Ari started her love for endurance sports as a cross country athlete in high school, then as an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley she enjoyed competing as a collegiate triathlete, including earning a national title her senior year. After college, Ari dabbled in age group triathlons for a little while and her first 70.3 was her last multi-discipline event in 2017. Having missed the camaraderie of being a part of a team, she tried out cycling at the early bird clinics in 2018. Since 2018, until now, she enjoyed racing crits and road races locally ad a member of Revolution Racing (formerly metro mint and JL Velo.) She is currently a Cat 2 and excited for her first year apart of Alto Velo! While Ari enjoys fond memories of the triathlete days and still goes on fun runs with her pup Brody, right now cycling is a great passion of hers. She gives back by mentoring at the Early Bird clinics that first welcomed her into the sport.

Chris has been racing for 9 years and enjoys being part of the cycling community. She is excited about the upcoming season, where she can apply previous experiences to help grow women’s cycling. Chris also loves being a first grade teacher, being around little people who are bursting with energy and enthusiasm.

Robin started riding bikes while at Stanford in 2017 to take a break from being mad at the computer. After getting her PhD, she now works on fun science problems at a biotech startup and is professionally mad at the computer, and can otherwise usually be found on Kings Mountain Road. As a cat 2 road racer, Robin enjoys battling the clock in time trials and hill climbs, and is the 2021-2022 NCNCA TT District Champion, 2020-2022 Bike Hut Classic Age Group winner, and winner of the 2022 Low Key Hill Climb series. Robin also likes wrenching on bikes, descending, and eating.

Sue Lin discovered bike racing in 2018 after previously competing in equestrian, running, and triathlon. She joined Alto Velo and soon ended up managing the women's racing team and joining the board. She particularly loves crit and track racing, but also enjoys riding gravel, running, tennis and skiing.

Andrew began racing triathlons in high school and continued competing through college with the University of Wisconsin Triathlon team. During medical school, he transitioned to cycling and joined a local club team. During the pandemic, he spent most of his time doing adventure rides and completing challenges to include an Everesting, an Ironman, and a 530 mile ride in 24 hours. He moved to California in 2022 for his Physical Medicine and Rehabiliation residency at Stanford.

Cameron started cycling when he moved to California in 2017 and began racing with AVRT in 2019. Prior to cycling he was a coxswain for the Dartmouth Heavyweight Rowing team. Cameron greatly enjoys climbing and long "base miles" rides all over the peninsula. Off the bike, Cameron works in marketing for Soylent.

David grew up ski racing and mountain biking. He started road racing with Alto Velo when he moved to California in 2021 and was immediately drawn to crits for their short and flat nature. He has since dedicated his time to the shortest and flattest cycling discipline - track. He has raced Team Pursuit with Team USA for the last 2 years, but you can usually find him on the peninsula doing an absurdly long training ride for somebody that races for 2 minutes.

Devin grew up in Redlands, CA watching the Redlands Bicycle Classic. It inspired him to do his first race in 2013 when he was just 11 years old. Since then, Devin has raced across the US and Europe. As a new member of AVRT, he looks forward to racing with the squad at both the local and national level. Besides racing, Devin's favorite part of cycling is going on long rides with friends while enjoying the views and hammering the climbs.

Erik grew up in Michigan and after racing for over a decade in New England moved to California in 2024. He loves long spirit quest rides, big climbs, and the camaraderie of riding and racing as a team.

Flo grew up watching the Tour de France every summer with his Grandpa and would recreate each stage with his brother, hammering for hours on local trails. His all-time favorite riders are Andy Schleck and Mark Cavendish. Flo also grew up playing soccer and put bike racing aside to pursue soccer competitively in high school. While attending college at Cal Poly (Go Mustangs!), Flo rediscovered his passion for cycling and raced with AVRT in 2022 after graduating. He loves being outside, exploring new places, and going on epic rides.

Grant moved to the Bay Area in 2019 and started cycling competitively during his commute on the Bayshore trail from Mountain View to Palo Alto. In 2021, he got inspired by NorCal cycling videos to try out racing and despite crashing in his second race stuck with it. Grant joined the AV race team in 2022 and has raced with the team in road and gravel events. Grant works at Faire as a software engineer and has been awarded "Cheapest AVer" 6 years in a row. In 2024 he had a daughter, Kalina, with whom he's excited to share the love of cycling.

Greg has been road racing in Norcal for 10 years. He enjoys the mental game of road racing and the camaraderie of stage racing. You can find him on the local road group rides or somewhere in the woods on a knobby tire bike.

Henry began cycling with collegiate cross-country mountain biking in Upstate New York. After graduating and returning to California, he switched to road riding and quickly developed a love for long rides and steep climbs. Following his first season with AVRT in 2024, he’s excited to take on local races and national-level stage races with the team in 2025.

J can't remember the first time he rode a bike, but all throughout high school he was doing subpar tricks on his BMX bike. He started racing in 2014 in college at Stanford. His first race was only 45 minutes long, but he still managed to bonk. He reps the mid peninsula, so you can find him doing repeats on Trousdale, San Bruno Mountain, Sharp Park, or Sweeney Ridge.

Jack grew up in Taiwan and got into biking after riding around the island (1,000 km) in 7 days. He started racing collegiate cycling in the US and continued racing during his time as a PhD student at Stanford in the last five years.

Jon started bike racing in 2016 during college in Colorado after finishing his time running NCAA track. Since then he has won a collegiate team time trial national title, numerous collegiate team omnium titles, and raced all of the biggest pro crits in the US (ACC and formerly USACRITS). Off the bike, Jon moved to Sacramento this year to start a new job creating renewable fuels.

Nathan is a Bay Area native who started racing in 2017 for local junior team Tieni Duro, raced in college at Michigan, and has been racing with AV since 2023. His favorite climb is Mount Diablo, followed closely by Jamison Creek.

Max grew up in Massachusetts and played football, baseball, and basketball through high school. He went on to play football at Middlebury College in Vermont, where he led his team to an undefeated season in 2019 as the team captain. Max picked up cycling following his senior season of football and began racing after the Covid pandemic in 2021. This will be his third season as a Cat 1 and his first season on Alto Velo.

Leo is a Palo Alto native who started racing in high school, picking up the hobby while learning to become a bicycle mechanic. After a long hiatus during college he resumed racing in 2022 while living in Colorado and continued to race after moving back to the Bay Area to start a job as an Aerospace Engineer.

Brad became obsessed with cycling after downloading Strava in 2016. Since then he has raced on-and-off while collecting many KOM’s around the Bay Area.

Drew grew up riding mountain bikes in the Peninsula. After college, he really fell in love with the sport and decided to pursue racing. Cycling has been an instrumental part of healing from a chronic illness for Drew, mentally and physically. You can find him in Arastradero before sunset for a weekday recovery ride or cruising through his hometown of Portola Valley.

George has always loved riding bikes but started road cycling seriously in 2019. He joined AVRT in 2022 to take the plunge into racing and hasn’t looked back since. Additionally, George is the president of Stanford Cycling and he is passionate about growing collegiate cycling and getting people into the sport.

Jeremy grew up mountain biking in Colorado, and then transitioned to road racing at the University of Colorado Boulder. After burning himself out with four years of collegiate racing, he moved to SF and spent a few years riding just for fun until he returned to serious cycling and joined AVRT in 2021. Outside of cycling, he works as a chemical engineer in biotech and enjoys traveling, skiing, climbing mountains, and being a catdad. You can often find him on long climbs or doing hundreds of laps around the Golden Gate Park polo fields.

Kevin began started cycling, like many, trying to entertain himself during Covid back home in Cincinnati. iIn the winter of 2023, he did his first cyclocross races and was hooked on racing bikes. He completed his first cycling season on Nexigen Racing, focusing on gravel and crit racing. After making it up to Cat 3, work brought him out to California where he quickly picked up riding with the AV crew, joining for the '25 season. When not spinning wheels, Kevin can be found skiing, backpacking, mountaineering, or working his day job as an Engineer in the MedTech space to pay for all the expensive hobbies.

Max got into biking at Stanford in 2019 and became a more focused cyclist and climber during the pandemic. After discovering the Bay Are alongside friends for a couple of years, he joined Alto Velo in 2021 and started racing in 2022. 2025 is Max's third road racing season with the team. Before cycling, Max tried out multiple different sports back in France, among which were rugby, tennis, and soccer. From this time, he remains an avid and eclectic sports enthusiast.

Lora started cycling in 2018 after retiring from competitive running due to an achilles injury. She is from the Seattle area where she ran cross country and track at the University of Washington and post-collegiate for several club teams including the Impala Racing Team in San Francisco. Lora loves team camaraderie and the competitive nature of bike racing. Aside from cycling, she loves spending time with her family, snowboarding, weight training, and yoga while not busy at her day job in commercial insurance operations.

Louise has enjoyed cycling for fun since college but first caught the competitive bug in 2017 entering alleycat races while working as a bike courier in Vancouver. After a hiatus from cycling to develop a startup in China, she returned to the sport in 2020 and started racing with AVRT in 2022. Outside of cycling, Louise works as a mechatronics engineer at Tensorfield Agriculture, an agricultural robotics startup she cofounded in 2018.

A lifelong hockey player, Steph began dabbling in multisport as a grad student with the MIT triathlon team in 2019 and thoroughly enjoyed the bike training along the way. While she hasn't drowned in the swim leg yet, Steph isn't taking any chances and is excited to focus solely on cycling with AVRT in 2023. Off the bike, she is a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley and spends her days shooting lasers in an optical physics lab.

Born and raised in Flagstaff, Arizona. Competed in Category 4 during the 2024 season.

Riley started mountain biking while in high school and has competed in all sorts of cycling disciplines from Enduro to road races. He started racing with Alto Velo in 2023.

Steven is a regular on most Peninsula group rides and joined AVRT in 2024.

Jack picked up cycling in 2022 and quickly discovered a love for riding California hills. Since then, Jack has been a regular on group rides and the Egan ride. He will join AVRT for his first racing season in 2025. Off the bike, Jack is an engineer at a medical device start-up in Menlo Park.

Matin began riding with Alto Velo in 2024 and started racing with AVRT in 2025.

Sam started cycling in 2021 and moved to California later that year. After exploring every corner of the Bay Area on a bike, he was hooked. Sam competed in his first race in 2024 and joined AVRT in 2025. Off the bike, Sam is a product manager for a solar energy startup.

Vasyl started cycling in late 2021. Prior to cycling, he was a tennis player and competed in various UTR tournaments around the Bay Area. He began riding with Alto Velo in 2024 and is excited to start racing in the 2025 season.

Wil got his first road bike in 2020 after moving to the Bay Area to begin his medical residency. His prior background was primarily running around the flat midwest, particularly along the Chicago lakefront. He now finds flat ground boring dove headfirst into the world class climbing in the Bay Area. He first tried out racing in 2024 and looks forward to contributing to AVRT as a new team member in 2025.

Emily began her athletic career as a competitive swimmer (member of the USC women’s national champion team) and performed as an aerial acrobat. Always inspired by her dad, who rides daily even in the brisk Indiana winters, Emily started riding when she moved to San Francisco and started exploring the roads of Marin. After having a couple of kids, Emily joins the AV racing team as an excited rookie. She spends her weekdays working as a trial attorney at a San Francisco law firm.

After years of putzing around on two wheels, aka commuting in San Jose, Hannah is excited to try out racing on the road and track. She loves all-day scenic rides, especially if they involve camping. For her 9-5, she is a program manager for Pinterest. Hannah’s favorite post ride snack is pizza.

Katarina is joining the AVRT for 2024 season after discovering and participating in the B rides throughout 2023. Prior to cycling Katarina played hockey for the Wisconsin Badgers, and for 2 years in Germany before officially retiring in 2018. She loves all disciplines of cycling including road and gravel, but especially mountain biking. Outside of cycling, she enjoys kiteboarding, rock climbing, trail running, and works at Lucid Motors as a technical project manager.

Katie is a former collegiate field hockey player who found cycling after sustaining a few running injuries following graduation. She decided to try out triathlon and discovered quickly she was best on the bike. Katie then became a regular on alto velo b rides and joined the women’s racing team this year. Off the bike, Katie works as a physical therapist in Palo Alto.

Kristin started cycling in 2020 and loved the alone time on the quiet roads away from her kids that were home all day, every day. She loves group rides and the cycling community in general. She finally found the courage to give racing a try this year and is super excited to be doing it with the Alto Velo team.

Robin has been a competitive distance runner for the majority of her life. In 2014, she got a running injury (classic), bought a crappy bike, and rode very far on it (until the injury healed). During covid, she transitioned to more serious cycling, and in 2023 a friend cajoled her into trying her first bike race. She joined AV shortly thereafter. Outside of cycling, Robin is a chemical engineer, mom to 2 cats, world traveler, and lover of sustainable transit.

Bernardo's first tour with AVRT was from 2017 through 2019. While racing for AVRT, he regularly attended most road and crit races and earned awards for best domestique and best masters racer. Bernardo is happy to be back on AVRT for ’23 and looks forward to returning to a heavy racing schedule and putting the pandemic years behind. In 2022 he became race director for Pescadero and plans to stay in that role for the next couple of years. He is a multi-disciplined racer, frequently lining up at the start lines for XC, CX, Gravel, and Road. Most weeks he is a regular on Noon Rides and Spectrum and Wednesday afternoon Golden Spins in the summer.

Brian first joined AVRT in 2021 and started racing that same year. Before AVRT, he was riding mountain bikes and building trails in Oregon. He now loves all road races but especially crits. Off the bike, he has his hands full with two young boys.

Shai started cycling in 2013, after many years of playing Ultimate Frisbee. He joined the Alto Velo Masters Racing Team in 2024 and is a regular in the various group rides around the peninsula. Shai is looking forward to the 2025 road racing season.

A SoCal transplant, cycling was a training tool to bolster a collegiate running career. After "retirement" from running, Joe began cycling and raced before his local club before grad school got in the way. After a return to competitve cycling, Joe is excited to explore and race within NorCal with Alto Velo.

Originally from Pittsburgh, Matthew began racing bicycles in 2007 in Michigan. He claims to have won three state/district championships, but is vague and evasive when pressed for details. He is currently a Cat 3 in road, and he enjoys rides with copious amounts of climbing. He also enjoys riding track racing and riding his CX bike on trails that should be ridden on a mountain bike. Professionally, Matthew directs the engineering team at a company that uses advanced algorithms to improve the efficiency of automotive powertrains.

Michael started cycling when his wife introduced him to the sport in 2015. Coming from alpine ski racing he rapidly adopting cycling racing as his competitive passion. Racing in Vancouver, BC from 2016 to 2019, he found local success in Cat 3/4 on the road and in the velodrome. Climbing is his way of meditating and he enjoys the camaraderie of AVRT. Off the bike, Michael is a Technical Project Manager and Professional Engineer for an energy company in Menlo Park.