The country’s largest Indian Tribe, the Navajo Nation, spreads across a huge swath of the Southwest. It’s roughly the size of West Virginia, with a population of over 250,000.
But until recently, the area didn’t have a single bike shop.
“It’s a tough situation,” said Scott Nydam, a former professional cyclist. “These kids are in a really tough spot.”
In 2014, Nydam and his family moved to Gallup, New Mexico, a border town at the edge of the Navajo reservation. While his wife worked as the lead midwife for the tribe, Nydam — who nearly died in a bike accident toward the end of his cycling career — was free to build a new life.
As he saw the lack of resources available to Navajo kids, Nydam found another purpose. He turned his Gallup coffee shop, the Silver Stallion, into a nonprofit focused on getting more Navajo youth on bicycles. Since 2018, the group has established after-school programs and racing teams, and repaired more than 1,400 bikes.
Now, cycling brand Sportful has released a limited run of jerseys to kick this burgeoning nonprofit into a higher gear.

Sportful x Silver Stallion Jerseys
When cyclist Yuri Hauswald saw the work that Nydam was doing in Gallup, he knew he had to help. As the athlete manager for GU Energy Labs and a generally well-connected guy in the cycling world, Hauswald conceived of a jersey collaboration to funnel more money toward Silver Stallion’s Navajo biking programs.
“I’ve been super impressed with what he’s created down there,” Hauswald said. “This nonprofit is a really powerful testament to what the bike can do for kids and adults.”
So Hauswald began putting the pieces together. For the jersey design, he reached out to Taro Takizawa, a Japanese artist who Hauswald met during a gravel race in Kansas last year. Takizawa’s work blends traditional Japanese printmaking and textiles with contemporary art designs.

Silver Stallion ‘In The Dirt’
