People

The Founders

Kipchoge Spencer

Kipchoge joined his college buddy Ross in 1998 to help turn the product into a business. He works on business development, product testing (especially kayak-carrying diagnostics), sticker sloganeering, and corporate sustainability. He’s leading the charge to show the world how the Longbike changes everything, from urban commerce, to emergency medicine, to sustainable surfing and beyond. He uses his experience as an expedition leader and a think tanker, along with his BS from Stanford’s Earth Systems Program (environmental economics, civil engineering, and resource efficiency), to forge a corporate strategy heavy on values, common sense, and creativity. Find out more about Kipchoge’s other life as a river guide. His band, the Ginger Ninjas, tours by bicycle.

Ross Evans
Ross is the hombre who had the vision, who saw a world in need and came up itching for a fix. He scratched his head and sketched his pad and figured out how to enable a beautiful machine (the bicycle) to meet more needs and desires than it ever had before. He brings more than a decade of bicycle industry experience to the team, and his BS in Engineering/Product Design from Stanford helps ensure there will be an influx of paradigm-busting ideas that will keep Xtracycle on the leading edge. He is a designer, inventor, humanitarian, yogic twister, and photographer. ID Magazine declared him one of the 40 most notable socially responsible designers in the world in 2000. In 2005, his first foray into the child-development biz sold out and was named Toy of the Year within three weeks of its launch.

The Office Crew

Though the extended family of Xtracycle co-conspirators, volunteers, and two-wheeled ne’er do wells numbers in the dozens, the current core crew is a fiery little bundle of four on most days.