Brandon Gillard

Brandon Gillard, manager of Kennebunkport Bicycle Company, says, “mountain biking has been my life since I was ten years old.” Brandon’s parents used to playfully indulge his obsession, assuming that it wasn’t the kind of passion that becomes a career. After college, Gillard opened a bike shop with his family, and the next thing his parents knew, their obsessed son was inviting them to the Oval Office to meet his friend and biking buddy, then-president George W. Bush.

Working with the Kennebunkport Conservation Trust, for the past three years, Brandon and his friends have put in hundreds, possibly even thousands, of hours (they are having too much fun to count) into constructing seven miles of trails and reclaiming three miles of old fire roads.  Brandon was featured in the Maine Magazine article, On the Presidential Trail.