Guide Biographies
| Name: |
John Chinkes |
| How long riding: |
29 years
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| First bike: |
Huffy BMX, I think, we painted it black and did not replace the stickers
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| Favorite Ride: |
From my house up Coal Creek Canyon, then back to Boulder and home
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| Favorite Racer: |
Jens Voigt
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| Comments: |
I have been riding since I was six, I learned at a friends house. He lived at the bottom of two hills and you could coast down one and most of the way up the other. So I started learning how to pedal up to the top of the other hill so I could keep riding. Since then I have been racing all over the US and even a little in Europe. Mostly not winning but a few times, ah, it is nice to be first. Knowing the effort it takes to win at my level I love watching the professionals dueling it out!
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| Name: |
John Twa |
| How long riding: |
30 years
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| First bike: |
An orange Schwinn... not a very memorable bike.
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| Favorite Ride: |
2006 mountain bike tour through the Indian Himalaya
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| Favorite Racer: |
Geoff Kabush
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| Comments: |
The only reason I ride my bike is so that I can eat Pop-Tarts, drink Belgian beer, and still fit into my britches. Oh, and I like shaving my legs too.
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| Name: |
Lynnda Chinkes |
| How long riding: |
25 years
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| First bike: |
I bought a ten speed, powder-puff blue Huffy with my babysitting money when I was a teenager. It was fun test riding it in the parking lot at the bike shop, and after I got it home I insisted that I keep it inside.
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| Favorite Ride: |
Riding a century with friends up to our cabin on the lake, and after arriving carbo-loading on pasta.
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| Comments: |
The freedom of riding a bike was fascinating to me as a kid. Getting my first bike under the Christmas tree and riding it around the basement during the cold winters sure was exciting. My enthusiasm has carried over to adulthood so I continue riding my road and mountain bikes.
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