Seller Spotlight: Watson from Upcycle

This week's Seller Spotlight is on Watson, the co-founder of Upcycle, a new peer-to-peer bike rental marketplace. He has a bunch of parts sitting around from riding and owning lots of bikes over the last several years. Some cool ones include a SRAM GX Eagle crankset and a Specialized S-Works Romin saddle.

And now for our five easy questions!

How did you get into bikes?
I’ve been riding bikes most of my life. I started riding dirt jump bikes in high school which somehow evolved into cross-country racing. Growing up, I raced for my high school cross-country team in Petaluma California, at Casa Grande High School. After graduating, I sold my mountain bikes and bought a road bike and a fixed gear which I used to ride around in college at UC Davis. Now that I’m an adult, I have all the bikes again! N+1 as they say.

What bike do you ride the most?
The bike that has the most miles is my Baum cyclocross bike which I use mostly as a road bike.

What is your favorite bike ride?
For mountain biking, I like Demo Forest in Santa Cruz. For road biking it’s hard to beat riding in Mallorca.

Campy or Shimano?
Sram because it’s what I’m used to and their road brake levers don’t have lateral movement. But I would heavily consider Campy on a future road build!

Any big plans for the next year?
Continuing work on Upcycle, racing BC Bike Race 2024, going to Bentonville, finishing a Dario Pegoretti build that my wife bought me, and riding bikes wherever life takes me!