19 year-old Eli Siegle’s interest in bikes started when he began riding 20 miles a day as a freshman in high school. As his classic 10 speed bike slowly broke down he taught himself how to repair it. He’s leveraged his skill into a full-time position at Blue Heron Bicycles in Eugene. (Alex McDougall/Emerald)

Eli Siegle chats with 20 year Blue Heron Bicycles employee Louis Orsimi about pricing on a repair. Siegle, three high school classmates and a teacher spent 47 days in 2010 biking the Lewis and Clark trail averaging 80-100 miles a day. (Alex McDougall/Emerald)

Louis Orsimi has spent 20 out of his 40 years in the bike repair industry at Blue Heron Bicycles on 13th street a block off UO campus. (Alex McDougall/Emerald)

Eli Siegle jokes with his coworkers about his half-finished bike he started building in June. Siegle went to frame school for two weeks in Portland designing and building a touring bicycle. (Alex McDougall/Emerald)