For over 25 years I have opened the front door of ABC Bicycles and put everything I have into making this store something people could be proud to have in their community.  The culture of the company is to simply help when you can as much as you can.  This simple vision has guided us through the years and has enabled us to become a place where you matter.  

I am truly proud to own ABC Bicycles.  I am humbled by the team I work with and the support from this community I call home.  

My journey started when I was young. I remember riding a Huffy mountain bike in the late 80s with my two best friends in middle school. We would take them apart almost every week for no reason except just to figure out how things worked. We never had the right tools, so we would break stuff.... a lot. We found relief at the local Schwinn shop in our city. We were always buying shifter cables to replace the ones we cut too short or trying to replace the bolt that shot out into the depths of the cluttered garage. We would also just walk around the shop and stare at the bikes. Not just the good ones, all of them. Looking back, I was obsessed with bikes.

I got my first job as a mechanic when I was fifteen.  There was nothing more satisfying in life than to take a machine that was in horrible shape and give it back to the customer in perfect working order. The customers' reaction to the work I did was enough to give me the impression that I could do this forever. But I was still young. I didn't know what I was going to do on the weekend.

I came to Saint Petersburg, Florida from Bradford, Massachusetts (Go Red Sox!!) after high school graduation to attend Eckerd College. It looked cool from the post card they sent me, so I figured I would go there. I graduated in 1999 with a BA in Environmental Studies. I worked part time at Fast Track Bicycles and then at ABC Bicycles during my four years at Eckerd. I also raced road bikes all four years, traveling all across the state.

While at ABC Bicycles, I had the opportunity to take on more responsibilities and realized that while I really liked working with bicycles, I really loved working with the people who rode them.  I love helping people.  So when the owner was ready to sell, I knew this was my chance. You only get one shot at an opportunity of a lifetime. So, with everything I had I bought it and I have never looked back. This is what I was born to do, to work on bikes and make people happy. That is it. And it is what I will be doing forever.