Vince Attree

Name:   Vince
Home Planet:    Planet Home
Likes:  Leaving the toilet seat up. Long evening rides in summer
Dislikes: Boyfriends helping girlfriends buy bikes
Beer:   Molson Canadian, eh!
Aim:    To change the national sport of Australia to ice hockey
Current Rides: 
Road: Merida Evo Team Carbon/SRAM Red
MTB: Merida Target 8
Commute: Vintage titanium fixed gear

Born and raised in Saskatchewan , Canada , Vince immigrated to Australia in January 2001. A rider for the past 22 years, he has seen many changes take place in the industry. His riding career began on the flat plains of Canada road racing, pushing into constant prairie headwinds. Moving to Banff , Alberta in the early 90's, he suddenly had to learn to climb. With MTB racing becoming increasing popular, he switched to XC racing for a few seasons before finishing up with a dabble in cyclocross racing.

No longer able to devote time to racing and the training involved, Vince does keep himself in enough tune to keep up with the bunches along the bay or the occasional off road ride. He can be found riding pretty much anything, anywhere, with anybody. His favorite is most probably just a spin down the beach with his wife Nina with a stop at the coffee shop.

At St. Kilda Cycles, Vince manages the workshop and sales. A proficient mechanic, brilliant on product knowledge, Vince will always give helpful advice on riding and maintaining your bike. He has a straightforward approach to bicycle maintenance, relying on years of experience to provide the customer with the best solution. His riding experience will also help you choose which bike and equipment is best suited for your needs, and suggest alternatives whenever possible.

Vince also heads up Saints Fabrication, the manufacturing arm of St. Kilda Cycles. If you are looking for a steel or carbon fiber frame, ask him any question you like. All frames are custom designed and built by him. Heavy touring bikes, commuters, MTB XC and road frames can all be constructed using a variety of materials.

Pete Craig

Name: Pete
Home Planet: Beechworth, Vic
Likes: Mountain biking, Utes, Meat Pies and AC/DC
Dislikes: Pumpkin
Favourite beer:  Carlton…naturally
Aim: Make sure people pick up their repairs!!
Current rides:
• Road: Eddy Merckx super corsa, Motorola
• MTB:  Avanti Barracuda (sorry)
• Street:  Avanti Derelict

Pete was born with a rare and debilitating condition called Allenwrenchous. Where instead of having fleshy fingers on his hands, there was a set of harden steel allen keys. At the age of 2, Pete had corrective surgery to in order to be able to lead a normal life with fleshy fingers. At the age of 7, Pete realized that he wasn’t like any other children and ran away from home to live in a red Sidchrome tool chest where he soon became “LORD OF THE TOOLS”. In the year 2000 he was discover and tamed by a gypsy bike mechanic who bestowed the secrets of all things bicycle.
Pete now has accepted his fleshy fingers and lives the a life of a true Aussie Bogan

Stephanie Green

Name:  Steph
Home Planet:  Planet Neutral “Switzerland”
Likes: Travelling and Yodelling
Dislikes:  Cold weather
Favorite Beer: I dont like beer...I DRINK COUGAR!
Aim: To pronounce “V” and “W” correctly
Bike: Electra Amsterdam

I was born and raised in beautiful Switzerland; where the mountains are white and the grass is green.

People often ask me why i became a bike mechanic? They say “that’s a strange job for a girl”.       Well...my dad always had strange ideas for my carreer. In the end i decided to be a bike mechanic and began my apprenticeship when i was 16. After 3 years (yes 3 years) I completed it and began to work in a few bikestores in switzerland.
During the cold winter months i travelled alot of countries including Australia. Ive always had a desire to return to the land down under and that’s why im here. Ive been working for St.Kilda Cycles since a year,and enjoy being a member of the team.
I try to intergrate myself into the Australian culture, so i eat vegimite for breakfast, listen to AC/DC during work, eat my chicken-parma for dinner and watch “The Castle”.

Ben Churven

Home Planet: Sydney I'm afraid

Likes: Motorbikes, my bogan ute, playin my geeytar

Dislikes: Tram tracks in the wet! (I have scars to prove it) Favourite beer: Coopers Pale Ale
Aim: To be the best me I can be

Current rides:

Road: Something tasty soon....

MTB: Vintage Fisher Procaliber
Commuter: Old Peugot roady

I love all things 2 wheeled, must be to do with leaning into those corners. In my old age I've discovered that rather than just being the "surly" bike mechanic, I actually really enjoy helping people as well as just fixing bikes.