BikeThrow.com

Darrin Homme
Senior Vice President of Human Relations

At one time racing for the Flanders Bros. bicycle shop as a mid-level elite cyclist, Homme now specializes in sitting on the couch Sunday afternoons cheering on his Packers while drinking a six-pack of Budweiser and smoking Winston’s.

Homme tends to draw upon his experiences as pack fodder to provide critiques of the local cycling scene from the viewpoint of an “average-joe.” His persona is comparable to that of the local ‘townies’ that descend upon high school football games across the state on Friday evenings wearing their 1983 letterman’s jacket and discussing the scholarship that got away. It is through this lens that Homme is able to provide the important insight of the local peloton that you have come to expect.

Homme currently resides in the suburbs with his much better half and their two kids. He is commonly referred to as a caring father, awesome husband, and below average I.T. consultant at a local financial firm in Downtown Minneapolis, which also doubles as the main recording studio for BikeThrow.com

Homme’s opinions on all things outside of the bicycle world can be found at nickelnuts.com.

Tim Hayes
Chief Self-Promotion Officer

Tim Hayes is a former hockey prep star who couldn’t make it in the pro ranks. Instead, he went to college at the U of M to become a high school history teacher. While in college, he decided to become a bike messenger on the streets of Minneapolis. Being a messenger was so awesome he dropped out of college to dedicate himself full time to this glorious profession.  As a messenger, he was considered a super rookie (hences the nickname) by all other messengers and lived the rock star life that all messengers live in Minneapolis.  When the women, drugs and rock and roll became too much, he decided to move to Chicago in 2005 to work as a foot massage therapist. Chicago was too big of a city for Hayes, so he came back to Minneapolis in 2006 to a plush job at an investment banker downtown. In 2007, he quit the rat race to go back to college and pursue that elusive teaching career.

Hayes is a Cat 2 on the track and Cat 3 on the road and cross for the Grumpy’s Little Guy Racing Team. He was the first up the hill on the first lap at the Stillwater Crit and also got Chris Horner to sign his jersey during the middle of a cross race in Iowa. His specialty is screaming at the officials and getting lapped by Adam Bergman at the track.

You can read all about how wonderful he is at super-rookie.com.

Andy Frye
Chief Conservative Coalition Officer 

Formerly a high level staffer for former U.S. Senator Rudy Boschwitz, Frye has had a long love/hate relationship with bicycles in Minnesota. As a top mileage winner with the Twin Cites Bicycle Club in 1986, Frye moved into the racing scene 20 years ago gaining mediocre results in category 4 events, before discovering the ways of trickle down economics and irrational environmental policies that placed bicycles to the margins of society. Upon recently discovering the healthy benefits of cycling Frye has bought a Volvo station wagon and has begun a statewide crusade to limit the use of wd-40 statewide for a multitude of reasons, including, a) lack of proper lubrication for bicycle chains and b) the importance of clean drinking water.
 
It is only a matter of time before this father of twins will be able to settle into a groove on the south side of Minneapolis.  Andy is a “medical device” sales engineer for a local med tech company.  His specialty on the bike is second place and is usually the only one prepared in the BTDC broadcast studio.  If you would like to see who he has picked a fight with lately, go to http://fryeontherivet.blogspot.com/.