“From Avocation To Vocation: How I Turned My Hobby Into A Career” With Jeff Wills of REGGIE
An interview with Phil La Duke
…Making mistakes are a big part of the learning curve. They say that entrepreneurs jump off the cliff and they figure out how to make the parachute on the way down. So, in the beginning, I was trying to prove the theory for a better pedal system for mountain biking with not a lick of professional assistance. I spent about three weeks building a makeshift pedal system in my workshop and now it was time for testing that theory. Went to my favorite local mountain bike trails on a Saturday, which means there was a bunch of weekend warriors that day to ride those beloved trails as well. Got on the bike started to roll toward the trails and on about the fifth or sixth revolution the right pedal exploded and I went OTB (over the bars) and I did not even make it…
