Spring 2013 BicyCAL Mechanic Biographies
Mark Guadagni
Year: Junior
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Why/when did you get involved with BicyCAL?
I became involved in 2011 because I wanted to learn more about bikes and help out my fellow students.
What else are you involved with?
I am also involved in IM sports and the school's Formula SAE racecar team.
What is your favorite thing about BicyCAL?
My favorite thing aboutBicyCALis seeing decrepit bikes become functional and safer.
Fun Fact?
I like low end bikes
Nolan Wong
Year: 2nd Year
Major: Intended Molecular Toxicology
Why/when did you get involved with BicyCAL?
Fall 2012 because the shop crew looked like they knew their stuff
What else are you involved with?
I'm part of a yoyo club and a German Kabarett group
What is your favorite thing about BicyCAL?
Probably trackstanding outside the DSP.
Fun Fact?
I don't like to ride bikes. I just like to sit still on them.
Chris Corral
Year: Sophomore
Major: Nutritional Science Phys&Met.; Sociology
Why/when did you get involved with BicyCAL?
Part of the reason I came to Berkeley was for the cycling culture, which was much richer than any of my other college options… I found out aboutBicyCALfrom a fellow cyclist on a team ride, and stopped by sometime the next week and started hanging out!
What else are you involved with?
I currently race road bikes forCalCycling (the UC Berkeley team) and Metromint, a SF based team.
What is your favorite thing about BicyCAL?
The professionalism.
Fun Fact?
My right tear duct is collapsed from getting hit in the eye by a football.
Nadir Jeevanjee
Year: Nth year Ph.D. student
Major: Physics.
Why/when did you get involved with BicyCAL?
I became involved withBicyCALin the Fall of 2011 in an attempt to get away from my computer and learn skills that might prove useful after the apocalypse.
What is your favorite thing about BicyCAL?
My favorite things aboutBicyCALare the self-reliance and empowerment it fosters, the camaraderie, and the semi-annual free pizza.
Doug Williams
Year in school: BSEECS 2006, Staff since 2009
Major: Malfunction
Why/when did you get involved with BicyCAL?
Fall '10 I think? Shortly after it moved into the stairwell. Got involved because I love bikes.
What else are you involved with?
www.spokeland.org
What is your favorite thing about BicyCAL?
Helping bikes
Fun Fact?
Once had my hair cut by Rico London, official celebrity barber.
Austin Andrews
Year: graduate student
Why/when did you get involved with BicyCAL?
I have been involved with BicyCAL since the spring of 2009. I got involved because I liked, and continue to like, working on bicycles. This, in concert with the fact that I was slightly disappointed by the paucity of bicycle resources on campus, gave me cause to try to make the bike coop thing a reality.
What else are you involved with?
BicyCAL is the only thing that I do that is 'non-academic' on campus. But this is just as well as I really like the bike coop. Why is that? Because while affecting positive change is generally pretty hard, working at BicyCAL is fun and easy.
Fun Fact?
Unrelatedly, I was born in Morocco.