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By some standards, Dann's newbie to the "bike shop life" getting his first bike shop gig in 2010. A missionary's kid, he grew up around Tokyo and speaks Japanese. A man of adventure, he took a break from the bikes for a few years to attend Bible and for an internship at a church in England. He's living the good life these days wrenching bikes, wearing lots of wool and trying not o.d. on Grant Peterson. We think you'll enjoy this week's FIVE THINGS.
FIVE THINGS is a weekly feature on the Banjo Brothers Blog. It’s a short interview about life and bicycles with a notable person. This week’s FIVE THINGS is with Judi LoPresti, Co-Owner of Spun Cycles in Banjo Eric's hometown of Cincinnati. LoPresti and her husband Dominic opened Spun in February 2013, three years after getting married at the Interbike, the cycling industry's largest trade show, in Las Vegas and seven years after meeting at Bicycles and More in Cheviot. LoPresti is a former bicycle messenger who didn't get a driver's license until she was thirty.
FIVE THINGS is a weekly feature on the Banjo Brothers Blog. It’s a short interview about life and bicycles with a notable person. This week’s FIVE THINGS is with John Louis, Minneapolis-based singer-songwriter, year-round cyclist and co-founder of Minneapolis' first listening room, The Warming House. Star-Tribune Music Columnist Chris Riemenschneider wrote "Singer/songwriter John Louis [is] equal parts John Prine and Robert Earl Keen." We caught up with John this week on a sunny Wednesday afternoon to get this take on Banjo Brothers Five Things.
FIVE THINGS is a weekly feature on the Banjo Brothers Blog. It’s a short interview about life and bicycles with a notable person. This week’s FIVE THINGS is with cyclist and food policy expert Elisa Muñoz. We first met Ms. Muñoz when she co-founded the Bici Bicycle Cooperative in Birmingham, Alabama and when she was the co-author of the popular (and since retired) cycling blog, Bikeskirt. Easy and equal access to cycling was and still is a goal of the co-op. A relatively new Mom, and now a New Orleans resident, Muñoz and her young son are starting to get back into cycling.
FIVE THINGS is a weekly feature on the Banjo Brothers Blog. It’s a short interview about life and bicycles with a notable person. This week’s FIVE THINGS is with Jennifer Oberpriller, co-founder and co-owner of One on One Bicycle Studio in Minneapolis. For those not immersed in the scene, One on One was, and arguably still is, 'the straw that stirs the drink' when it comes to the evolution of the bike shop into a cultural centerpiece of the city.
