Veganism!