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GregOverman(right) talks to a customer in the Bike Coop in Albuquerque, N.M on November 22, 2010. Overman has been working on bikes since 1973. He is one of the oldest bike shop owner in Albuquerque.

Backstage: Bike Coop

Greg Overman, right, took over the Bike Coop on Central Avenue in 1998. He dropped out of New Mexico State University in 1972 because of financial problems. He was studying music at the time, and he worked in a bike shop in Las Cruces. He said he hadn’t planned on being a life-long bike mechanic.

“But doing what you enjoy is quite a privilege,” Overman said. “Especially if that’s your job and you get to do what you enjoy.”
After moving to Albuquerque in 1973, he kept working on bikes in different shops around town. He said his mother taught him how to fix things.

“When I was a little kid, I liked taking things apart and not always putting them together,” he said. “My mother made it clear to me that if I was gonna do that I have to learn how to put it back together, so it will work. And that’s how I started it.”

“Life is short. All I have to do is enjoy as much as I can,” he said.

Editor’s Note: Backstage is a semi-monthly, behind-the-scenes photo column by photo editor
Junfu Han. It peers into people’s personal and professional lives.

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