Age: 31

Background: Lives in Athens with his wife, Atira Parker. He works as a technician at Global Cooling and in his spare time is an avid cyclist. He also repairs old bicycles.

Passion for Cycling: Boyle started mountain biking when he graduated from high school. After moving to Athens in 1998 he began work as a mechanic at a local bike shop and immediately hit the trails. In 2000, he won second place in the West Virginia Mountain Bike Association Point Series in the single-speed class.

Trash into Treasure: Boyle transformed into an artist when his former boss at a landscaping business asked him to build something for vine-like flowers to crawl up. "I wanted to make something as much like a plant as possible," Boyle says, "but make it out of metal." Turning to his love of biking, he began constructing his bicycle flowers out of old bike remnants.

Planting Seeds: Boyle's 3-foot-tall   flowers have sprung up all across Athens County. He has created about a dozen flowers since his idea blossomed last year. They greet the locals on the main street that runs through the town and at ReUse Industries, a company that also seeks new uses for unwanted materials. "I think it's great that it is junk that people actually want again," he says of the flowers. He sells his work for about $150 apiece and says people order them faster than he can make them.

Boyle's 3-foot-tall   flowers have sprung up all across Athens County. He has created about a dozen flowers since his idea blossomed last year. They greet the locals on the main street that runs through the town and at ReUse Industries, a company that also seeks new uses for unwanted materials. "I think it's great that it is junk that people actually want again," he says of the flowers. He sells his work for about $150 apiece and says people order them faster than he can make them.

Continuing to Bloom: Boyle hopes to spend more time on his flowers. "This all happened on its own," he says. "I just want to keep letting it go. Keep working on it."