Bicycle Quarterly's team of experienced riders and qualified writers provide our readers with interesting and well-researched information. These contributors allow us to maintain our high editorial standards. Here are a few of them:

Jan Heine, Editor

Jan has been an avid cyclist since his childhood in Germany. Upon emigrating to the United States, he fulfilled his dream of racing bicycles on the road and in cyclocross for 10 years. Today, Jan prefers randonneuring and long-distance riding. He completed Paris-Brest-Paris in 1999, 2003 and 2007.

Jan studied geography, geology, and mathematics in Germany and at the University of Texas at Austin, before obtaining his Ph.D. from the University of Washington with support from a NASA fellowship. He then worked as a free-lance writer and translator for a number of magazines and companies, before starting Vintage Bicycle Press in 2002. Jan lives in Seattle, Washington, with his family.

Bicycle Times published an interview with Jan Heine in 2009.

Mark Vande Kamp

Mark Vande Kamp writes technical articles, tests bikes and reviews articles for Bicycle Quarterly. Mark has been an avid cyclist since 1989. He started by racing in triathlons and participating in Northwest rides such as the Ride Around Mount Rainier in One Day (RAMROD), and later became a randonneur.

Mark was a general studies major at Central College in Pella, Iowa. He obtained a Ph.D. in social psychology with a minor in statistics at the University of Washington. Today, he conducts research for the National Park Service at the University of Washington's Protected Area Social Research Unit. He lives in Seattle, WA, with his wife and daughter.

Jean-Pierre Pradères

Jean-Pierre is one of our photographers. For more than 25 years, he has been a free-lance photographer specializing in classic motorbikes. His photography has been published in many magazines and books, including the Guggenheim Museum's The Art of the Motorcycle, and our books The Golden Age of Handbuilt Bicycles and The Competition Bicycle.

Jean-Pierre rides and races a 1931 Velocette KTT, but for daily transportation, he uses a 1947 Alex Singer city bike on the streets of Paris. He is an avid cyclotourist, and enjoys riding his classic bikes with his family.

Photo: François Arsène

Raymond Henry

Raymond Henry contributes historic articles and reviews others. As a retired school teacher with a life-long interest in cycling history, Raymond Henry today is a member of the Cultural Heritage Commission of the French Cyclotouring Federation. He has spent decades researching the history of French cycling, and numerous magazine articles, as well as several books, have been the result.

Raymond Henry has been cycling since his childhood. As an avid cyclotourist, he has completed Paris-Brest-Paris, the Tour de France Randonneur and all 9 Diagonals of France. For more than forty years, he has used his bicycles for daily transportation in Avignon/France, where he lives with his wife.

Photo: Jean-Pierre Pradères

Alex Wetmore

Alex Wetmore is a contributor to technical articles. Alex has been cycling and working on bikes since his childhood. He uses his bicycles for his dialy commute and enjoys bicycle camping and rides with friends and family.

Alex obtained a Bachelor's degree in Math and Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1996. He works as a software engineer and lives in Seattle, WA with his wife Christine.

Andreas Oehler

Andreas Oehler is our lighting expert and reviewer of technical articles. He has been riding since age 5, and has been car-free for the last 20 years. He uses bicycles for everyday commuting and vacation travels.

Andreas Oehler studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Aachen/Germany, as well as environmental technology at the Technical University of Munich/Germany. After working for several years in academic settings, he now is responsible for product development, quality control and performance assessment at the bicycle lighting manufacturer Schmidt Maschinenbau. He volunteers as the head of the technical board of the German bicycle advocacy organization ADFC, which has more than 100,000 members. He lives in Tübingen/Germany.

Frank Berto

Frank Berto reviews many of our technical articles and provides research assistance and access to his large library. He has been riding bicycles since his childhood in the 1940s. Since 1973, he has published more than 100 technical articles in various magazines, as well as written four books about bicycles, including The Dancing Chain, an illustrated history of derailleurs.

Frank obtained a Master's degree in mechanical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1958. He worked in the oil industry as an instrumentation and oil measurement consultant. Frank lives in San Anselmo, CA with his wife Connie.

Christophe Courbou

Christophe Courbou is responsible for the layout of our books The Golden Age of Handbuilt Bicycles and The Competition Bicycle. For years, he raced bicycles as an amateur in France. Today, he prefers cyclotouring in the Massif Central of France, where he lives with his family at the top of a 5 km, 8% climb.