Mike Ferrentino
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Mike Ferrentino is a mountain bike (MTB) journalist.
[edit] Beginnings and career
He was born in California and raised in New Zealand.
In 1994, Ferrentino began writing a column for a new glossy mountain bike magazine that the publishers of Surfer were putting together called BIKE. This column was called The Grimy Handshake, a reference to the column's bike-mechanic point of view and he came to be known as BIKE's "random juggernaut".
In 2005, with the departure of editor Ron Ige, Mike Ferrentino became the Editor in Chief of BIKE magazine. He also was guest editor for an issue of the UK MTB magazine Singletrack in 2005. In November 2006 Ferrentino stepped down from the editor role at Bike magazine. He has a new marketing role at Santa Cruz bikes, and continues writing his Grimy Handshake column for Bike magazine, as well as a new regular column for Singletrack magazine.[1]
