Home
Rider Profiles...
Page 1
Page < 1- 2- 3 >  
_____________________________________________________________________________
 Date: November 2001
 Name: Dorothy T. Goulart
 City/State: Randolph, Massachusetts
# Years Riding: This will be my first year. I tried it once last season.
 Equipment: Vertex snobike
Favorite Riding Area: Don’t know yet
Comments:
 ____________________________________________________________________________
 Date: November 2001
 Name: William (Bill) R. Coan
City/State: Phoenix, Arizona
# Years Riding: 0
Equipment: 1970 Martl skibob (never has been used)
Favorite Riding Area: Flagstaff, AZ  (not in a ski area)
Comments: Will use it with sled-dogs!
 _____________________________________________________________________________
Date: November 2001
 Name: Rod Ratzlaff
 City/State: Lake George, Colorado
 # Years Riding: Since the 2000 - 2001 season
 Equipment: Brenter C-4
Comments: I have the privilege of being member #1. I tried it once and fell in love. It’s the most fun you can have on snow. I look forward to spending the rest of my winters gliding down mountains on one of these things! Think snow...
 _____________________________________________________________________________
Date: November 2001
 Name: Joey Bonang
 City/State: Warwick, Rhode Island
 # Years Riding: 3
 Equipment: 3 Brenter bikes  (2-96 / 1-99)
Favorite Riding Area: Loon Mt, NH
Comments: I enjoy bringing ski-bikes to new ski resorts. Cathy and I have introduced ski-bikes to 5 new areas that didn’t allow ski-bikes.
Profile: 50 years young, master plumber with bad knees and ankles, love bikes on and off the snow (mostly on), I am very passionate about this sport!, I want to teach, ride new places and meet all of you!
 _____________________________________________________________________________
Date: November 2001
 Name: Cathy Bonang
 City/State: Warwick, Rhode Island
 # Years Riding: 3
Equipment: Brenter 96 (Pink)
Favorite Riding Area: Cranmore, Loon
Comments: Started riding with Joey, just so he wouldn’t be the only one out there, I truly didn’t think I would stick with it. Now I love it! I was much more timid on skis - I actually have no fear on the bike. I’ve definitely challenged myself (I’m only 5ft and weigh less than 100#. I’m the voice when we travel to new resorts that don’t allow us - so far my charms have worked.
Date: November 2001
 Name: Ian Watson
 City/State: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
 # Years Riding: 23
 Equipment: 2-different machines, both custom skibikes
Favorite Riding Area: Lake Louise, where else!!
Comments: Claim to fame, won the 1991 North American Skibike Championships at L. Louise Alberta... got a trophy to prove it.
_____________________________________________________________________________
 Date: December 2001
 Name: Jeffrey Cain
City/State: Denver, Colorado
 # Years Riding: 2
 Equipment: K-2
 Favorite Riding Area: Loveland, CO  
 Comments:
_____________________________________________________________________________
 Date: December 2001
 Name: Dominick Garzaniti
City/State: Colorado Springs, Colorado
 # Years Riding: This will be my first season
Equipment: Still evaluating
Favorite Riding Area: Will be trying Copper Mountain in January
Comments: Looking forward to it.
 _____________________________________________________________________________
Date: December 2001
 Name: Lars Englund
City/State: SWEDEN  bollnas
# Years Riding: 4
Equipment: Manufacturer and owner of the trademark “funcross”
 Favorite Riding Area:  
 Comments: Nice job with the ASA.
 _____________________________________________________________________________
Date: December 2001
 Name: Ron Mickelberry
City/State: Bothell, Washington
# Years Riding: 32
Equipment: Hari, Fritzmeyer, Brenter
Favorite Riding Area: Mount Baker
 Comments: Born to ride! Just give me some trees and deep snow and I am a happy man. I have 8 skibobs.
_____________________________________________________________________________
Date: December 2001
 Name: Fred Petersen
City/State: Phoenix, Arizona
# Years Riding:15
 Equipment: Brenter
 Favorite Riding Area: Lake Louise
Comments: E-Mail: snobikefred@gmail.com  Thank you Rod very much for putting together a great Ski-Bike website.
 __________________________________________________________
* These "Rider Profiles"consist of information submitted by members of the original American Ski-Bike Association (ASA) founded in 2001. The current ASA web-address is: http://www.americanskibike.org
   If you desire to make contact with any of the following riders, send your request to SkiBike World and I will endeavor to pass it on to the appropriate party, assuming current contact info exists.  

Date: November 2001

Name: Craig Carroll

City/State: Colorado Springs, Colorado

# Years Riding: Since 2002

Equipment: Brenter

Favorite Riding Area: Copper Mtn, CO

Comments:  Cool site Rod, good job. I’ll e-mail the link to friends.

_____________________________________________________________________________

Date: November 2001

Name: Randy Johnson

City/State:Colorado Springs, Colorado

# Years Riding: 1

Equipment: Brenter Comodore

Favorite Riding Area: Copper Mtn, CO

Comments:

_____________________________________________________________________________

Date: January 02

Name: James Lemus

City/State: Carmel, California

# Years Riding:New

Equipment: None

Favorite Riding Area: Tahoe

Comments:

_____________________________________________________________________________

Date: January 02

Name: Dave “Gonzo” Gonzalez

City/State: Los Angeles, California

# Years Riding: 1

Equipment: Homemade

Favorite Riding Area: Golf course at night

Comments: I built a strange bike out of a pair of racing skis and a rowing machine. I was still recovering from ACL surgery and couldn’t snowboard. I was busted by a cop in a park at night. He thought it was so cool he let me do one more run so he could watch. I’m going to buy a real machine. Looking for others in L.A. Area.

_____________________________________________________________________________

Date: January 02

Name: Pete Kester

City/State: Springfield, Virginia

# Years Riding: Since 2001

Equipment: Brenter SkiBob (Comodore), Wooster Skibob

Favorite Riding Area: Locally so far, Wisp Mountain in

western Maryland

Comments: This is my kind of skiing!

_____________________________________________________________________________

Date: January 02

Name: Brooke Scathard

City/State: Charlotte, Vermont

# Years Riding: 4

Equipment: Brenter 1960‘s-70’s

Favorite Riding Area: Jay Peak, VT

Comments: In Vermont there’s nothing better than a ski bike ride in fresh powder!

_____________________________________________________________________________

Date: January 02

Name: Brant Hatton

City/State: Huntington Beach, California

# Years Riding: 3

Equipment: K2 1.0, Brenter, Vertex  

Favorite Riding Area: Big Bear Mtn.

Comments: This is one of the sickest extreme sports I have ever done and I have experienced alot of them. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns. Thanks..

_____________________________________________________________________________

Date: January 02

Name: Rick Tracy

City/State: Groveland, MA

# Years Riding: One season back in the 70‘s

Equipment: Looking

Favorite Riding Area: Bradford Ski Area if they allow skibikes

Comments: Off and on since the 70‘s I have been trying to find a skibob to buy but very few people in the stores know what they are. Besides, there seems to be few hills that allow them in MA. The allowance of snowboards at many hills will help the skibobs in the near future.

_____________________________________________________________________________

Date: January 02

Name: Michael David Coulson

City/State: Alpine, UT

# Years Riding: 5

Equipment: Porsche 212, Brenter Comodore, Shush-Ski-Bob,

SnoBobs, SnowBug, SnowHawk, many antique ski-bobs,

carving sledges and snow toys.

Favorite Riding Area: Park City, Brighton, Mountain Dell,

Alpine Hill, Tibble Fork.

Comments: I collect and ride many kinds of ski-bobs. I am an industrial designer and inventor and love patent searching, prototypes, advertising and memorabilia for any and all gravity snow machines. I would love to communicate with anyone on the history and future design aspects of skibikes or any gravity snow device.

_____________________________________________________________________________

Date: January 02

Name: Jeff Crocker

City/State: Kalispell, MT

# Years Riding: 2

Equipment: Vertex

Favorite Riding Area: Blacktail

 

Comments: I am 52 years old and have skied for 42 years. I raced in high school, taught skiing in college and for 7 years after. Two years ago I had to either quit skiing or find an alternative due to deteriorating knee injury problems. Surfing the net, I came across a site on “skibobs” and found the answer to my future “ski-life”. Skibiking has allowed me to continue in skiing in spite of my physical limitations! I feel like a kid! I can’t wait to skibike every weekend! I’ve really got the bug! I can’t get enough of this sport. I’ve rediscovered the thrill of “powder skiing”. I really wasn’t that great in powder. But now, I can keep up with the best of them. Skibikes are made for powder runs. Both of our local ski areas allow skibikes. One of them started a rental program this year. I think skibiking is the new frontier. I think it will catch on like snowboarding did. “Vive La Skibike!”

____________________________________________________________________________

Date: February 02

Name: Frank J. Palermo

City/State: Black Forest, CO

# Years Riding: 0

Equipment: None

Favorite Riding Area: Nothing yet

Comments: I’m 68 years young, just retired last year, and still very athletic but concerned about my knees and joints if I learn to ski “normally”. This sounds like just the “vehicle” to get my wife and I onto the slopes.  

_____________________________________________________________________________

Date: February 02

Name: Deborah Schwartz  

City/State: Pembroke, MA

# Years Riding: New

Equipment: None

Favorite Riding Area:

Comments: I saw the skibike for the first time on the Today show on 2-12 and thought I would love to try one.

_____________________________________________________________________________

>Page 2