After my initial ride on a rental bike with tour group I soon realized that the physical logistics and time that would need to be devoted to photographing a story about mountain biking in Arizona would require bike ownership. They next day I was at a bike shop purchasing my new Canondale. Over the next two months I would periodically be out riding, meeting riders, scouting and exploring the desert trails at Brown’s Mountain Ranch in North Scottsdale and various slick rock trails of Sedona.