The Crew
Spencer Burns – operations manager
Yet another East Coast transplant in Colorado. I grew up in Northern Virginia and went to college in southwest Virginia where my passion for the outdoors truly blossomed. I’ve been riding bikes all my life and started mountain biking as a teenager. I dove hard into riding when I moved to Colorado about 4 years ago. When the trails are too white, I get on my skis and slide down hills (and sometimes up!).
Bikes: Giant Trance 29 Advanced (They got me a new bike!), Bianchi Infinito CV, and Bridgestone T700 roadie
STEPHANIE EDMAN – LEAD SALES MANAGER
Recently relocated from Oregon I began cycling as a commuter 25 years ago to reduce my carbon footprint. I found and fostered a passion for road cycling and cycle touring in the early aughts and then fell in love with mountain biking which eventually led me to Colorado.
Bikes: 2018 Trance Advance 27.5, a steel custom Sweetpea 650b touring bike with couplers named Buttercup, Big Blue an 8speed belt drive Globe city bike, a 2000 Gary Klein Q pro carbon team, the newest addition is a 1990's era Kona Humuhumunukunukuapua'a, N+1 coming soon...
Davide Giardini
Marketing & COMMUNITY Manager
Davide Giardini is our Marketing Manager. He is originally from the Italian Dolomites. He moved to the USA over 10 years ago to attend college, and moved to Boulder 6 years ago to pursue an MBA and a career as a professional triathlete.
Competitive sports have always been ingrained in Davide's life: he won an Italian national title and a New England regional title in alpine skiing, competed in a freestyle windsurfing world-cup event in the Canary Islands, swam for the college team in Rhode Island, competed on the SUP Surf World Tour trials in Hawaii, and for the past 4 years has been racing IRONMAN triathlons professionally. His pro career highlights include: 2x pro wins, 11x podiums, and 1x World Championship top 10 representing Team USA.
Jaime Jacoby
Sales Associate
Jaime is originally from Gettysburg, PA via New York City. She almost became a politician, but later decided she'd rather ride bikes in Colorado.
Likes: Pina Coladas and walks in the rain. Her favorite place to ride a bike is Boulder County USA.
Dislikes: None
Bikes: Liv Avail, Ibis Ripmo AF, Ibis Hakka, an old Italian steel road bike, and a steel 29er mountain bike.
TANNER PUTT
Sales Associate
Born in Breckenridge, Colorado and raised in Park City, Utah, Tanner and his three brothers grew up riding bikes. Tanner took his love for cycling to the next level and turned professional in 2012 when he signed with BMC-Hincapie and competed in Europe on the United States U23 National Team.
With two back-to-back national championships under his belt, Tanner joined the United Healthcare Pro Cycling Team where he competed in internationally renowned races like Paris Roubaix, Il Lombardia, and multiple editions of the Tour of California. Over the course of his time with UHC and during his final professional season with the Arapahoe Hincapie team in 2019, Tanner mastered the ins and outs of training, racing, and how to balance life as a young adult and competitive athlete.
It was due to injuries that Tanner decided to take a step back from the pro ranks, but he is eager to use the lessons learned over eight year of competitive racing to support the growth of other athletes and help foster the next generation of cyclists. He strongly believes in a well-rounded and balanced training regime, as well as being proactive about health and wellness. To him, health is the greatest investment an athlete can make.
Tanner is a USA Cycling Level 3 Certified Coach.
alli powers – the tune up Bar manager
I'm Vermont born but raised in the south where I felt a passion for food ignite! With almost 15 years experience in a variety of restaurants as a Chef and General Manager, I'm stoked to join the Boulder community at the Tune Up!
Likes: dogs, running, anything with cheese
Dislikes: lukewarm coffee, sticky floors, school lunches
Bike: a Sledgehammer I take off sweet jumps
CHRISTOPH CIKRAJI
BIKE TECHNICIAN
Growing up between the Midwest and Durango, CO, Christoph has loved riding bikes, running, hiking, and being outside in on the trails from an early age.
With the help and encouragement of the Durango Cycling community, he began Cross Country Mountain bike racing and eventually settled into Enduro racing.
He competes in Enduro races both with the CU Cycling Team and the Commencal Co-Factory Racing Team while concurrently finishing his undergraduate degree in Astrophysics at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Christoph plans to (quite literally) shoot for the stars with his future, and also do a ton of mountain biking on his way there.
