With all these oldschool reunions and retro being the new "black".
What happened to Gary Turner?

Does he still work with bikes, or has he moved on or retired?

Cheers

If your talking about GT Gary Turner. He died several years back from what I was told. Not sure what from.

I know Rich Long died

I did not know that Gary had also passsed away.

Yeah, I think you were thinking of Richard Long.

Gary owns Axxis bikes...
http://www.axxisbicycles.com/

Yep, I just made a few calls and found out that he is still in the bike biz.
Last I knew was Alliant. Now it's Alliant/Axxis.


Gary Turner in the words of Mark Twain "Reports of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated"

is axxis still alive?
I thought I remembered Gary working with some sort of long cruiser bikes? (after axxis)

Richard Long, co-founder of GT passed away quite a few years ago, when I was still working for GT. For sure it was a really sad day. If you want to know what happened to GT, when Richard died, so did GT's spirit. Gary built the bikes, but Richard built the company.

Gary is fine and doing well last I heard. He owned Axis bikes and Turner custom cycles (custom cruisers), but quit doing that a while back as well. He spends most of his time running an off road truck team with his son Craig Turner at the wheel. So unless something happened in the last few days, Gary is alive and living the good life. Woody.

Don't remember were I heard that from. I'll just keep my mouth shut. LOL

Gary contacted us a few years ago (maybe 3-4 now...) to see if we could hook him up with a Canadian distributor for his bike line, then I never heard anything about it again until now. I would go by what Woody says above...he has great inside connections as he was working for GT for some time.

I remember going on a tour of the GT factory In California about 1990 or so.. and actually meeting Gary there...wow, what a thrill that was for me to shake his hand at 18 yrs old..he says to me "go out back and see what we have out there" ...I walk out, and there is the HUGE folding halfpipe/trailer they hauled around for shows...geez I couldn't believe my eyes...he seen how thrilled I was to just lay eyes on that ramp, and says to me "go ahead and get up on it and I will take your picture"...uhhhh what?? you want me to actually get on it...ummm... OK !!!
I have a picture of me on top of the ramp, in the GT parking lot, that Gary Turner took !
Cool Stuff!
I will have to dig it out and scan it...give me a few days...

I cannot believe it. Mike Dominquez, Donovan Ritter, Gary Turner, Subwax and Rich Long. I'm going to take to bed, soon....it is all too much.

Yeah, I just heard the Mike D rumor yesterday myself. So I called him and needless to say, he was fine. I wonder how these things get started?