Rick

Rick sold his 1968 Datsun truck when he was 18. It was the only way he could pay for the repairs.   He spent nearly a whole day in a bicycle shop in Missoula, Montana bike shop learning about bikes. It was the enthusiasm of that salesman that started the cycling lifestyle he lives today.        

Right away he took to road racing. It was the early eighties. Within months he relocated to San Diego California, a hotbed of cycling. While attending college he worked at Zumwalts Cyclery. It is there he began to learn his trade. He soon found his nitch on the Velodromes of Southern California. He rapidly rose to a category 2 track racer. He won many races and place 3 rd in the 1986 regional track championships. At this time he began racing mountain bikes also. Mountain biking was in it's infancy and Rick was right there in the thick of things racing often beating the Ross pro's.

From there he headed to Connecticut to work and race for Cannondale Corporation. He won many Connecticut State Track Championships (he lapped Doug Day 3 times in the points race). In 1992 he teamed with Doug Day and earned a bronze medal in the Tandem time trial at the Olympic trials. During the late 80's and early 90's he placed well in many track, road, and mountain bike races. He even won a few.

In 1990 he left Cannondale briefly to open and manage Westport Bicycles. The year he spent in this position helped him realize the passion he had for retail.   He returned to Cannondale to work in research and development. His primary responsibilities were to test and approve component specifications for bicycles. How about that, testing bikes for a living.

Contact Rick in sales by email...click here.

Mike

Mike Savage is one of the most passionate cyclists you will ever meet. He is also one of the best and most knowledgeable bicycle mechanics in New England. He has a vast knowledge of vintage equipment to the most modern hydraulic systems. In the last quarter century he has built and fixed it all.

Mike has been racing BMX for 27 years, starting in 1980 at the young age of 13.  Everyday after school and all summer he would practice for as long as he could.  Growing up he hitched rides with other racers and his parents to BMX races. He was hooked on it years before he even started racing.  When he did start racing he was a natural and did very well.  Mike became a full time world champion racer in 1996 and was dedicated employee at CT Bike Shop in Bristol for 22 years.   From there he went to Rad Robs in Shelton where he turned wrenches for 2 ½ years.  Now he has made his final landing at Cycle Fitness. 

Mikes earned  nearly 70 Number 1 plates in the USA during his still ongoing career and still counting.

If anyone needs BMX advice,  whether it’s sizing of a frame or how to handle the double at Trumbull Track,  he is your man. 

Not a lot of BMX racers can say they are a WORLD CHAMPION.  Mike pulled it off in 1996 with a Gold Medal ride in Cruiser 30-34 age group.         

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Take a look at his recent videos from Europe: 

Geneva Switzerland December 2005:  Mike leads from the first double. 

Chedder England July 2006 (European Championships):  Mike gets a great lead until he almost faceplants the triple.  He still pulls off a 3^rd place.

Lyon France November 2006:  Mike is in Blue and pulls off a second place. 

Contact Mike in service by email...click here.

Eric

In the Summer of 1993 Eric's steel 10-speed bike of 10 years had had it. It is easy to go through bikes in New York City. Three bikes later, He got his first Cannondale roadbike, an original 1987 frame with one-of a kind original paint and original components, but only about 200miles on it! Heaven. Moving to Connecticut after three years as a monk and same as an elementary school science teacher in NYC, He is still riding the same frame, though most of the components have been upgraded 'I kept all the original parts and since Rick showed me it was the first Cannondale frame year, I am happy I did.' As well as a cycling enthusiast, Eric leads workshops and makes unique sculptures from coathangers (see zenbend.com).

Tara's Dad always rode , liked buying new things : boat, bikes,   and tried them all out. Then he met Rick and bought all sorts of bikes: Mountain, Road, Cross (for winter), a Tandem (so mom rides too...), a Track Bike, a Tri Bike, and Rockhopper Comp for Tara.    He raced in Road races and time trials, and Tara was there to cheer him on. At the Connecticut State Road Race in the mid-90's he came in third place. He was so good ...now he's mellowed out a bit. They started riding together when She was a child At nine or ten they rode trails. She rode until she got a job at Cycle fitness... hmmm Interesting. Tara will finish her studies as a Radiographer at Saint Vincent's College May 2007.