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Mark Tuttle Mark Tuttle
Editor, Rider Magazine
Mark has been the Editor of Rider since 1989 and on staff since 1984. He started riding motorcycles at age 9, first in the dirt and later (when the state would allow it) on the street, where he now spends most of his time. Mark dreamed of working at a motorcycle magazine and studied English, journalism and motorcycle mechanics in college with the hope of someday landing a staff position when he became older and wiser. Rider preferred he start at age 24, however, and get his training on the job. Mark is a Charter Life member of the American Motorcyclist Association, and received its first Excellence in Media award in 2004. In addition to scheduling and editing the monthly magazine’s content and managing its staff and contributors, Tuttle has written hundreds of feature stories and motorcycle road tests, tour reviews, buyers guides and editorial columns, and in the past has authored the magazine’s Tech Q&A column and technical features. He is a regular Featured Speaker at the country’s largest annual all-brand motorcycle rally, and has ridden motorcycles extensively abroad as well as in 45 states in the USA.When he’s not riding, solo or with his wife Genie, Mark enjoys working on his small collection of motorcycles, photography, hanging out with son Alex, 19, and camping, particularly by motorcycle. He is currently planning a trip that will take in the best roads in Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon, Nebraska and North Dakota, though not necessarily in that order.
Website: RiderMagazine.com



Greg Drevenstedt Greg Drevenstedt
Road Test Editor, Rider Magazine
Having joined Rider in March 2008, Greg is the staff newbie, the FNG, low bro on the totem pole. In addition to attending new motorcycle intros and other events, you can find him hosting our web show Rider 360, in photo shoots, taking test bikes to the dyno, and managing our website (yes, he’s the guy tweeting on Twitter and navigating the “statusphere” on Facebook). But he hasn’t always lived the glamorous, over-worked, under-paid life of a motojournalist. Greg is a refugee from university research and teaching, corporate number-crunching and small business ownership. It took 19 residential moves, 7 states, 5 career changes, 3 universities, 1 divorce and a major hurricane to get him where he is today. When he’s not riding or writing, he’s out mountain biking, hiking and exploring Southern California.
Website: RiderMagazine.com



Donya Carlson Donya Carlson
Senior Managing Editor, Rider Magazine
Donya Carlson started at Rider in 1984 and is senior managing editor. Even after all these years and rides on hundreds of test bikes, Donya still gets excited about the new motorcycles that come here for testing. She’s ridden behemoths from the Victory Vision Tour Premium tested in the September 2009 issue and many Honda Gold Wings to the non-freeway-legal Honda Elite 108cc scooter she recently got to zoom around the streets of Beverly Hills and Hollywood on, picking up playing cards for a poker run. Some of her most memorable motorcycle experiences include riding in Zimbabwe, Africa, on an Edelweiss tour and coming around a corner to find an elephant in the road; and a Beach’s Motorcycle Adventures tour where they picked their way over technical Gavia Pass in the Italian Alps so slowly that bicyclists passed the motorcyclists. In addition to riding, she enjoys being with family and friends, summer days at the beach, camping, hiking and get-togethers.
Website: RiderMagazine.com

Arden Kysely Arden Kysely
Contributor, Rider Magazine
A mild-mannered software engineer by day, Arden’s real passions are two wheel travel and the outdoors. Riding and camping harmonize exquisitely on a dual-sport, as he found on his first moto-camping trip at age 16. But he’s not a motorcycle snob. In fact, he’ll ride–and enjoy–most anything on two wheels (that TU250X Suzuki was a kick!). Some bikes suit him better than others, but they all provide the same wind-in-your-face whoopee that he’s associated with motorcycling since he pestered his dad into buying a bike before Arden could legally operate one. Growing up, he rode with the kids in his neighborhood and their friends. Today, he still rides with several of them. Riding motorcycles brings them together and has kept them together for decades now. And every time they talk, the subject turns to…well, you know.
Website: RiderMagazine.com



Clement Salvadori Clement Salvadori
Contributor, Rider Magazine
Clement first got behind the handlebars at age 15, and has been riding ever since. A million miles went under his butt years ago. He rode a BMW R75/5 around the world in the 1970s, and has motorcycled through some 70 countries on six continents. If he’s late on his blogs, it’s because he is out riding.Website: RiderMagazine.com



Chris Sidah Chris Sidah
Contributor, Rider Magazine
Chris started riding in 1964 on a brand new Yamaha 80. He raced SoCal deserts for many years and then roadraced at the club level at Ontario, Riverside, Sears Point, etc. He’s been in the motorcycle business since 1968, and says “I’m just this guy doing what I do.”
Website: RiderMagazine.com



Robert Pandya Robert Pandya
Industry Insider
Robert Pandya has had many jobs in the motorcycle industry, including a salesman, service writer, and shop monkey at local dealerships. Graduating with a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Texas, there was a decade long break before motorcycles called him back into the fray. As the PR and Events Manager for Aprilia USA, along with Moto Guzzi North America for a short while, his experiences grew internationally as well. His clients currently include Victory motorcycles and the International Motorcycle Shows and several photography and video clients. A fan of all things with two wheels and a motor, he struggles to keep seven personal motorcycles alive, but has no problem justifying the need for seven motorcycles.
Websites: VictoryMotorcycles.com & MotorcycleShows.com



Mark Kincart Mark Kincart
Industry Insider
Mark Kincart is Apparel Specialist for FirstGear, a subsidiary of Tucker Rocky. He travels around the U.S. working with motorcycle dealers and sales reps, and testing FirstGear apparel on and off road. With more than 350,000 miles on two wheels in FirstGear, he walks the walk and rides the ride. Before working at FirstGear/Tucker Rocky, he started, ran and ultimately sold two businesses in the automotive industry, one that made gaskets and another that customized H1 Hummers. He’s based in Gunnison, Colorado, where he lives with his lovely and very understanding wife, Rose. With three grown children and two grand-children, he’s earned every one of his gray hairs.
Website: FirstGear-USA.com



thomas-2 Thomas Tomczyk
Correspondent
Thomas Tomczyk is a journalist and magazine publisher. He learned how to ride motorcycles in 1994, on the back streets of New Delhi, India, two days before buying a 1989 Royal Enfield 350 Bullet. He ended up riding a 20,000 kilometer path that took him south to Trivandrum, east to Assam and north to Kashmir. Thomas has been returning to India every five years to write articles and travel, always buying a bike at the same family run bike shop in New Deli’s Karol Bagh neighborhood. Thomas has an undergraduate degree in Architecture from University of Arkansas and Masters in Journalism from University of Missouri. In 2003 he launched an monthly magazine, Bay Islands Voice, on the Caribbean island of Roatan, Honduras. When he is not with friends or working, he is windsurfing or free diving off the island’s reefs. In November he began a motorcycle riding and writing adventure that will take him from South Africa to Morocco.
Web site: AfricaHeartBeat.com