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FIVE THINGS is a weekly feature on the Banjo Brothers Blog. It’s a short interview about life and bicycles with a notable person or persons. This week’s FIVE THINGS is with the car-free, professional artist, urban-sketching duo Ken and Roberta Avidor.
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 Perennial Cycle owner Luke Breen.
Luke and the Banjo Brothers' relationship goes back all the way to Banjo Brothers' inception in 2003. Breen attracted attention to his store in 2016 when he dumped the name of his shop (Calhoun Cycle) over the controversial history of John C. Calhoun, described as one of the most aggressive segregationists and proponents of slavery in U.S. History. It was a risky move considering the brand equity Breen built over the past 20 years.
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 travel photographer/photojournalist/artist and avid city cyclist, Tod Seelie. Seelie has photographed in 25 countries on five different continents. His work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Stern Magazine, TIME, Wired, New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, Spin, Juxtapoz, Thrasher, Vice, Der Speigel and Mass Appeal among others. Enjoy this week's Five Things.
This week’s FIVE THINGS is with Saisha Harris, Creative Director, All-City Cycles. The Banjo Brothers were determined to score an interview with Ms. Harris after watching the video, "Quest for the Electric Queen" - which we consider one of one of the finest, most inventive, well-executed marketing projects we've ever seen in or out of the bicycle industry. On-target, inventive marketing is nothing new to All-City, but Harris seems to have a knack for connecting people to brands on an emotional level and simply making sh*t happen and getting sh*t done. We hope you enjoy this week's Five Things.
