Board of Directors

Paul Buchanan (He/Him, They/Them) – Board Chair

Paul’s personal mantra is that Bikes are Life.  They are a car free person who started their life’s work as a community advocate, activist and organizer since 2008, worked in the Bicycle industry since 2010 and started serving on the CCC board in April of 2024.  Paul understands the freedom that the bicycle endows to all people from toddlers to the elderly to be able to move through the world unencumbered by a 4000lb steel box that can only come with tens of thousands of dollars of debt and decades of costly parts and maintenance. There’s nothing that brings him more joy than knowing how the CCC shop and programs start the youth of Portland on the road of life on a bike and keep the rest of Portland rolling.

Jim Peters (He/Him) – Treasurer

Kiel Johnson (He/Him)

Kiel (pronounced “Kyle”) is a passionate advocate for bicycling and sustainable transportation in Portland. In 2010, he spearheaded the first bike train (now known as the bike bus) in the city, organizing bike trains at 22 different schools and bringing this initiative into the national spotlight. In 2012, he purchased an old camper trailer and began repairing bicycles by the aerial tram. Inspired by a trip to the Netherlands, he combined the concepts of a bicycle valet and repair shop, launching Go By Bike. Over the years, Go By Bike has become a significant part of the community, parking over 700,000 bicycles and averaging 300 bicycles parked daily, making the aerial tram the most biked-to destination in North America.
Kiel is also dedicated to advocating for better bicycling infrastructure, serving on the board of BikeLoud PDX for the past six years.

Zack Reinhardt (He/Him)

Growing up in small-town West Virginia, Zack learned the freedom that was accessible via bicycle at a young age. Between riding to elementary school and cross-town expeditions, the bike was the ultimate tool to access community. Years later, while attending Temple University in Philadelphia, the bicycle turned to a means of self-expression, competition, and even as a source of income while working bike delivery jobs, competing in alley cat races, and building custom bikes for friends. As a volunteer at Philadelphia’s “Bike Church,” he learned that bike-centric education was critical in community building and saw firsthand the importance of helping others access the same privileges he was afforded as a child. Since moving Westward in 2014, Zack has worked in variety of bike-adjacent roles including those at campus bike-share programs, as a cycle touring guide and bike fleet manager, and in product manufacturing at Rolf Prima and Xtracycle. Relocating to Portland in 2019, he found a home at Splendid Cycles where cargo bikes, accessible transportation, and helping people reduce their car dependency became his focus. In his free time, Zack enjoys playing music, eating copious amounts pizza, and spending time (sometimes on the bike) with his beloved pets.

Ginger Clarke (She/Her)

Ginger is a lifelong advocate for multimodal transit. By growing up all over the United States, she saw how car reliant infrastructure harmed everyone, made cities feel unwelcome, and kept us seperated in our own communities. In 2020, she fully gave up car ownership in favor of walking and public transit, but biking felt like it had too many barriers to get started, between cost, health, safety, fear of bike theft, and more. Once she got started with the help of a friend, all the barriers felt insignificant and she realized, more people would love to bike and benefit from biking if only they got that little bit of help to get started. She believes that the Community Cycling Center is that place for so many people and is providing her full support to assist in any way she can to help break down those barriers to biking.

Curtis Milander (He/Him)

Growing up outside Morgan Hill, California, Curtis discovered early that a bicycle provided freedom and access to friends and work. His second-hand bike became his ticket to independence, carrying him countless miles. Teaching himself maintenance from “the big book of bicycle maintenance,” he launched a lifelong connection to cycling that has shaped both his personal life and career.

His professional journey in the cycling industry began at South Valley Bikes during college, leading to roles at Blackburn Designs and Bell Sports in customer service, sales, and product management. During his 27 years at Nike, Curtis led product management for sunglasses and watches, developing cycling-specific products for the Nike Cycling brand. He currently works as a change consultant.

Curtis picked up mountain biking in the mid-80s and started racing cyclocross in the mid-90s, drawn to the community of people passionate about cycling. He moved to Portland in 1997 specifically for its bike culture, joining the Cross Crusade that same year. At 16, he told a riding buddy he hoped to bike for the rest of his life—a promise he’s kept through decades of mountain biking, gravel riding, and bike camping. Some of his closest friendships have been forged on two wheels. For years, Curtis has been a regular at the Community Cycling Center’s Holiday Bike Drive, restoring bikes for families. Joining the board felt like a natural way to give back to cycling some of what it’s given him—whether that’s commuting by e-bike, staying fit, or building community one conversation and one bike at a time.