How a teenage mountain biker patented his tire plug stash tool

Sam Garrett is a teenage mountain biker and inventor living in Rapid City, South Dakota. He was recently awarded a design patent for a tubeless tire plug tool that fits inside a standard mountain bike thru axle. How did you get into mountain biking? When did you start wrenching on your own bike? Why did you decide to create your own tubeless tire plug tool? What did you think you could improve…