
Long-time World Cup mechanic and man behind the legendary stiksanstones.com (RIP), Craig "Stikman" Glaspell has been in the MTB game since the glory days. We're stoked to put him in our Forum Hot Seat. -gordo
Name: Craig “Stikman” Glaspell
Age: 44, with the hair of a 72 yr old, or lack thereof
Years riding: Over 30, I was at the tail end of the Puerco DH race era, the young kid showing up to race in the 80’s.
Education: high school drop out, then went back to college about 3 different times. Finishing college shows commitment and ability to finish tasks. So my education shows a fail in that regard, but I have been with my wife for 22 years, faithfully and I generally work for people for long periods of time, so, I’m ok with my education or lack there of.
Hometown: Grew up in North Hollywood Ca, Living in Santa Ana with wife and daughter
Job History:
- 80’s I worked at a bike shop called Bicycle Center, an iconic BMX and MTB shop in Redondo Beach, between that shop, Charlie Litsky and Dave Cullinan, they gave me a career.
- late 80’s and into early 90’s, I wanted to be John Tomac, but, I realized I would never be that, so I quit racing, focused on creating champions.
- 1993 to 2004 : was the top team tech guy (Douche statement alert), had a stretch of making 6 figure salary doing it, it was a golden era. Started a MTB gossip blog before anyone knew what the fuck that was (stiksandstones.com), helped developed a shit ton of products with cool brands, worked with the best riders in the world, a few dozen championships were won via the athletes I worked with, most iconic of those being Leigh Donovan and Brian Lopes, 4 amazing years of them ruining the hopes of teams with far bigger budgets and staff-we were the smallest but mightiest race program of all time.
- 2004-2010 : I quit the bike industry and became a stay at home parent, my retired-racer wife (Leigh Donovan) had a kick ass business that was very successful, so I took care of our daughter, did side gigs of photography, broadcasting with Rob Warner in the Freecaster days but NEVER left being a superfan of Downhill racing.
- 2010 : Marketing Director for Intense Cycles
- 2011 to Current : Global Marketing For Bike at Troy Lee Designs, working for the craziest dude in the business, who loves racing more than anyone I know-except for Roskopp! Troy and Rob could have a battle on who loves racing more.
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