Rich Hirsch's new company, Stranger Bikes, was bound to have a good start with loyal local riders and previous support from his Lotek endeavors. Riders are literally jumping ship to swim over to the island of Stranger. That was an awful metaphor type thing, let's get to the gritty...

Caleb Quanbeck, whom I believe rode for Subrosa, is now riding for Stranger. Rich did a lot for Caleb's career so this isn't so much surprising. He is still riding for Shadow as far as I know though. Same thing with Wolfman and jesse Whaley. Wolfman left Macneil for Stranger, well no official word but what do you expect, so he may be scrumming for parts to put on his Stranger frame. Jesse Whaley left rather new sponsor Verde Bikes for Stranger and will probably also be scrumming for parts. Both of these riders, however, are loyal local dudes who stick by those they know best and I respect that.



Also on the Stranger team is Shawn Mcintosh. He is riding for Coalition as well. same goes for David Grant who is on Stranger and Coalition. Craig Passero is the last rider I know of on Stranger who I believe will also be sporting the parts sponsor OSS, The Come Up's Adam Grandmaison's new company. I think Stranger riders without parts sponsors will be hooked up by OSS, if they'd like. I believe Rich helped Adam out in the process of putting together OSS so there are close ties there.

All in all, Stranger looks to be off to a good start and we can't wait to see the products and the website and the web videos to come. Until then, check out this video of the nose manual master... Caleb Quanbeck.