After a four years on Cove Bikes Geoff has made the move to Rocky Mountain Bicycles.  Before that Gully rode for Banshee and had a grassroots deal with Ellsworth.  I caught up with Gully on the phone and got some scoop on the move.

You don't send out resumés when you are Gully's level so I asked him how the ball got rolling. "I was just talking with Wade and he said that Thomas (Vanderham) wasn't going to be on Rocky so after three months of negotiations we got it done." The signing was complicated by the unexpected departure of Jean Poisson who was until recently Rocky's General Manager.   "I was dealing with Jean first and then Wade and Dre (Andreas Hestler) were talking to the president of Procycle directly."  Procycle, which also owns iconic Canadian brand CCM, purchased Rocky Mountain Bicycles in 1997 from company founder Grayson Bain.

---

---

Gully signed a two year deal so we'll be seeing him riding Rocky Bikes until just before the 2010 Winter Olympics at the very least.  Geoff doesn't have bikes yet but he's itching to saddle up.  "I'm going to be running the new flatline, the Slayer SS and the flow DJ.  I've only ridden them around some stores but they feel pretty nice."  These bikes should meet Geoff's diverse needs.  There is a growing list of riders who accel at slopestyle, dirt jumping and park riding and Geoff is solid at all three. What sets him apart is that Gully is also an accomplished and stylish big mountain rider.

When I asked him about goals for the coming season he was quick to rattle off a few.  "Solid movie segments cause last year didn't really work out.  I really want to work with NWD again.  I was supposed to work with Kranked but that won't happen because I switched from SRAM to Marzocchi and Shimano.  I'll also be shooting for CKD 2 and a few other projects coming up.  I'm pretty stoked to do a lot more slopestyle this year.  I was taking it easy last year because I was coming off injury so I'm focussed on giving it all I can this year.  I'll be riding both the Crankworx events (in Whistler and Colorado - Ed) - not Adidas because it's the same date as Crankworx Colorado - and Darren's comp (the Bearclaw Invitational on Vancouver Island). And if I get invited to Qashqais I'll go.  Going to be a busy season. I'm probably going to Cali to just ride in the next month and then off to Utah to shoot for a movie I can't talk about yet."

---

---

Rocky was one of the first companies to sponsor freeriders at all, and they did it in style by hooking up icons Brett Tippie, Richie Schley and of course Wade Simmons.  When you add Vanderham into the equation it's an impressive legacy.  "Tippie and Schley and Wade they're just legends.  All their stuff with the early NSX and Kranked movies really stood out and I was just blown away with all that riding when I was a kid. I'm pretty excited.  I have a lot of work ahead of me to meet the expectations, to fill the shoes of those guys.  It's going to be a lot of work but I'm really looking forward to it."

On top of Rocky, Gulevich has a solid list of supporters.  "I'm going to be sticking with Protec for pads, Giro for helmets and there are a few other things I'm working on this week.  The team sponsors for Rocky Mountain are Shimano WTB, Marzocchi, Mavic Marzocchi and Powerbar."

For some final words Gully showed his class.  "I'd like to thank Cove and SRAM for the support they've given me in the past years.  Without them I couldn't have made it to where I am today."