Since 2001, Twentysix Inches has had a dedicated number of people that have pushed it along. Over the years some came and some left but the flow has been low and those that put their hand up tend to stick around.

Behind the helm today you’ll find:

G, founding conspirator, man behind Lab-Gear and wearer of many hats.

Riding, in the sense of more than around or to the local shops, since 1983 and on a mountain bike since 1987, bikes of many forms have been a constant in his life, though today you’ll finding riding a bike designed 20 years ago… “because it’s just so damn good”.

Having lived in Southern California during the hey day of the Mountain Bike boom in the early to mid 90’s, he was forever infected with an anodised fetish and love of bikes with boing.

Trained as a product designer and having worked in a vast range of fields, from moto design to web design, these days he splits his time between designing for and running Lab-Gear, working as design director for US based Mountain Cycle and doing Twenty Six Inches ’stuff’ amongst other things…. His personal ’site-o-crap’ can be found [here].

Sammydog aka Lenny… Man of mystery, trail building legend

Sammydog, or Lenny to those fortunate enough to claim to know the mythical man, has allegedly been hitting the trails since the early 90’s. Some may dispute the fact that he actually rides, however on rare occasions he can still be found on a trail riding one of his beloved Proflex bikes.

Lenny can’t help but stick his fingers into places they don’t belong, and probably weren’t really wanted in the first place, and has spent time as the President HMBA  for multiple years, the NSW rep on the MTBA committee, NSWMTB trails advocacy officer and consultative committee member for the Glenrock State Conservation Area. One theory doing the rounds is that Lenny does all this to divert attention from the fact that he doesn’t really know how to ride a bike.

Lenny has a passion for trail advocacy though and if asked will quickly point out his main contributions to the lifestyle of mountainbike have been the retention of trails in the Glenrock area (and subsequent positive relationship with the NPWS) and the development of the Awaba mountainbike park.

Never one to turn down free stuff, lenny can be contacted at ……….with sponsorship offers.