An excerpt from the 2000 Shenandoah Mountain Touring 24 Hours of Snowshoe team profile: Thomas Jenkins, old man freeride A puzzle wrapped in an enigma entwined in a paradox. Who can explain this eternal drive of cycling madness? Determined to overcome his past doping scandals, Thomas is the first rider to make the mandatory stop in the drug tent. With ten years of experience in the expert class Thomas won't be distracted from his goal. Always the anchorman you can bet on him to find his form when his team needs it.

Thomas has had his hands in helping start just about everything mountain bike related that has happen in the Harrisonburg area in the last 10 years from the Shenandoah Mountain Bike Club, most all the funky cycling functions in town, to his current passion the Shenandoah Bicycle Co. which he operates with Tim Richardson.

Here he is carving some tele turns at White Grass over the winter - a new found passion!