About

GoTryke is where Culture and Transportation converge. GoTryke is about the vehicular pleasure principle, which translates to design, technology, classic materials,and stunning power in vintage and new automobiles. It’s about consciousness and protecting our planet’s resources. It’s a dissection of the road that stretches from rural America, to busy bustling cities, to thoroughfares around the world. It’s about social responsibility, and sometimes breaking the rules. It’s about the vehicles that take us there and the experiences we have along the way. The Automobile is a medium, a vehicle with function – to move people. GoTryke is about the relationship between design, fashion, art, travel, music, and pop culture reflected in these movements.

GoTryke is that – the beautiful, the quirky, the mythic, the translucent, the grotesque, the behometh, the miniscule, the exotic, the practical, the ordinary, the dreamy, the future. GoTryke is where we’ve been. GoTryke is where are we are now. GoTyrke is where we are going.

Tamara Warren
Editor

Cars are a reflection of culture, says GoTryke.com editor Tamara Warren. Tamara is an automotive writer and cultural critic who hails from the Motor City. Her grandfather toiled on the assembly line at Ford Motor Company during tumultuous Unionization years, her great-uncle was Walter P. Chrysler’s personal driver and her dad worked for Chrysler Corporation for 30 years. Tamara lives in Brooklyn, New York, but spent many years living in downtown Detroit, as a working writer, enthralled by local music and art scene and it’s international impact. The road drew her back to her automotive roots when she accepted an internship at AutoWeek Magazine in 2002. She was soon hooked on car speak, and decided to broaden her horizons. She attended mechanic’s class and a half-dozen high performance driving schools, including Skip Barber, Bob Bondurant and the Formula 2000 Bridgestone Racing Academy.

In addition to Street Savvy, a monthly column she pens in DUB Magazine, she’s written about cars for Forbes Autos, Celebrity Car, Rolling Stone, Vibe, Rides, AutoWeek, Edmunds.com, Shop, Etc., Clear, Roadfly, Automotive Rhythms, Carlist, Automotive News and the Detroit Free Press. Her writing on culture, music and art has appeared in Stuff, Northwest Airlines World Traveler, BlackBook, King, Giant, the Ave, Anthem, WWE, XXL, Juxtapoz, Time Out New York, Clear, Nylon, the Detroit Free Press, Venus, Blow Up (Italy), Remix, Remix (Japan), Res, Xlr8r and YRB. Tamara has interviewed over 100 celebrities about their cars. She is a member of the Author’s Guild and the International Motor Press Association, and she is a jurist for the Annual Lifestyle Vehicle of the year. Currently she is working on a book about cars and culture.
More about Tamara: www.tamarawarren.com

Chuck Gibson
Creative Director

Creative director Chuck Gibson gave up his car to move to New York City, but the Detroit native remembers where he comes from — the Motor City, where cars are always in the horizon. The designing eye and logistical force behind GoTryke draws from his Detroit roots for his design inspiration, where he watched his uncles log countless hours on the line at Ford Motor Company — the nuts and bolts of the car industry. Gibson, a graduate of College of Creative Design in Interactive Design, was influenced by his peers who went on to pursue car design, but the digital world is his preference. He works in the commercial design industry on major corporate accounts, and balances his understanding of design principles with his aesthetic talents at a prominent New York design firm.

He is the founder and director of the design and apparel line Hitechfunk. Gibson is an accomplished music producer of electronic music, releasing Tokem an audio visual production exclusively in Japan summer 2008. Recording for the group Underground Resistance, he has toured and performed for audiences across Europe and Asia. He has worked collaboratively with Puma and the Underground Gallery in Kobe, Japan on art exhibitions.
www.hitechfunk.com

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