UNBOUND Gravel

Johnathon was born and raised in Southeast Kansas, and now lives in Olathe, KS, after attending Washburn University and completing his residency in Denver, CO. He is a father of Raye and husband to wife, Kaitlin.

Biking has become his passion over the past 15 years. Jonathon has taken on extreme challenges, such as the Triple Bypass, a 115-mile ride across three mountains in one day. Since moving back to Kansas, he has joined a cycling club in Lawrence, and has been dipping his toes into various racing prospectives.

During Johnathon’s residency and career as a physician in the Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation specialty, he has worked with numerous transplant recipients. This has given him insight into the worries, struggles, and triumphs recipients go through during their transplant recovery. Jonathan is aware of the need for organ donors and is proud to raise awareness for organ, eye, and tissue donation as he takes on the challenge of UNBOUND Gravel.

Stephen has lived in the Roaring Fork Valley since 2000, and works for Shamrock Foods Company, whose trucks can regularly be seen going up and down Highway 82.

Stephen has been married to his wife Jessica for eight years, and has helped raise her daughter, Kloe. In his free time, he enjoys skiing, snowboarding, fly fishing, hiking, and biking. Gravel biking has become a hobby for Stephen over the last year after attending SBT GRVL in Steamboat Springs to support a friend.

Stephen has supported CKF for years, competing in numerous Summit for Life events, and is excited to become a CKF Bike team member and spread the word about organ, eye, and tissue donation.

Troy has been cycling for 40 years, and he returned to the bike in earnest in 2023. This was the same year he discovered gravel riding. Suddenly, the dirt roads that surrounded his family farm in Kansas became the perfect practice ground, and Troy began grinding the gravel.

Troy is thrilled to have an opportunity to ride his first UNBOUND, and represent a great cause while doing it.

Troy is ready to support the mission of organ, eye, and tissue donation and educate those in his community about the importance of registering to give the gift of life.

Zachary is a living kidney donor who donated in 2008 when he was a physicians assistant student. He was the first altruistic donor in South Carolina. He had a grandmother who passed from renal failure and had Donate Life sponsored triathlons in South Carolina so knew of the need of kidney donation. As a student at the Medical University of South Carolina, he shadowed a transplant surgery and decided that day to donate.

Zachary has always maintained a healthy life but this became a huge focus for him after his transplant in 2008. He took on and finished the Leadville 100 MTB in 2023 with CKF and this year is back with the team to complete the UNBOUND Gravel 100!

Nick was born in Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada and received his civil engineering degree from the University of Waterloo in 1987. He started cycling as a child where he collected discarded bikes from his neighbourhood and built many modified bikes to ride around the neighbourhood. After many years off the bike he started riding again in the late 90’s to introduce his children to the sport. His love for cycling continues to this day where he rides all types of bikes including road, gravel, mountain and fat-bike.

Nick was touched by Chris' story when he read it on the website. He can recall hearing his story while watching the 2002 Winter Olympics on television. Recently, he lost a cousin to illness because he was not able to find a donor. The challenge of riding in the world's premier gravel event on behalf of this important charity brings with it an amazing personal challenge.