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Transplanted from the Midwest in 2009, Joergen took to the cycling scene in Salt Lake right out of the gate. After being brought into the fray during the craziness that was Don Giovanni, Joergen started throwing alleycats and helping the community along in any way he could. Also passionate about natural foods and local food movements he spends his spare time, playing with soil, compost, and dreaming up different grey water collection systems. Joergen rides a black cyclocross frame gone single-speed.
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Tom has been a contributor and member of SaltCycle since 2007. Drawn into the cycling community by this very same blog, he was able to make friends at events by recognition of their authorship of posts and likewise. After a brief non-cycling hiatus as an LDS missionary, Tom returned in 2010 and began to be involved again in Salt Lake's cycling scene. The torch was passed to Tom from Davey Davis, former Salt Laker and SaltCycle main man. Tom is 23 years old, attends the University of Utah, and works for Salt Lake City's Transportation Division. He rides a silver Univega touring bike, a Scott carbon road bike, and a black and yellow Centurion fixed gear. Tom is also a founding member of the Saltcycle Intellitechs racing team.
Christy "Punkin Pants" Jens - Editor
Christy Punkin Pants Jens has been riding her bike since her childhood in Japan. After being transplanted in Utah to study journalism at Utah State University, she found that paying people to fix her bike wasn't as fulfilling as fixing it herself. She learned how to wrench while working at Aggie Blue Bikes, where she taught community bike classes and educated students and faculty at USU about the importance of bikes. By day she is a copywriter and on the weekends she puts her UBI Master Mechanic certification to good use at Saturday Cycles. When she isn't busy talking, fixing, or writing about bicycles, she can be found riding her Salsa La Raza or Casseroll around the greater Salt Lake area. She is also an avid vegetarian cook and "Empress of Effervescence" at her company, Mamachari Kombucha.
Contributors
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Jessica Judy Gilmore
In June of 2008 Jessica's life changed for good when she bought (paying too much) her first bicycle as an adult, an old Sears Roebuck Freesprit that weighed at least 600 lbs ("I swear!"). She has come a long way since then and became an active member of the SLC bike community. Jessica loves riding in alleycats, sprints, and even the crazy winter rides or hill climb challenges our city can't seem to get enough of. At the root of it all she simply loves riding bikes. For two summers she worked as a Jason's Deli bike messenger and while finishing up her last semester of Architecture school she volunteered at the (U of U) SLC Bicycle Collective. |
Davey Davis
A journalist, creature of words, and a filmmaker and most recently the new SLC Bike Collective Executive Director, Davey wanders around trying to make himself useful, usually by bike. This includes delivering sandwiches to hungry lawyers in the noontime traffic of SLC or, currently, using his bike to chart the compact, confusing, and contested physical landscape of Palestine and Israel. Davey captained the revitalization of Saltcycle after its quiet year as a forum in 2009 and threw as many alleycats, gatherings, and film screenings as his heart desired. He rides a pristine pink Schwinn Super Sport, a fixed gear made by his buddy Lindsey, and any 80's mountain bike he can get his hands on.
A journalist, creature of words, and a filmmaker and most recently the new SLC Bike Collective Executive Director, Davey wanders around trying to make himself useful, usually by bike. This includes delivering sandwiches to hungry lawyers in the noontime traffic of SLC or, currently, using his bike to chart the compact, confusing, and contested physical landscape of Palestine and Israel. Davey captained the revitalization of Saltcycle after its quiet year as a forum in 2009 and threw as many alleycats, gatherings, and film screenings as his heart desired. He rides a pristine pink Schwinn Super Sport, a fixed gear made by his buddy Lindsey, and any 80's mountain bike he can get his hands on.
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Gary Hurst
Critics everywhere agree, "Gary's the nicest mother*%&#$@ that will embarrass you on a steel bicycle while making it look easy." He'll also fix your bike for you after the race and sing about the whole experience in a way that makes you glad to be in the same state (of existence) as him. You can currently find him winning hearts and hill climbs near your local punk house.
