DEVIN MCCOMAS
Contact: devin@boisebicycleproject.org
Executive Director
Many of my earliest memories revolve around biking- learning how to ride while my two older brothers pelted me with crab apples, packing up my things and “riding away” to an abandoned lot by our house, getting gravel pulled out of my forehead after crashing into my brother’s bike on purpose… actually a lot of bike crashes now that I think about it.
The first bike that I got for myself was an olive green 70’s Raleigh road bike that I bought at a Salvation Army in Twin Falls, ID. I had no idea how to work on it and I still have scars from the chain ring on my inner ankle to bear the memory of its stretched out chain and faulty derailleur system.
Freecycles (Hi Bob!!) in Missoula, MT was the first time that I got to see how a coop could extend the agency bikes offered me to other people. I ended up living across the street and became more and more involved in the coop: playing shows at parties, cooking veggie burgers for picnics, having randos crash in our backyard and lending a hand when needed.
I moved to Boise in 2012 and joined the Boise Bicycle Project shortly after. When times were tuff the project was the only way I could keep my transportation up and running. When times were easier I wrenched on my partner’s bike, goofed off and bought unicycles here. Now I work here, getting kids rolling on their bikes!
Devin’s Ride: 1992 Specialized Rock Hopper
“These steel frame specialized mountain bikes are like the BBP Swiss army knife - they'll do anything you want them to. This beauty was deemed unsafe for public consumption and condemned the BBP scrap due to the right rear chainstay's bulge from a freeze/thaw event. I rescued it due to its sick color and prominent Fugazi sticker, rebuilding it with a one by, some back swept bars and a friction shifter. I am only able to run tires 2.0 or lower on it, but it has carried me to Oregon and back, survived being drug behind my car, and provided literally thousands and thousands of miles of good times since 2020. My ol' reliable.”