Shimon Schocken
I enjoy planning and leading mountain biking adventures. I ride with three groups, described below.
The Kidz: is a mountain biking club that I started in a correction facility in 2007. It is still going strong, once a week, rain or shine. I shot this movie with a GoPro camera mounted on my handlebar. I gave a TED Talk about this project, and wrote a short story about one of these rides.
The Geriz: This album is from a typical ride with my Geriatric Riders group, a hardened team of 65+ year olds who did more than a thousand such full-day trips together. The photographs are by my friend and fellow rider Rafael Rabinovitz. I wrote a book about the Geriz adventures. The book became so popular that it is now out of press.
The Leaderz: is a group of executives and bikers who ride with me roughly once a month, as part of a course called Leadership at Large. I started this executive education course at in 2010, and since then ran it seven times together with my fellow rider and management consultant Ofer Levi.
My last significant biking trip (Deep South, Israel, November 2021)