{"id":2446474,"date":"2019-07-18T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=309569"},"modified":"2019-07-18T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T12:00:00","slug":"guide-life-biking-buttermilk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/guide-life-biking-buttermilk\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide Life: Biking Buttermilk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.8417391304348\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-309569-402\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/guidelife-atw-071119-7-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/guidelife-atw-071119-7.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times | Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times | Jack Boyd leads a bike tour on the Butterline Trail.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Jack Boyd leads a bike tour on the Butterline Trail.<\/strong><br \/>Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times | Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/guidelife-atw-071119-7.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Boyd leads a bike tour on the Butterline Trail.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/guidelife-atw-071119-7-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/guidelife-atw-071119-7-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times | Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times | Jack and Mark take in the view with a guest during a tour on the Butterline Trail to Sky Mountain Park.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Jack and Mark take in the view with a guest during a tour on the Butterline Trail to Sky Mountain Park.<\/strong><br \/>Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times | Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/guidelife-atw-071119-7-1.jpg\" alt=\"Jack and Mark take in the view with a guest during a tour on the Butterline Trail to Sky Mountain Park.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/guidelife-atw-071119-7-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/guidelife-atw-071119-7-2.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times | Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times | Mark Welgos tunes a bike in his mobile bike repair trailer.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Mark Welgos tunes a bike in his mobile bike repair trailer.<\/strong><br \/>Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times | Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/guidelife-atw-071119-7-2.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Welgos tunes a bike in his mobile bike repair trailer.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/guidelife-atw-071119-7-3-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/guidelife-atw-071119-7-3.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times | Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times | The tools of the trade in the Ride Aspen mobile repair trailer.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>The tools of the trade in the Ride Aspen mobile repair trailer.<\/strong><br \/>Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times | Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/guidelife-atw-071119-7-3.jpg\" alt=\"The tools of the trade in the Ride Aspen mobile repair trailer.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/guidelife-atw-071119-7-4-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/guidelife-atw-071119-7-4.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times | Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times |\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-2\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7\">\n<p>Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times | Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/guidelife-atw-071119-7-4.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/guidelife-atw-071119-7-5-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/guidelife-atw-071119-7-5.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times | Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times | The Ride Aspen mobile bike trailer sets up shop regularly at the Summer Saturday Market.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>The Ride Aspen mobile bike trailer sets up shop regularly at the Summer Saturday Market.<\/strong><br \/>Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times | Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/guidelife-atw-071119-7-5.jpg\" alt=\"The Ride Aspen mobile bike trailer sets up shop regularly at the Summer Saturday Market.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/guidelife-atw-071119-7-6-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/guidelife-atw-071119-7-6.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times | Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times | Ride Aspen uses a chalkboard at the Saturday Market to entice customers to\" extra guides mark welgos and jack boyd on=\"mega\" pretty class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"9\">\n<p><strong>Ride Aspen uses a chalkboard at the Saturday Market to entice customers to &#8220;extra rad&#8221; guides Mark Welgos and Jack Boyd on &#8220;mega pretty rides.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times | Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/guidelife-atw-071119-7-6.jpg\" alt=\"Ride Aspen uses a chalkboard at the Saturday Market to entice customers to \" extra guides mark welgos and jack boyd on=\"mega\" pretty><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/guidelife-atw-071119-7-7-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/guidelife-atw-071119-7-7.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times | Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times | Jack and Mark pause on the trail to discuss riding technique and give instruction to their guest.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Jack and Mark pause on the trail to discuss riding technique and give instruction to their guest.<\/strong><br \/>Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times | Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/guidelife-atw-071119-7-7.jpg\" alt=\"Jack and Mark pause on the trail to discuss riding technique and give instruction to their guest.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/magazines\/aspen-times-weekly\/guide-life-biking-buttermilk\/?#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/magazines\/aspen-times-weekly\/guide-life-biking-buttermilk\/?#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\"><strong>Who:<\/strong> Mark Welgos, Bike Guide &amp; Rid Aspen Proprietor<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\"><strong>Hometown:<\/strong> Aspen, Colorado<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\"><strong>Age:<\/strong> 34<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I remember riding my Gary Fisher Sugar 1 up Smuggler Mountain and doing the backside into Hunter Creek and riding the trails around Aspen. This would have been around eighth grade. I used to ride the crap out of that bicycle and really beat it up. My parents would help me with the repair costs here and there, but they started seeing how much it added up, so that\u2019s how I started working on bikes: my need to fix my own.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I started screwing around, changing out the cable and housing on it with absolutely no experience \u2014 just tearing apart my bike and learning how to reassemble it. I learned quickly that you need a little background information to do that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In high school and even after college, I worked in a number of bike shops here and I saw a big void in terms of customer need and the personal side of the business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A lot of people would ask in shops, \u201cDo you pick up bikes, because I don\u2019t have a bike rack or a big enough car.\u201d Or ask, \u201cIs there anyone who can show me around? Do you give mountain-biking lessons?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Back then I didn\u2019t\u2019 know anybody doing that kind of thing, so I wanted to show people around the trails in the valley and show them how we experience Aspen. I want to give them the best opportunity to experience Aspen through our eyes. So we started Ride Aspen three years ago. There was a huge void in the market for this type of bike concierge service we do. We wanted to bring personal service to bike repairs and bike tunes, so we pick up and drop off bikes. Same with our rental business. We set our guests up properly in a relaxed one-on-one atmosphere. It\u2019s a personal touch. We make sure the bike fits perfectly. We can explain the ride and where to go. We can take them out. It\u2019s a lot more personal than when I was working in the shops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">We don\u2019t have a brick-and-mortar location, but the bike business comes out of referrals about how good the work you do is, so we make customers happy and make sure they refer us to their friends and out-of-towners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">People come from sea level and try to do these bike rides around here and they really struggle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">So the e-bike explosion in Aspen has helped out a lot of our guests to actually be able to enjoy Aspen on a bike and not just struggle. Those are the experiences this summer that really stick out to me, because people are enjoying the tour a lot more than on a regular bike. They can look around and enjoy the scenery and take in the views, rather than grunting up a hill and trying to get there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">We all ski instruct in the wintertime and I take care of a home year-round on McLain Flats. So like any Aspen worker, we all have a number of jobs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\"><em>\u2013 As told to Andrew Travers<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/magazines\/aspen-times-weekly\/guide-life-biking-buttermilk\/?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Boyd leads a bike tour on the Butterline Trail.Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times | Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times Jack and Mark take in the view with a guest during a tour on the Butterline Trail to Sky Mountain Park.Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times | Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times Mark Welgos tunes a bike in his mobile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2446474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 13:31:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}