Tommy Wilkinson riding his modified Tallboy mountain bike

Tommy Wilkinson

Tommy Wilkinson riding his modified Tallboy mountain bike

Tommy Wilkinson

Portrait of Santa Cruz Free Agent rider Tommy Wilkinson

Tommy Wilkinson

Location

Rothbury, Northumberland, England

Bike
Nickname

Tommy

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In his own words, the bigger the likelihood of failure the more Tommy Wilkinson is compelled to poke his head into the fray to see what’s up. A bike rider first foremost, Tommy’s became adept at wearing a chameleon like coat when it comes to other aspects of his life . He’s an award winning photographer and cinematographer, an event organizer, a coffee shop owner, environmental pragmatist (his words!), a Dad and a co-founder of the Not-for-Profit Cheviot Valleys Trail Stewardship .

He was, and still is, a keen racer, having won numerous Scottish DH races and spent two seasons chasing the World Cup dream as a dirt bag privateer. A “little bobble” on a jump in 2013 left Tommy with a fractured skull, brain hemorrhage, a spinal cord contusion, damaged disc and permanently paralyzed right arm. Taking a little while to find his feet again, he now rides a modified Tallboy around his beloved Northumberland, a wildly expansive county in England that Borders Scotland.

A dry sense of humor sometimes sends confusion into the digital ether about what he’s really like, but Tommy is an open book in the real life interactions that he craves.

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