Hoppers Crossing Bike Shop

Name: Peter Craig
Role: Team Leader
Experience: 20 or so years. You name it I have given it a crack.
What do you love about bikes?: It gets my out of the house.
Expertise: Everything mechanical! Just ask me.
Current Bikes: 2016 Intense Tracer 275c custom. 2001 Avanti Barracuda.
Favourite Ride: The last descent at Mt Buller Epic Trail. It flows and goes and goes.
Email: peter.craig@99bikes.com.au

Name: Simon Christian
Role: Sales Consultant
Customer Service Experience: I started as a Sales Consultant at 99 Bikes Fortitude Valley (Brisbane) in 2009 where I became a Team Leader and then moved on to be Team Leader at 99 Bikes Newmarket. I've worked as a Purchaser for our Victorian Stores and as a Sales Consultant at 99 Bikes Port Melbourne, 99 Bikes Malvern, 99 Bikes Ascot Vale and now at Hoppers Crossing.
Riding Experience: I've ridden road and mountain bikes since I was a kid for fun and fitness. Competed in my first 70.3 Triathlon in 2016 and looking to do more middle to long distance triathlons and move up to Full Ironman.
What do you love about bikes?: Love pushing myself to go further and faster and I love the thinking time and opportunity to unwind on a long ride.
Expertise: Road Bikes
Current Bikes: 2017 Reacto Etap, 2010 Merida HFS 3000, 2013 Merida Warp 5, Pedal Tokyo
Favourite Ride: Great Ocean Road
Email: simon.christian@99bikes.com.au

Name: Tristano Cristofoli
Role: Sales Consultant
Experience: I have worked in a scuba diving shop, as an engineer for Qantas and as a lifeguard. These past jobs have given me a broad spectrum of experience. I am looking forward to transferring my current skills as I take on my next challenge. Growing up I had always ridden bikes but it wasn't until I was 18 that I bought my first proper mountain bike. In no time at all I was hooked, and not just on riding but tinkering and building bikes as well.
Expertise: Mountain Bikes
What do you love about bikes?: I love riding with other people and being able to learn as well as teach skills and technique. I also have a competitive edge, not just against others but also myself. Whether I'm racing cross country or training I enjoy the pain involved in riding to the limits.
Current Bikes: Norco Optic C3, Specialized S-works Epic, Rigid single speed Specialized stumpjumper, Giant xtc.
Favourite Ride: Lake Mountain, Granite Grind.
Email: tristano.cristofoli@99bikes.com.au

Name: Tim Pearce
Role: Sales Consultant
Experience: Adventure Tour Guiding, Tourism and Hospitality, Business
Expertise: Road Cycling and Bike Fits
What do you love about bikes?: The fitness, the freedom of riding and the adventure
Current Bikes: 2016 Merida Reacto Dura Ace. 1990 Pinarello Asolo Dura Ace
Favourite Ride: Descending epic mountains in Tasmania
Email: tim.pearce@99bikes.com.au

Name: Jay Nash
Role: Workshop Manager
Experience: I have worked in bicycle retail since 2006. Found my first bike in a creek in Cairns at 3 years old fixed it up and rode it, been riding ever since.
Expertise: Mechanical.
What do you love about bikes?: I love that bikes will always be there no matter what life throws at you.. like an old friend.
Current Bikes: 2017 Merida Onesixty 7000, 2016 Norco Search A105.
Favourite Ride: Anglesea trails at night with lights.
Email: jay.nash@99bikes.com.au

Name: Juan Gonzalez
Role: Mechanic
Experience: Since I have memories of my childhood I have been riding a bicycle. At the age of five I competed in many BMX tournaments. Then, in my youth I did MTB and Downhill. Nowadays I practice road cycling competing in amateur races. Besides practicing this sport, I have been participating in an active way in some projects that are related to cycling, for example my wife and I have a non-profit organization to promote cycling in children with limited economic resources in Colombia, more specifically in a small town called San Rafael. We currently have ten enrolled children and a coach who supports them. In addition, in Colombia I used to have a casual job in a bicycle workshop as a mechanic assistant and all this knowledge has been applied in the non-profit organization. I consider cycling as my greatest passion. I began my career at 99 Bikes Hoppers Crossing. I been working here since October 2019 first as a bike builder and now as a Mechanic
Expertise: Road Bikes and Mountain bikes
What do you love about bikes?: I love riding with my wife and other friends. I always like to discover new places to ride and enjoy the freedom when I am riding
Current Bikes: Wilier Triestina Zero 7 2016 Full Sram red - Etap and Powe2max. Merida eSpresso 300SE Electric Hybrid 2018
Favourite Ride: "Oriente Antioqueno". Nearby to Medellin there are a lot of beautiful landscape and routes to ride. At 2100 m.a.s.l it's posible to ride more than 150 km in different scenarios and different routes (hills, flat, 16-22 Celsius)
Email: juan.gonzalez@99bikes.com.au

Name: David Rocca
Role: Mechanic
Experience: I have been working in the automotive industry for the last 16 years and have decided that it is time to get back to something i was so passionate about when i was younger, and rekindle my love for riding and working on bikes.
Expertise: BMX has always been my go to.
What do you love about bikes?: I love the freedom that bikes allow you. The ability to get out in nature with the fresh air in your face and the sun on your skin.
Current Bikes: DK BMX Aura.
Favourite Ride: Altona Meadows Skate Park, small but fun with a few dirt jumps to boot.
Email: david.rocca@99bikes.com.au

Name: Jack Hayhoe
Role: Sales Consultant & Mechanic
Experience: I have been involved in Mountain biking racing and riding for around 10 years, after around 5 years of Cross-country riding I discovered gravity and have been slowly making the transition from lycra to moto pants since then. After working in construction, farming, factories and roadworks I decided to have a crack at working in a sector that I have a lot of interest in which led me to 99bikes. I now work here alongside studying aviation.
Expertise: Mountain bikes, Downhill and Enduro
What do you love about bikes?: The feeling of riding and the community of cycling gives me freedom I have only found in one place.
Current Bike: Norco Aurum HSP 2 2019, Norco Sight A1 2019, slightly modernised 70s Malvern star
Favourite Ride: Hard to pick, either Mount Macedon or Mystic Bright
Email: jack.hayhoe@99bikes.com.au