About Dan

Dan Reeves spent fifteen years on unassisted mountain bikes before going electric in 2023. He rode the Yeti SB130 and Santa Cruz Tallboy, raced regional cyclocross in his thirties, and logged thousands of miles on Boulder-area singletrack — Walker Ranch, Heil Valley Ranch, Hall Ranch, Apex, White Ranch — before post-40 recovery time started capping what he could reach in a day.

The switch to e-MTB wasn't an exit from mountain biking. It was an extension of it. The Specialized Turbo Levo is his current daily. Before that, he owned and sold a Trek Rail (found the geometry too XC-focused for his preferences) and built a Bafang BBSHD-converted hardtail for around-town and gravel riding. He hauls bikes in a Toyota Tacoma with a 1Up rack, does week-long bikepacking trips on Colorado Trail sections and in the San Juan Mountains, and pays more attention to motor torque characteristics and range under climbing load than to any lifestyle framing.

The day job is software architect at a mid-size SaaS company — enough engineering fluency to read a motor spec sheet without help, enough distance from the industry to not be a brand advocate.

Ten27 is where that perspective lives in public. Technical evaluations, sourced framing, honest takes on every price tier, no fabricated testing claims.