The volunteers at the collective ride all sorts of bikes for all sorts of reasons. We have volunteers with the newest and coolest tech on their bikes. And we have volunteers who ride bikes that are older than they are. We have volunteers who have been riding their whole lives and others who learned to ride a bike as adults. We have volunteers who ride ebikes, volunteers who ride bikes they welded themselves, volunteers who ride bikes they got at a bike collective! We have volunteers who commute by bike everyday and others who are unable to ride right now. Do you ride everyday and track your stats? Have you not ridden a bike in 20 years? Somewhere in between? Stop by, we think you will find a place you belong.

The Crew

  • Carol Lucking, Board President

    Carol Lucking has been an enthusiastic cyclist since age 13 when she started going on long bike rides with her dad. From there, it was a quick transition to a bike shop job at 16. She wrenched in various shops for the next 6 years while racing road around the US. Working with the Collective enables Carol to pursue her passions of educating and empowering people through hands on bike workshops. From changing flats to riding safely in traffic, Carol enjoys sharing the independence, joy, and friendship of cycling with everyone.

  • Annie Dunckel, Board Treasurer

    Annie Dunckel is a passionate DIY bike mechanic who loves learning and sharing knowledge. Annie's life became fully immersed in cycling when lived in Austin without a car for many years. The Austin bike scene made her realize that vibrant and creative communities are based around cycling. In Virginia, Annie joined Charlottesville Community bikes where she learned how to wrench from amazing female mentoring mechanics. She has worked and volunteered at many community bike shops across the country and believes in the power of these spaces to bring people together around a common love, bicycles!

  • Jeremy Smith, Board Secretary

    Jeremy Smith fell in love with bicycles while travelling internationally with a street circus on a bike saved from a dumpster. He currently helps run a human-powered vegetable farm and cycles daily as his main mode of transportation and ever reliable source of joy. He has volunteered at other community bike shops and apprenticed at a cargo bike frame building workshop. He likes to take apart coaster brakes. Since helping start up the original Spearfish Bicycle Cooperative in 2009, Jeremy has spent a lot of his time thinking about how to improve resources and infrastructure for cyclists and likes to help plan community bike rides/events/merriment.

  • Emily Brown, Board Member Emeritus, Advisor

    Emily Brown comes from a long line of bike nuts. She doesn’t just love bikes, she believes in them. Current Field Guide at SRAM and former owner of DirtBags Bikepacking, she values the opportunity to use her business as a platform for community building and bike advocacy. With over 13 years of experience with not only branding, marketing, and building businesses, but also a decade of teaching yoga and training instructors, she appreciates soul searching, deep questioning, and learning to embrace the complexities of the human spirit. Emily is outside as often as possible, preferably on a bike with her husband, two children, and two dogs.