Newbies!

Folks, meet the latest editions to our CSC family!  Allow me to introduce you to Ryan Sarancha (on the left) and Richard Cota (on the right)…

Let me tell you a bit about Richard first.   Richard is a good guy and I’m here to tell you, he’s a mechanical and electrical genius.   I met Richard when he recently joined the CSC team, and I am already mightily impressed.

We’ve had a lot of positive comments all over the Internet about our online maintenance tutorials, and some folks have even gone as far as to thank Steve and me.   Guys (and I use the term “guys” in a non-gender-specific sense), I’m just the scribe and the button-pusher.  All of what you’ve seen in the maintenance tutorials comes from Richard…he’s the guy who walked me through what he was doing and explained everything along the way.

Richard is a California native who has been around high performance motorcycles and cars his entire life.   Like many of us, he started wrenching and riding as a youngster.   He’s a Honda, Ford, and Chrysler certified technician, and he holds similar credentials from Bosch for European vehicles.  Richard has been a chief mechanic for Baja race teams, he’s the crew chief for an NHRA top fuel dragster, he ran his own shop (R&R Cycles) for 18 years, and he worked with Trinity Racing developing off-road performance products.  Folks, Richard knows his stuff and he knows it well.   We’re lucky to have him on the CSC team.

Ryan Sarancha is a guy I’ve known for a while…about 10 years, actually.   He’s the newest addition to the CSC sales team with an encyclopedic knowledge of motorcycles.

I first met Ryan at a cycle shop when I needed tires, and he impressed me immediately.  Ryan is low key, articulate, he knows his stuff, he’s not pushy, and he always took the time I needed to clearly explain to me different products’ advantages and disadvantages.  Over the next 10 years, I bought jackets, batteries, tires, air filters, and a bunch of other things from Ryan, and I picked up a lot of free advice in the process.   I’ll take a minute to brag here:  When Steve said he needed more people, Ryan was the very first person I thought of, and I was the guy who introduced him to the boss.

Ryan is one of us; he’s been a motorcycle enthusiast for most of his life.  What I especially like about Ryan is that he’s the real deal.   A few years ago, he bought a KLR and proceeded to fully set it up for a ride up to (get this) the Arctic Circle in Alaska.   Wow, a real bucket list trip and a real adventure rider!   Ryan explained to me that the capstone of that trip was a 23-hour Iron Butt ride from Seattle to Los Angeles.   I don’t know about that being the capstone…Ryan told me about a close encounter with a bear that sounded pretty exciting!  Whether racing motocross, adventure touring, cutting laps at Willow Springs, or commuting to work, Ryan takes every opportunity to get on a motorcycle.   Like all of us, he’s looking forward to his next adventure on a CSC RX3.