Jack VanDyke has been riding bicycles most of his life, for exercise while growing up and for daily transportation as an adult. Jack has a degree in City Planning from the University of Michigan and has worked for a couple of Ann Arbor bicycle retailers. He started volunteering with Back Alley Bikes in 2005 and moved to Detroit later that year. His interests include singing, looking at maps, and deconstructing automotive hegemony.

Jack can generally be found volunteering to coordinate volunteers, instructiontating youths-earning-bikes, edutraining mechanics-in-training, wrangletating unbroken bikes at bike rodeos, and showing others how to repair their flatulent tubes.

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JDR Tanner is one of the more versatile strains of homo sapiens sapiens. He has the mental agility of over-tested lab rats, the brute strength of a shrewdness of silverbacks arranging themselves in a manner that resembles Voltron, and the problem-solving capabilities of a task force subcommittee of the cutest, furriest, mammals that have ever had their brains cored with electrodes and buzzed their way through mazes and puzzles. Sometimes he plays the violin. And he loves yelling.

Likes include, but are not limited: literacy, wordplay, s-wordplay, wreckage, construction, food, and the American South.

Dislikes include, but are limited: The FDA, christopher columbus, orientalism, industrial media, the FDA, and westerns.

JDR Tanner can generally be found; however, he can also specifically lose his place, over and over.

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Jordan Bentley once installed a Go-Ped motor on the back of a Schwinn city bike. When asked “Ooh, that’s a Schwinn?” he often responds “Usedta.” Jordan enjoys a goofy time warp that includes all your old 1980’s bike jersey’s you thought you lost.

Miss ‘em? Take it up with him. He’s really tough to miss.

Jordan can be found preserving relics of old mountain biking that many folks think should have been put out to pasture long ago.

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Angie Karr started working with us in January courtesy of the University of Michigan’s Semester-in-Detroit program, and we couldn’t have been more thrilled. Angie, however, probably could have been.

Her first day on campus here involved hauling the bike trailer over to the Capuchin Soup Kitchen in a -19 degree blizzard. Not only did she stomp through that, but she also reached the summit of many heretofore-unconquered mountains of paper and bike frame, including Mt. Huffy, and Bikes Peak.

You can find Angie moving big things, shaking them up, then moving them around again. Like some sort of hybrid of shaking and moving, A “Shamoveker” even.

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Stephen Lambert Lambers III is the One of the Best Paddlers under the age of 23 in the US of A.  He has a love for Toby Keith’s Ford Truck, and Your Bicycle’s Campagnolo dropouts. Here are a few facts about him from his recent feature bio in “YP – THE Magazine for Young Paddlers”

• Favorite Band: Ween, John Mayer, Jonas Brothers, Early Enrique Iglesias
• Favorite Food: Double baco-cheeseburger. It’s for a cop.
• Favorite Drink: Beast of the East, or the Best of the Midwest.
• Fastest 2K Paddle: 6:13 (ed. note, holy crap, that’s fast.)

You can find Steve doing his best Jens Voigt impression anytime he’s on the bike.

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Jason Fiedler has never done drugs, doesn’t dance and began riding bikes year round as a major form of transportation about 4 years ago.  About 3 years ago Jason became a vegan.  With all that said, Jason has eliminated any opportunities to socialize with human beings, so when he returned to Detroit from Lansing in 2007 he needed somewhere to be besides home. Since 2008 Jason has been at the HUB pretty much weekly.  In 2009 he joined the collective and is now busy killing everyone’s fun.  You can usually find him upstairs hopelessly staring at the wall of extra parts wondering if they will ever be organized. Jason enjoyes lugged steel Raleighs, tattoos, farts, punk rock, trans liberation, sliding scales, photography and bikes.

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Amets likes practical functional bikes from the trash heap, scrappy-looking animals, good buddies, breaking chains, red curry, & sharing.  if you see them around town, feel free to offer them a cup of coffee & some vegan cake.