Bike Clark County started as an idea: that kids should be outside riding their bikes, that adults can use their bike as a viable mode of transportation, and that families can safely enjoy a ride together on our streets and local trails.
We’ve grown from a vision into a robust organization offering programs and bikes for kids and schools, organizing community events and rides, and now operating a full service bike shop in downtown Vancouver!
Bike Clark County is organized and operated by a board of directors, who share the vision of promoting cycling in Clark County. We do not charge membership dues, we simply ask that you get involved by volunteering your time or you consider making a donation to help Bike Clark County to pedal on!
Through community partnerships and the effort of volunteers, we promote bicycle access, education, safety and the enjoyment of cycling to the children and adults of SW Washington. In simple terms, that translates to getting more people out riding bikes.
Bike Clark County is committed to providing an environment of diversity in which anyone is welcome to participate in our programs, activities, and events in order to learn about bicycle safety, maintenance, repair, and operation. Bike Clark County does not exclude or deny access to our shop, its programs, activities, and events to any person on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, veteran or legal status, age, gender or gender identity, or disability. Furthermore, Bike Clark County expects all of its staff, members, volunteers, and participants to promote a climate of diversity where everyone values individual and group differences, respects the perspectives of others, and communicates openly. However, Bike Clark County maintains the right to ask any person not able to publicly uphold these values during our programs, events, and activities at any location to leave the vicinity immediately.
Our programs are usually free and made possible through generous donations. We provide as much financial assistance as possible by sharing resources and seeking on going funding to supplement the cost of our programs. Unfortunately BCC does not have the resources to fully subsidize every program. You are the best fundraiser for your own program but we can help.
VICE PRESIDENT & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
peter@bikeclarkcounty.org
Pete helped co-found BCC in 2006 with local community volunteers and leaders. He has a bachelor of science in Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Business Administration. Previously, Peter owned an environmental consulting business. Currently, as Executive Director of Bike Clark County, Peter works to support and expand Bike Clark County’s programs. In 2017, Peter helped Bike Clark County open a full-service bike shop, which he now manages. Additionally, Peter has worked extensively to secure funding for Bike Clark County’s programs through grant writing and other fundraising efforts. In his free time, he enjoys all types of cycling, camping, hiking, backpacking, and adventuring. He is also a volunteer Climbing Steward for the Mount St Helens Institute nonprofit.
FOUNDER
eric@bikeclarkcounty.org
Eric is a Vancouver firefighter / paramedic and father of twin girls who love to ride around town and along the Columbia River. Eric commutes regularly, the whole family races, does an annual bike tour and uses their bike and trailer to bring home groceries and a good six-pack.
BOARD MEMBER
preston@bikeclarkcounty.org
Preston is a Vancouver native and has been biking around the PNW since childhood. He rides bikes around town for fun and transportation, and around the PNW wherever the trail leads. Preston teaches middle school and first connected with BCC when he sought help starting a middle school bike intramural in 2012. Since then Preston has been a regular BCC volunteer, led BCC’s 2016 summer bike camps, and he still assists with the Bike to Leadership high school program.
BOARD MEMBER
Mike is an OB/Gyn physician in our community and the Medical Director of the Family Birth Center at PeaceHealth Southwest. He cycled through college and medical school for transportation, fitness and just to blow off steam. After miraculously surviving the streets of Philadelphia, he moved to Vancouver and started a family. Here is a cycling commuter, local team member and recreational enthusiast. Give him sunshine, two wheels and a friend, and he is a happy man.
BOARD MEMBER
Brooke is an environmental engineer at Maul Foster & Alongi with a focus on stormwater and remediation in the northwest. During high school, Brooke worked for the Vancouver Parks & Rec with after school/summer programs and as an inclusion mentor in underserved communities. She started biking in college and decided to jump straight into half ironmans after that. Brooke also loves soccer, more soccer, and gardening.
BOARD PRESIDENT
Chris has been involved with Bike Clark County for a decade. When he’s not teaching middle school science, he’s out exploring on his bike, touring new places and enjoying the roads less biked (because it’s completely overgrown). In his spare time, you’ll find him tinkering away in the garage, building bikes or planning for the next adventure. In the spring, Chris helps coach the local Special Olympics cycling team. Bicycles and bike infrastructure foster community.
BOARD MEMBER
Sherry has worked for PeaceHealth for 23 years and is currently the Columbia Network Informatics director. In her words, ‘It means I help bridge the gap between patient care and the computer system’. She is relatively new to the cycling world, becoming an avid recreational cyclist only about 8 years ago. Since that time, She has become a jack of all trades in cycling, with a Fat-Tire bike for the beach and snow riding, a soft-tail for mountain biking and a hybrid as her road bike. She moved to Vancouver in the Fall of 2017 and started coming to the Thursday volunteer nights to fix up kids bikes and joined the BCC board in March of 2019.
BOARD MEMBER
Sally is a retired physician with a passion for community service and has served on many boards in Clark County. She is an avid road and gravel cyclist who has travelled around the world on bike trips. Her goal is to be outside every day and get more people riding bikes!
BIKE SHOP SERVICE MANAGER
His friends call him Bike Ryan, and his middle name is Forrest. He currently works in environmental conservation, but has been in love with bicycles for decades. As a past bike mechanic, Bike Clark County puts his years of experience to good use. Find him mountain biking, camping or sculpting bonsai.
BIKE SHOP SALES ASSOCIATE / VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR
Benjamin is a bicycle enthusiast, advocate, and commuter. He lives in a tiny house that he and his partner designed and built with a combination of new, salvaged and upcycled materials. He loves legumes, and enjoys playing and writing music, fabrication, growing and cooking food, and biking on old fire roads.
Email: info@bikeclarkcounty.org
Mailing Address: 1604 Main Street Vancouver WA 98660
Email: shop@bikeclarkcounty.org
Location: 1604 Main Street Vancouver WA 98660
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