1. My name is Mitchell Dick but everyone calls me Mitch. I’m a Content Creator and Digital Marketing Creative – freelancer for short. Ever since I was a kid I’ve been passionate about sports, fitness, and creating so naturally I built my life around those things.

2. Cycling, although it’s not entirely portrayed that way yet, is a portal to freedom for all walks of life and allows people like myself to try out different bikes when I want to shift how I explore the world on two wheels.

3. Coming from a fixed gear freestyle background, cycling was about tricks and hanging out with friends on the beach. When I started working at a bike shop, it evolved to mountain biking with friends. Once I found road bikes, I realized there was an entire world of “rules” that people lived by and I was the COMPLETE opposite of that. Hairy legs, 5 dollar glasses from Rite Aid, baggy cargo shorts…and black. It took a while to adapt to the “new

norm” but nobody tells you these things when you get started. You just kind of fall face first into people giving you weird looks left and right.

4. Cycling needs more voices to continue the process of normalizing diversity and inclusivity within the sport. We shouldn’t NEED to talk about these things, but we do. I have years of experience as a mixed race cyclist that’s watched cycling evolve in many different ways in and out of my life. I’d like to share my perspective on it all and inspire younger versions of myself out there to keep following their heart and soul. Bikes brought so much awareness and good into my life, and I’m sure it will for others as well.

5. Probably when I was a teenager and I used to just ride around without a care in the world looking for new spots to try out some new tricks. I was more careless then. The difference now is that I basically do the same thing traveling to new places with my road bike. Some things don’t change.