About Gotryke

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 Tamarawarren.com
Tamara@gotryke.com

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.

Chuck Gibson Hitechfunk.com
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.

Contributors

Graffitist Lee Quinones LeeQuinones.com

Graffitist Lee Quinones is a recent inductee into the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Lee starred in the 80’s Hip-Hop cult classic Wild Style. With studies in the #5 IRTSs in the school performing arts of the MTA system during the 1970s and early 80s, Lee has twice been recognized for VH1’s Hip-Hop Honors and received the Jam Master Jay Award for the Arts. But Lee’s greatest love outside of his art is his history with muscle cars. His current affair is with the 1965 Dodge Coronet code names Nemeis, and his 1983 Dodge Diplomat, “Dippy.” In his history is a 1970 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler GT harnessing an explosive 351 Cleveland, a 1962 Buick Skylark, a 1973 Chevy Nova Super Sport, Lee is engulfed in the East Coast muscle car community as President of the Brooklyn Dodges. His most recent claim to fame is “Only in New York” an art commissioned by Automobile Magazine bringing the best of both of his worlds together. Lee brings a passion for racing roots and all things Muscle.

Beth Ann Bayus is what the automotive types call a “lifer,” spending her entire 22-year career to-date in various communication jobs at the same major Detroit automaker. Starting as a speechwriter for manufacturing executives, she quickly learned to appreciate the work done on the assembly lines and in the boardrooms. Both her grandfather, father and several of her seven siblings also work in the industry, extending the gasoline bloodline. Beyond speechwriting, she also has worked in automotive communications as a writer for her company’s internal television network, the editor of its internal newspaper and as a public relations senior manager for many of the company’s most popular products.

Rounding out her corporate experience and undergrad degree in Technical Writing from Ohio’s Bowling Green State University is a Masters degree in Public Relations and Organizational Communication from Wayne State University in Detroit (her hometown for all the years she’s been around). While an undergrad, she was involved in Detroit’s poetry scene, including reading her “stored-in-a-shoebox-under-the-bed” works on WDET radio and at various campus events.

Besides a love of things automotive and literary, she likes to think she’s an authority on all subjects related to her daughter, a two-year-old going on twenty-two. A late-in-life newcomer to the field of parenthood, she’s finally found her most noble of callings.

Christine Arnefors
European contributor Christine Arnefors recently passed her eco-driving exam. The native Swede has completed three years of internships at a record label and glossy magazines in Lyon, France and Berlin, Germany before settling down in front of heavy economy books at Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. Christine will share her experiences about transportation mostly on the passenger side, of which she is an expert: the art of missing the last bus home, how to evade a German ticket controller, and much more.

Rachelle S. Gauthier
West Coast contributing writer Rachelle S. Gauthier is an avid fan of everything paper, pretty and built with pedals. Working in the magazine realm for over five years, she’s help birth some of your favorite automotive titles including, 0-60 and Rides presents Donk, Box & Bubble. Her passion extends beyond cars and engulfs culture, which she studied at her alma mater, Adelphi University. She left her high-ranking post at RIDES, to launch a women’s lifestyle magazine, Vain. VAIN celebrates the appearance and achievements of young women worldwide and features strangers, icons, celebrities, art, music, film, cars, fashion, home and more. When she isn’t busy conceptualizing stories or creating greatness, she can be found coasting through the San Fernando Valley, test driving cars and working hard at expanding her clientele for her management company, Miss Management Inc. Before you can applaud, visit vainmag.com and missmanagementinc.com

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