Pat and Allan, Solfun's founders and Moab tour guides extraordinaire, took their first Moab vacation as backpackers in the Needles, falling in love with Moab's mystical, unique and ethereal surroundings. They discovered the world-class Moab bike trails more than 20 years ago, and never looked back. Pat and Allan left their nine-to five jobs to start up Solfun Mountain Bike Adventures, leading Moab bike tours, eight years ago. The sport of mountain biking has provided many powerful life experiences and creating Solfun has been their way of sharing and giving back to the sport.
Allan Poertner – Solfun Founder & Moab Bike Tour Expert
Few people know Moab trails better than Denver native, Allan Poertner, riding hard in Moab since 1988, founding Solfun with his wife, Pat, in 2002. In on the Moab bike tour business since its inception, he's developed unique and effective techniques to teach mountain bike riding. His style of communicating conveys his passion for bringing people together with his loves of Moab, mountain biking, and having the maximum fun life can offer. He adores his lovely wife and partner, Pat, and their son, Mark. When Allan's not planning or leading Moab bike tours he enjoys art, biographies, ripping on his snowboard in the off-season, and he enjoys a cold bevy after a long day on one of Solfun's Moab bike tours. Allan is a Moab gem who lives to ride, rides to live.
Heidi Rentz - Solfun Sales/Marketing Manager & Moab Bike Tour Guide
Heidi finds marketing and selling mountain bike tours easy because she loves what she does. She's one heck of a mountain biker and an awesome Moab tour guide. Heidi's smile is contagious and her enthusiastic personality suits the lifestyle perfectly. Her nickname is "The Unit," because she is a unit of pure power on a mountain bike. Besides leading bike tours, Heidi is a Wilderness EMT, avid skier, artist, passionate triathlete, marathon champ and dog lover. She will keep your spirits soaring as you ride and coach you to improve your mountain biking skills while you challenge
Steve Langello - Solfun Bike Tour Guide
Steve Langello is an ace mountain bike mechanic (20 year's worth), can ride like the wind and talks bikes, mountain bikes and bike handling with a passion. He and Brian keep our mountain bikes in top shape and Steve assures you are a better rider when you spend time with him on a Solfun Moab bike tour. He knows Moab's history, geology and all of the interesting stuff that makes you feel more at home around Moab, right off the bat. You'll like Steve and you'll ask him to lead your next Moab bike tour.
Patricia "Pat" Poertner - Solfun Founder & Moab Bike Tour Expert
Pat is the detail guru behind Solfun's Moab bike tour business. She rips up Moab's mountain bike trails with zest, energy and skill while teaching you some new riding tricks. And, when you follow her down a mountain, you'll marvel at her riding strength and poise. In the wintertime, Pat applies those same qualities to skiing. Pat will see to it that your Solfun Moab vacation is everything you hoped it would be.
Joe Smith - Solfun Bike Tour Guide
You might say that Joe Smith IV was born to be a Moab bike tour guide - he's been guiding his entire adult life. He earned his stripes as a climbing & canyoneering guide and continues to pursue that along with leading tours on Moab bike trails. Joe is a natural communicator - a charming and sincere guy - who makes it easy to learn and improve your mountain biking skills. Joe knows where he's going, never promises more than he can deliver on one of Solfun's mountain bike tours and he almost always overdelivers! A lot of Joe rubs off on his son, Joseph, who's also a climber, mountain biker and charmer. We know you'll like Joe Smith as much as we do.
Brian "Brooklyn" Vazquez - Solfun Bike Tour Guide
Brian "Brooklyn" Vazquez may be from New York City, but his knowledge of Moab mountain biking is second to none. Before he moved west, he was a trials bike rider, mountain biker, frame designer & builder and lead mechanic for Brooklyn Bike Workz. There's not much Brian doesn't know about mountain bikes in general and Moab mountain biking in specific. But "Brooklyn" wears his knowledge gracefully - he's humble and just a nice guy to be around. Brian helps everyone who rides on one of his Solfun Moab bike tours to ride better. He's the genuine article.
