Thinking of buying a new bicycle? One of your first choices, and not necessarily an easy one, will be where to shop.
It can be a challenge because there are a myriad of stores that carry two-wheelers, from specialty retailers, to giant department stores, to backyard garage operations. Where you buy, however, has everything to do with what you get. You see, bicycles aren’t like toasters or suitcases. Bikes are shipped in boxes and they must be assembled and tuned.
There are many types, too, and you should never buy until you’ve figured out which is right for you. Measurements and adjustments are required to ensure the frame is the correct size and that the seat and handlebars are properly positioned. And, every new bicycle will need a minor tune-up after several weeks of use.
What’s more, modern road and mountain bikes can travel at high speeds and carry you over demanding terrain where the machine’s materials and construction get tested. A quality two-wheeler, carefully assembled and fit to you, will be the safest, most durable and fun bicycle to ride.
For these reasons, we strongly recommend shopping at a good specialty bicycle store in our area. For instance, we hire competent salespeople and expert mechanics who’ll ensure that you get the right bike and a quality machine. Look for a store that’s clean, has helpful personnel, offers a good selection, and an on-site repair department.
Meet the Staff
Chad Czmowski
Owner/CEO/CFO/ President
Job Duties
Head Bicycle Mechanic, Head of Sales, Oversees all departments within Out. Mot. Corp., Head Honcho.
Bio
Chad graduated with honors and a B.S. of Social Science Education from THE University of North Dakota in 2003. In November 2008, he was elected to the Hutchinson City Council. In 2012, 2016, and 2020 Chad won re-election for his seat in City Council. Chad also is currently sitting on the EDA Board and Parks Board.
In his spare time, he enjoys philanthropy by giving back to the community that has given him so much. Chad enjoys spending time with his wife Betsy and sons, Ben and Charlie. Now that he is a family man, Chad spends countless hours biking with his family, kayaking, canoeing, XC skiing, and fishing with his boys.
Bikes Chad Owns
- Salsa El Mariachi Ti
- Rivendell Atlantis
- Rivendell Romulus
- 1984 Trek 520
- Yuba Mundo Cargo Bike
- Ritchey Commando
- Salsa Deadwood
- Santana Tandem
- Salsa Powderkeg Tandem
- Fuel EX 8
- Bianci San Jose
- GT Talera
- Surly 1×1
- All City Nature Boy Zona
- Salsa Gen 1 Fargo
Craig Juhnke
Best Wheel Builder in Upper Midwest
Job Duties
Wheel Building, Help catch up on repairs when swamped, providing witty banter.
Bio
Craig has 20 years of bike shop experience. He previously ran A1 Bicycle Shop in Hutchinson. In his free time he enjoys being a realtor, rearing his children, and going to the lake. Craig is the current head coach of the Hutchinson High School Cycling Team.
Bikes Craig Owns
- All City Mr. Pink
- Salsa Ti Timberjack
- Santana Tandem
Jim Demeyer
Head Trainee
Job Duties
Learning on the job. Bike Building. Cleaning tuneups.
Bio
Jim is the head of our new retiree employment program. He comes to us after a long, illustrious career at Goebel Fixture Company. Jim is a dedicated family man and enjoys spending time with his grandkids. You can often find him at the lake enjoying his cabin with his wife, Brenda.
Bikes Jim Owns
- Trek Navigator 200
Teagan Young
(Aka: Teags, Ice T)
Job Duties
Bicycle assembly, bicycle repair, brake bleedist, general sales, webmaster.
Bio
Teagan joined the Outdoor Motion team in July of 2020. Teagan is a Senior at the Hutchinson High School. She is very active in academics and participates in math league, Key Club, HOSA, UNIFIED special olympics, and the Young Athletes Special Olympics program. She used to be into gymnastics, on the Hutchinson High School Mountain bike team, and in robotics, but she quit all of those activities. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family, mountain biking, eating chicken, and ripping around in her Mini Cooper. She hopes to one day attend medical school to become a neurosurgeon. Teagan is likely the most intelligent person to have ever worked at the shop. This was made clear when she earned a 32 on her ACT. Teagan has been named Employee of the Month 5 times.
Bikes Teagan Owns
- Trek X-cal 8
- Trek FX 7.2
Clayton Moore
(Aka: Claytonious Maximus)
Job Duties
Dumpster Jockey, bike cleaner, floor sweepist, mechanic trainee.
Bio
Clayton is a sophomore at Hutchinson High School. Outside of his wonderful work at the bike shop he is a high school swimmer, mountain bike racer, and active member of FFA. Clayton is a man of many interests that include gardening, fishing, and modifying awkward vehicles that aren’t necessarily cars. Clayton is EXTREMELY kind and helpful and we thoroughly enjoy him despite the fact that he can be a little too squirrelly. Clayton recently earned his Eagle Scout Award for his work with the Boy Scouts of America and we are extremely proud of him #biggestfans. One of our favorite activities as a team is trying to make Clayton laugh during lunch in an effort to make milk spray out of his nose. We have occasionally found success.
Bikes Clayton Owns
- Trek X-cal 9
- Lemond Etape
Calvin Schochenmaier
Shop Monkey
Job Duties: Running the shop when Chad is gone. Servicing side by side recumbents in the parking lot. Sales G.O.A.T
Bio: Calvin is a big dumb-dumb and attends NDSUcks (Chad wrote this and he has to make fun of anything NDSU because he attended the University of North Dakota). He enjoys volunteering with the Boys Scouts of America, visiting aquariums, and building robots for leisure and sometimes sport. As the legend tells, Calvin called down to the bike shop the day he was born to reserve a spot on the dream team that is the Outdoor Motion bike shop crew. If you see Calvin out and about be sure to ask him about the latest in mountain bike axle standards. Chances are he can provide you with the most up to date information available. Calvin enjoys buying very expensive and exotic bicycles and preserving them by hanging them on a hook in his garage. Calvin has bounced in and out of our lives several times over the years, however he never officially files his retirement papers so we welcome him back with open arms.
Bikes Calvin Owns:
All City Electric Queen
Salsa Journeyman
Alumni
Luke Myers
Bike Polo Team Captain/Men’s Tank Top Department Coordinator/Head of the “Getting Rad” Department
Job Duties
Being Indie, bike assembly, bike repair, overall sales, monitors bicycle industry blogs, and replacing tubes in the blink of an eye.
Bio
Luke is a graduate of Hutchinson High School. He attended the University of Manitoba… I mean the University of Wisconsin Stout.. I mean Northland University. He was the captain of the Hutchinson High School Mountain Bike Racing team his senior and junior years. In Luke’s spare time he enjoys collecting vinyl records, doing fixie skids, sipping espressos, and attempting to grow impressive facial hair. Over the years he has also conveyed interest in making coffee outside, and camping via bike or van.
Luke is currently an arborist in Minneapolis, where he resides with his extremely pleasant girlfriend Caroline.
Bikes Luke Owns
- Salsa Timberjack
- Early 2000’s Rock Lobster Mountain Bike
- 1959 Schwinn Tornado
Trevor Roen aka “Trevronious Maximus, Franklin the Turtle, and Snakes”
Shop Monkey
Job Duties
Head shop monkey. Service tech G.O.A.T.
Bio
Trevor is a graduate of the University of Minnesota Duluth. Upon graduation, he decided to grow a glorious ponytail. He raced on the Hutchinson High School Mountain Bike Team and is much faster than he looks. During his senior year he was the 5th fastest high school mountain biker in the state of Minnesota. He claims he is fast due to the fact that he enjoys a “Quarter Chicken Dark” from the Hutch Cafe before each and every one of his races. His hobbies include taking selfies with Luke Myers, grillin’ weenies and listening to Michael Jackson songs. When Trevor was in middle school he was part of a Unicycle club. Trevor also enjoys skiing, listening to the B-52’s (a band that includes one of his distant relatives), and doing karate. Trevor is unique in the fact that he quit and came back three separate times and we were delighted to have him back each time he bounced back into our lives. He is currently an electrical engineer for Emerson Engineering.
Bikes Trevor Owns
- Crust Scapegoat
- All City Gorilla Monsoon
- All City Log Lady
- Salsa Ti Timberjack
Brianna Forcier
Shop Girl 4.0
Bio: Brianna graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in Geographical Information System Technology. Chad says that during the interview process the fact that Brianna attends the U of M was not held against her but, it certainly didn’t improve her chances of getting the job. While in high school Brianna was a mountain bike racer on the Hutchinson High School Mountain Bike Team. Currently, her cycling interests include biking to coffee shops on Minneapolis to buy pumpkin spice lattes, using her road bike to see the countryside, and mountain biking. She enjoys geography and topographical maps.
Brianna currently lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. She just got done living in a van with her boyfriend Jimmy and traveling the United States.
Bikes Brianna Owns: Vintage Columbia Tourist City Bike (From Olden Times/It has a sweet pizza bell) and a Trek Lexa 1.1 road bike
Jamie Risner
Job Duties: Jump-starting a Women’s Advocacy Program, bike repair, bike assembly, and pretty much anything that Chad doesn’t want to do.
Bio: Jamie worked at Outdoor Motion for 3 years. She is edgy by Hutch standards but not by Uptown Minneapolis standards. She is charged with the task of replacing local cycling legend, Mary Gamradt. Outside of the bike shop (is there such a place?) she enjoys things like acro yoga, tree-hugging, slaughtering zombies via her xbox360, Dungeons and Dragons, and a medium steak.
Jamie is currently a massage therapist at Genesis and owns a yoga studio in downtown Hutch.
Bikes Jamie Owns: 1996 Gary Fisher Marlin and a Torker Unicycle (I know what you are thinking, she works at a bike shop and only has two bikes? Take it easy, she just started, alright?)
Josh Schantzen
Head of Skateboard Department
Job Duties: Cleaning the coffee stuff, cleaning bikes, building new bikes.
Bio: Josh worked at Outdoor Motion for 5 years. He is known best for lighting up the room with his beaming smile. Josh is the 3rd best skateboarder in all of Hutch and wears that title proudly. Josh has been named Employee of the Month 5 times.
Josh currently lives in Hutchinson and is a slitter operator at 3M. Josh works out a lot and has really, really, big muscles (especially the pectorals).
Josh’s mom (Sue) is the nicest person in the world.
Bikes Josh Owns: Salsa Woodsmoke, All City Mr. Pink, Salsa Timberjack SS
Mary Gamradt
Assistant Manager
Job Duties: Bicycle Repair, Bicycle Assembly, Most Payroll and Financial Services, Running store in Chad’s absence, Spokes-model, Provide the appropriate amounts of estrogen to curtail excessive levels of testosterone thus gaining gender equality.
Bio: Mary worked at Outdoor Motion for 8 years. She has worked the third most hours behind only Trevor and Chad himself. Some of her awards include 12x Employee of the Month and was also voted the 5th best looking girl in the graduating class of 2008 at Hutchinson High School.
Mary currently lives in Golden Valley and is married to Alex. She has a cute little dog named Walter. Mary is an Emergency Room nurse at HCMC. She thinks that a job in the nursing field will be more rewarding than sticking with the bike industry. Stupid, huh?
Bikes Mary Owns: Trek 7.2 FX aka “Pinky”, Bianchi Eros Donna, Schwinn World Sport, Vintage Ritchey Timbercomp
Sam Lansink
Job Duties
Bicycle assembly, bicycle repair, sales.
Bio
Sam is the tallest person to have ever worked at Outdoor Motion. He stands at a towering 6’4” tall. Sam enjoys youth group activities at his church, ripping around on his Yamaha Zuma scooter, and high jumping. He is an All-Conference High Jump champion and an Intramural Basketball champion. He cruises in his Suburban named “Bessie”, which his dad purchased back in ’03. Sam is currently attending Iowa State University for Mechanical Engineering. We assume he will succeed considering he was a Geography Bee Finalist in 5th Grade and is an Eagle Scout. Sam’s big claim to fame is that his second cousin 3x removed, Eric Sevareid wrote “Canoeing with the Cree”.
Bikes Sam Owns
- Salsa Timberjack
Marshall Julius
Captain Enthusiasm/ Sales Associate
Job Duties: Bringing a positive attitude with him everyday to work, reorganizing bikes on the sales floor, web design accountability partner, general sales and repair, Founder of “The Marshall Plan” which was instituted in the hopes that Marshall when working would take care of all customers so that Chad could continue working on repairs without interruption, provide a comfortable sales environment for customers of all age, gender, race, shape, and size.
Bio: Marshall worked at Outdoor Motion for 3 years. Chad has touted Marshall as the fastest learning shop kid of all time. He also is an 8x Employee of the Month. Marshall enjoys working on and repairing bikes so continue to bring in any repairs you need to be done!
Marshall graduated from South Dakota State University, majoring in Pharmacy. He is now a pharmacist and lives with his wife and 3 little girls. As an SDSU alumni, he closely follows the Jackrabbits. Go Big! Go Blue! Go Jacks!
Bikes Marshall Owns: Trek 3rd District
Lukus Klawitter
Shop Foreman
Job Duties: Making the store spotless, general sales and repair, eating any leftover food at lunchtime.
Bio: Lukus worked at Outdoor Motion for 4 years. He then took 9 years off and came back for the summer of 2019. He ran track collegiately at Minnesota State University-Moorhead. Lukus enjoys spending time outside, be it running or just plain exercising and from time to time has been spotted bike camping, so be on the lookout for Lukus.
Lukus finished his Master’s degree in exercise science at Adams State in Alamosa, CO. He can now be found in Fargo, North Dakota as he is studying for his doctorate degree.
Bikes Lukus Owns: Trek Soho S, Lemond Reno, Trek X-Caliber, Trek T1
Roger Gamradt
Wise Old Bike Shop Guru
Job Duties: Skate Sharpening, talking about the old days, voicing unfounded biases versus modern technology, general sales, and repair.
Bio: Roger worked at Outdoor Motion for 2 years. If you have seen The Mighty Ducks, Roger has been often compared and said to be just like Hans from the movie. Roger is also Mary’s kind, caring, and loving father. Even though Roger doesn’t work at the store on a regular basis, he will still twine your handlebars on special request. The best part of this service it that it is free and comes with an unconditional replacement warranty. If at any time you are not fully satisfied with Roger’s twining job, he will re-do it at no additional cost. This is by far the best value in the entire bicycle industry.
In his free time, Roger enjoys listening to Ham Radio, talking about the good ol’ days, and drinking beer.
Bikes Roger Owns: Rivendell Rambouillet, Surly Long Haul Trucker, Bianchi Grizzly, Schwinn Collegiate 3