Pat is the former Senior Mountain Bike Editor at OutdoorGearLab. He is currently the co-owner of Over The Edge bike shop in South Lake Tahoe, CA. He grew up in the wet woods of New England and earned his Bachelor's Degree at Saint Michael’s College in Burlington, Vermont. While he has been riding bikes in the woods his whole life, Pat’s mountain bike obsession really took off in 2003. Since then, he has worked in the bicycle industry for approximately eight years. He has extensive experience in a wide range of disciplines ranging from gravity-fed enduro and downhill riding to epic full-day rides and evenings at the dirt jumps.
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