He grew up on a bicycle and adopted a bicycling lifestyle beginning as a military kid on the U. S. Air Force bases on which he lived. He has been active on behalf of bicyclists’ rights years, representing injured cyclists, writing to government agencies about dangerous cycling conditions and speaking before transit agencies, governmental boards, and Bike/Ped committees to promote bicycling. He is currently in his second term as President of the Board of Directors of the Florida Bicycling Association.