California Bicycle Museum

Clifford Contreras earned his undergraduate degree at UC Davis in 1983 and began working for the university in 1987. Cliff serves as the campuses’ Director of Transportation, Airport and Parking Services (TAPS) which includes responsibility for the campus bicycle program. He is the chair or member of multiple campus and regional planning, steering, advisory and building committees and boards that advance transportation programs and services throughout the region. He oversees the development and maintenance of five and ten year capital improvement plans for all TAPS facilities and equipment in excess of $200 million and manages TAPS operating and capital budgets in excess of $15 million.

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Anthony was born and raised in Davis and lived here through high school graduation when he left to attend UC Berkeley. After many years in the Bay Area, he returned to Davis where he is now a permanent resident. Like many Davis kids, Anthony grew up playing soccer year round but has also enjoyed a lifelong love of bike riding. He completed his first Davis Double Century as a junior at Davis High School and has done the event 4 more times since then. He is also a veteran of the Foxy's Fall Century and several sprint and half ironman distance triathlons. Aside from serving on the board of directors of the California Bicycle Museum, Anthony is a co-founder and owner of three start-up technology companies located in downtown Davis and is currently the chairman of the City of Davis Business and Economic Development Commission.

Matt Dulcich completed his undergraduate environmental planning degree at UC Davis in 1992. Matt raced criteriums and time trials as a high school student in southern California and worked in a small bike shop learning retail, customer service, and bike repair skills in the bike industry. While a student at UC Davis, Matt guided backpacking, mountain biking, mountaineering, kayaking, and rafting trips in throughout the western United States and skipped school for a 10-week self-supported bike tour in New Zealand. Matt restarted road racing in 2000 and now rides about 7,000 miles each year. Matt works as an environmental and transportation planner at UC Davis and leads much of the campus bike and pedestrian planning efforts. With an emerging interest in bicycle history, Matt eagerly joined the efforts of the California Bicycle Museum and researched and wrote the bicycle history descriptions for the Centennial bike museum display.

Alan Fernandes moved to Davis in 1993 to earn his undergraduate degree at UC Davis. Later he obtained his law degree and is currently an attorney in private practice in Sacramento. Alan specializes in government law and governmental affairs and has in the past successfully advocated for state grant funding for the oldest publicly-owned museum west of the Mississippi, the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. Before practicing law he worked in the private sector for a major investment firm. In addition to his private sector work experience, he has worked for a non-profit organization and both the executive and judicial branches of government. In addition to serving on the Board of the California Bicycle Museum, Alan was the Chairman of the City of Davis' Business and Economic Development Commission. He is a new fan of the sport of cycling and when possible commutes by bicycle into Sacramento from Davis.

Brodie Hamilton has been a resident of Davis since 1969. After receiving his B.S. degree from UC Davis, he worked for the university for 25 years. He served as the Director of Transportation and Parking Services at UC Davis for 13 years and has served in this same capacity at Stanford University for the last eight years. Both positions include responsibility for the campus bicycle programs. Since 1990, he has been involved in a wide variety of local, regional and statewide activities involving bicycling, including the UC Davis Committee on Bicycle Programs, Cyclebration Classic Steering Committee (City of Davis and UC Davis event celebrating the bicycle), Yolo Transportation Management Association, Board of Directors of the Yolo County Transportation District (and member of its Technical Advisory Committee), City of Davis Bike Plan Task Force, Sacramento Area Council of Governments Interstate 80 Corridor Plan Technical Advisory Committee and the Transportation Roundtable, and the Transportation Enhancement Activities Advisory Council the California Department of Transportation. He helped UC Davis secure the Pierce Miller bicycle collection and has been involved in organizing high wheel bike races for many years.

John Hess works as a research faculty member in the Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy in the UC Davis School of Medicine. He moved to Davis in 1977 as an undergraduate, and became completely convinced that cycling was the way to get around. John’s last class at UCD: Bicycle Frame Building from the UC Davis Craft Center. The one and only “Hess” fixed gear bike currently resides in his garage, with plenty of two-wheeled company. John and his wife, Katherine, continue to commute to work at the University and the City via bicycle, ride a tandem to use on bicycling vacations, and often ride “townie” bikes out to enjoy breakfasts, lunches, and dinners. For the past three years, John has been the Davis Bike Club Board “Member at Large,” responsible for organizing the DBC’s annual Fall Century rides for approximately 1300 riders.

Dan Kehew is a graduate of Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and of the UC Davis School of Law, and a member of the State Bar of California. His legal experience includes work for the California Legislative Counsel Bureau (the attorneys employed directly by the California Legislature, drafting legislation and assisting in legislative inquiries) and Yolo County Counsel (civil law office representing Davis’ home county, Yolo). He currently works as a Real Estate Counsel for the California Department of Real Estate. He is also an avid cyclist and bike collector, with 14 ride-worthy bikes ranging up to ninety years old. He recently ended a four year term as a member of the City of Davis’ Bicycle Advisory Commission. He has been involved with the Pierce Miller collection since 2004, and serves as president of the California Bicycle Museum. He regularly reminds fellow CBM board members to “be ambitious” regarding every aspect of the project – an attitude that continues to prove sound.

John Meyer serves as the Vice Chancellor of Resource Management & Planning at the University of California, Davis, which currently enrolls 30,000 students. His office coordinates the university's $2.8 billion annual budget and oversees the planning, design and construction, operations and stewardship of the campus's physical and natural resources. The Office employees approximately 860 staff members. During the 1990s, John served as the city manager of Davis, California. Prior to this time he held other positions in local government and consulting. He was a founding board member of Community Housing Opportunities Corporation, a non-profit organization which provides housing to low-income individuals and families. John holds a master's degree from the University of Southern California and a bachelor's degree from UC Davis. While marathon running is his recreation of choice, John often rides in the slipstream of his wife who cycles over 5,000 miles each year.

Bill Roe moved to Davis in 1970, after earning a degree in Architecture from Iowa State and an MBA from Stanford.  He has been a partner in a construction, real estate development and property management firm, Tandem Properties, Inc., since his arrival.  He led the campaign for a new 11,000 SF Davis Art Center in 1987 and the new 5,000 SF Pence Gallery in 2003 and supervised construction of both facilities.  Also in 1987 he and his wife Nancy were named Davis’ Citizens of the Year.  He served on the board of the Chamber of Commerce, was president of the Davis Rotary Club and has been a member of the Mondavi Performing Arts Center for eight years.  In the summer of 1999 he rode his bike from San Francisco to NYC following America’s first transcontinental road, the Lincoln Highway.  A year later, he published a book describing his journey entitled, “All the Way to Lincoln Way.”  He is a long time member of the Davis Bike Club and rides over 5,000 miles a year.

Robert St.Cyr, originally from Hopatcong, New Jersey, moved to the Sacramento/Davis area in the late 1980s after a five year stint in the United States Air Force. Robert has an extensive mechanical background as an aircraft mechanic and through work in retail bicycle shops on both coasts. He holds degrees in liberal studies with emphasis in art, a bachelor of science in marketing, and a masters in business administration. In addition, Robert is a graduate of United Bicycle Institute, a certified wheel builder through DT Swiss, and recently took up bicycle frame building through the instruction of master framebuilder Doug Fattic. Robert also participates in bicycle advocacy as a member and certified cycling instructor with the League of American Bicyclists. Currently, Robert is employed as General Manager of the ASUCD Bike Barn, the on-campus bike shop that is known for being the busiest bicycle repair shop in the nation.

David Takemoto-Weerts came to Davis in 1971 as a graduate student at UC Davis after earning a B.A. degree in anthropology at UC Santa Cruz. He became an enthusiastic road cyclist while living in Santa Cruz and started the first campus bike club there. At Davis, David continued to ride and honed his wrenching skills as a student mechanic at the Bike Barn. He later worked in both the wholesale and retail sides of the bicycle industry in the 1970s. David worked as a lobbyist and spokesperson for a grassroots environmental organization, the Mono Lake Committee, in the early 1980s. In 1983, he returned to Davis and worked as manager of the Bike Barn for a short time. David has been employed as the UC Davis bicycle coordinator since 1987 and among other accomplishments has brought in over $2 million in grant money for bicycle infrastructure and the purchase of the Pierce Miller vintage bicycle collection. David is a certified League of American Bicyclists cycling instructor and served on the LAB board of directors from 1997 – 2002. He is the District 3 representative on the board of the California Association of Bicycling Organizations and serves on several other local and regional bicycle committees including the city of Davis Bicycle Advisory Commission.