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Carson grew up in beautiful northern California, with Mt. Shasta and Lassenpainting the backdrop to his burgeoning life as a photographer. He developed akeen sense for photography at a young age while exploring the wonders in hisown backyard. Participating in cycling, running, and numerous other outdooradventures gives Carson the advantage of capturing these sports in a trulydistinct and defining manner. He not only captures the image, but the raw ex-citement and thrill that comes from participation.Along with his sports and travel photography, he owns and runs Digital CaptureSystems, a digital consulting company for professional photographers and hehas also recently been added to the instructor staff at the Malibu Institute ofMedia Arts. If that is not enough, he also has an entire product line for profes-sional photographers coming out soon!

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Marian has worked at several bike shops and in the bicycle industry for nearly10 years. For several years Marian was a part owner of a collectively ownedbicycle shop, the “Missing Link”. While at the Missing Link, Marian taught bi-cycle repair classes and worked as the Outreach Coordinator. Currently, Mar-ian works as a Bicycle Industry Analyst for Bike-Alog.

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Echo, also known as Michael Roberson, is an avid thrill seeker and tree huggingpeaceful kind of guy. By trade, Echo is a graphic and web designer; you mayhave noticed him at your local Starbucks in the corner trying way too hard tolook cool with his laptop and Iced Soy Cinnamon Dolce Latte! Things Echo enjoys meaningful conversations, spirituality, travel, social activ-ism, and people watching. Echo is also owner of Casualty of Design a full ser-vice graphic and web design company.

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Mary

Craighead

is currently a 7th grade lan-guage arts teacher as wellas the retail manager of theMountain Bike Depot & ‘CrossSupply in Louisville, KY. Maryand the staff at the Mountain BikeDepot are very passionate about cyclingas a lifestyle, and focuses on customer ser- vice and community driven events, like a CXWorlds party, the women’s classes, and a newshort track series. Mary is a Cat 1 mountainbiker and a Cat 3 ‘cross racer. Mary raced forthe Sorella Cycling Program out of Atlanta, GA while she was attending Emory University. Shecurrently rides and races for Chrysalis Ven-tures Racing in Louisville.

Dotsie

Bausch

is a professional racer who has ridden for T- Mobile, Colavita SutterHome, and the United States National Team.She now acts as race captain and mentor to theNew Zealand based Jazz Apple cycling teamalongside Susy Pryde! Dotsie is a familiarname in the professional women’s peloton asshe has had a wildly successful career, includ-ing 3X as National Champ and a Pan Am goldmedal. In 2002, Dotsie launched a personalcoaching business and focused soley on new women racers. Through word of mouth, she hasbeen successfully increasing her client baseeach year, and recently launched EmpowerCoaching Systems with business partner AndySparks, the 2008 U.S. Olympic Track cyclingcoach. Check out Empower at: www.empower-coachingsystems.com. They focus on road andtrack cycling for men and women of all ages.Dotsie is very candid about sharing her storiesabout her struggles with drugs and eating dis-orders with the public and has used her statusas a professional athlete to increase the pub-lic’s awareness of eating disorders.

Kathie

Reid

has vivid memories of herfirst ride on a bike without training wheels atthe tender age of 5 years, but didn’t take upcycling in spandex until 9 years ago. Within just a few years, she had done multiple centu-ries, completed the infamous (at least in Cen-tral California) 153-mile Climb to Kaiser twice,and began racing. A “career-cat 4” Velo Bella,she simply races for the challenge and the joyof riding and training with strong women. Per-haps because she grew up in the tiny EasternSierra town of Bridgeport, California, at 6500feet, her favorite type of riding includes chal-lenging climbs. She has ridden some of thelegendary climbs of the Tour de France and theGiro di Italia, such as Col du Tourmalet, Alped’Huez, and the Passo Stelvio. To pay for herbikes and bike trips, she is an associate pro-fessor of child development at California StateUniversity, Fresno. One of the perks is sum-mers off, and in 2006, she did an internship at VeloNews in Boulder, Colorado, an experiencethat launched her second career – freelance writing. She writes features for VeloNews, cov-ers NRC races such as the Cascade CyclingClassic for velonews.com, does contract workfor USA Cycling’s website, and has publishedon cyclingnews.com. .

Veronika

Lenzi

is a Petaluma photog-rapher who fell in love with cycling after see-ing the tail end of the 2001 Tour de France. In2006, she was contracted to photograph TheToyota-United Professional Cycling Team, withone of her pictures published in VeloNewsand two others published in Bicycling Maga-zine. You can also see her photos in our veryown local Bike Monkey magazine and hang-ing in the Wine Emporium in Sebastopol. Shehas opened her house to many young cyclists(and non cyclists), and hopes that she and herhusband can make a difference in the life of a cyclist, young or old. She is currently one of the managers of the Santa Rosa based TeamNorCal Bike Sport and will be following eachstage of this years Tour of California.

Ken

Conley

(kwc) is a Northern Cali-fornia cycling photographer that can usuallybe found behind a lens, handlebars, or a key-board. While mainly focused on California roadcycling events like the Tour of California, hehas traveled across the US to shoot events likethe Tour de Georgia and the Tour of Missouri.Occasionally you’ll find him drinking beer ata track, mountain bike or cyclocross event. Inhis spare free time he also maintains a cycling-focused blog at http://kwc.org/cycling/.

Brian

Hodes

of Southern California hasbeen shooting for over 30 years. An avid cy-clist, he has recently combined his passionfor cycling and his artistic photographic eye.There is an advantage to being both a cyclistand a photographer- being able to see theshot before it’s even there. Whether it’s a crit,road race, time trial or a multi-day stage race,you’ll find Brian, knee-pads and all on the cir-cuit. Brian Resides in Southern California andis a Father of two- Sophia and Aidan. He is ac-tively involved in charity, and is an activist toraise awareness and an end to the HIV/AIDSpandemic. His images can be found at www. veloimages.com.

Barbara

Howe

An accomplished pave-ment and dirt cyclist Barbara Howe alsoenjoys eating and cooking. She believesthat you should enjoy what you eat and hercycling experiences are often shaped by thefood around them. From camping in the moun-tains and cooking on a portable stove, to thefrites stands at Belgian cyclocross races andbreakfast before her commute Barb alwaysmakes sure she’s well fueled before she getson her bike.

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