SWFBUD

About Me

Alan Snel is director of SWFBUD, a purposeful play on words of the Tampa-area water agency called swiftmud. SWFBUD stands for South West Florida Bicycle United Dealers -- an alliance of eight Tampa Bay area bike stores and one lawyer who have joined forces to grow bicycling as a healthy lifestyle and as an effective mode of transportation. The eight stores and one lawyer are: Bicycle Outfitters in Seminole; Carrollwood Bicycle Emporium; Chainwheel Drive in Clearwater and Palm Harbor; University Bicycle Center in Tampa; Oliver's Cycle Sports in new Tampa; Suncoast Trailside Bicycles in Odessa; The Trek Bicycle Store Tampa Bay - Clearwater; and Just Ride Bicycles in Fish Hawk Ranch. Tampa lawyer Thomas Singletary is also a SWFBUD member. If you would like to join SWFBUD, contact Alan Snel at alansnel@yahoo.com. Alan is a former 25-year newspaper reporter who has worked in metro New York, South Florida, Denver, Seattle and Tampa Bay and co-founded the Seminole Heights Bicycle Club in Tampa.

My Blogs

Team Members

Alan Snel | Bike Stories  
Alan Snel's Bicycle Stories and Other Misadventures on the Road of Life  
SWFBUD: South West Florida Bicycle United Dealers