He moved to Texas in 2012 for a straightforward reason: he was done with winter. He wanted to ride year-round, and he got it. Fourteen years later, he is DORBA's new Merchandise Director, taking the role over from Dirk Hettrich.
Larry has been riding DFW trails since 2013 and a DORBA member for nearly as long. What he still has not worked out is why the entire metroplex shuts down at the first hint of ice in the forecast, given the number of 4x4s he passes on the road. He has no plans to move back north to escape the confusion — down here the ice melts fast, and what it leaves behind is hero dirt.
Friends back in Ohio struggle to believe the number: more than 200 miles of trail across Dallas–Fort Worth, built and kept rideable by DORBA and the other groups who make it possible.
The Glaze household keeps a full stable. Larry rides a Santa Cruz Tallboy and a Trek Fuel+, with a Trek Domane for the road; his wife has a Trek Fuel EXe and a Domane of her own. Between them they have ridden a good share of what the area has to offer. Given the choice, Larry takes the mountain bike nine times out of ten — though every so often a long ride on pavement is exactly what a problem needs.
He and his wife have three children, ages 23 to 27. One is out of school, working, and on their own, and still meets Larry on the trails, in DFW and farther afield. The other two are in college, one of them after four years in the Army.
To pay for all of it, Larry works at the Federal Reserve, leading a large IT team that supports payments processing between US and international financial institutions, supervision and regulation efforts monitoring the US banking industry, and economic research for the Board of Governors. He would like it noted that he has nothing to do with setting interest rates.
More than a decade a member, he is new to DORBA's volunteer army — and glad to be in it, with a hand in making sure everyone in DFW has access to awesome trails.
Welcome, Larry.
