18 | september | october 2017CONTRIBUTORS
Six highfliers who helped create this issue
- NICK JAQUEZ
Nick authored this month’s
Wrench Room on page 84,
a touching profile of father/
daughter bike builders George
and Sofi Tsingos, who produce
one-of-a-kind machines from
their home garage in Texas.
A bit of a wrench monkey
himself, the New Mexico native
helped create the “Black
Hills Beast,” an Indian Scout-
based hill climber unveiled
at the 75th annual Sturgis
Motorcycle Rally. - AARON FRANK
For many years as a full-time
Motorcyclist staffer, Aaron
has done just about all there
is to do on two wheels, yet he
remains game for even more.
For this issue, Aaron penned
the overview of the new Star
Venture found on page 48.
Favorite pastimes include—
you guessed it—anything on
two (or even three) wheels, the
quirkier the better. - CARMEN GENTILE
Carmen began his journalism
career in the late 1990s, and
his writing has since been
published in The New York
Times, TIME, Newsweek,
and USA Today. In 2010,
Carmen was wounded by a
rocket-propelled grenade
while reporting in eastern
Afghanistan. His first book,
Kissed by the Taliban, will be
published in March. “Escape
from Mosul” begins on
page 72. - SCOT HARDEN
Scot is an off-road icon, a
champion racer, and motor-
cycle-industry executive
who has served the power-
sports industry through
four decades of work with
Husqvarna, KTM, BMW, and
Zero Motorcycles. Inducted
to the AMA Motorcycle Hall
of Fame in 2008, Harden
is also the president and
founder of Harden Offroad.
The Nevada native wrote this
month’s Megaphone on page
- NISH NALBANDIAN
The first images award-
winning photographer Nish
sold detailed a motorcycle
trip he took from Denver to
the tip of South America.
Published last year, Nish’s first
book, A Whole World Blind,
documents the Syrian civil
war. “It’s hard to look at things
like this,” he admits. “And it
should be.” Nish produced the
photographs that accompany
Carmen Gentile’s Iraq feature. - MICHAEL SHAFFER
Michael is usually photo-
graphing all things four-
wheeled, having started his
professional photography
career shooting for the likes of
Motor Trend and Automobile
magazines. He currently
travels the world for clients
such as Subaru, Mercedes-
Benz, and Ferrari, among
others. We convinced the
DC-based photographer to
add two-wheel subjects to his
repertoire, as he shot the
electric Alta military bike for
Insight on page 46.
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