Seattle Bicycle Expo will be held this year at an exciting new venue on the waterfront. To celebrate our new digs, we have programmed three exciting stages with world-class talent! Read about all our speakers, presenters and performers below.

In addition to the three stages, we will have several new exhibits and features, including a beautiful exhibit by the Oregon Bicycle Constructors' Association, a Classic Bike Show featuring a Jack Taylor Bicycle exhibit, and more!

World Champion Artistic Cyclists from Germany!
Corrina Hein, Stefan Musu and Lukas Matla

You may have watched the sensational indoor cycling video featuring young German athletes performing amazing stunts and tricks as it made it’s viral rounds on Facebook and the like. These videos made quite the splash not only on national television, but also landed in the inbox of several staff members at the Cascade Bicycle Club office.

Rather than just enjoy the video, we decided to invite the new UCI World Champion in single artistic women, Corinna Hein, plus one of the world’s best pairs in men’s double, Stefan Musu and Lukas Matla, to perform at the 2010 Seattle Bike Expo!

Artistic cycling is a form of competitive indoor cycling in which athletes perform tricks (called exercises) for points on specialized, fixed-gear bikes in a format similar to ballet or gymnastics. The exercises are performed before judges in six minute rounds by singles, pairs, four or six-man teams. "Kunstradfahren" is the German term for a particular discipline, recognized by the UCI of artistic trick cycling. It's done on fixed bikes with 1:1 transmission, upturned (shallow) drop bars, horizontal top tube, tires pumped up hard for high precision and a couple of other bits and bobs added to the bike

The sport, although new to most of us on the USA, has been popular in Europe for quite some time. The first official artistic cycling World Championships were held in 1956. This sport is most popular in Germany, where there are no fewer than 10,000 lisence holders! As a sport, artistic cycling is a bit like ice-skating or gymnastics. It is a discipline requiring skill, balance, concentration and courage. The competitors (entering either as individuals or in pairs) offer a 6-minute program with a musical accompaniment. During competitions, a jury judges the quality of the figures.

Corinna Hein hails from Darmstadt, Germany and has been the UCI world ranking woman’s singles points champion in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, and 2009. Stefan Musu and Lukas Matla, from Duisburg, Germany, won the UCI World Championship in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 and are regarding as being on the very pinnacle of their sport. The group will be performing multiple special 15-minute performances each day - there is limited room so please get their early to reserve a spot!

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Ken Taylor

Jack Taylor Cycles began with Jack Taylor building bikes in his garden shed on Greta Road in Stockton-on -Tees, in Yorkshire in northern England. The year was 1936… Jack Taylor Cycles became an official business in 1945 when his two brothers, Ken and Norman, joined in. Jack became the paint and decal man becoming legendary for his box lining. Norman took the role of frame builder and Ken was the master wheel builder and in charge of assemblies and packaging. They were quite popular in America and exported many singles and tandems into the USA. The family business produced a lot of lugged frames as well as lug-less bronze-welded frames. They developed this style of frame building out of necessity during the war, as lugs were hard to get during this time. Jack Taylor Cycles produced frames up until just a few years ago when Norman finally retired. Seattle Bike Expo is very proud to host Ken Taylor as a most special guest at the 2010 show.

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Gale Bernhardt

Gale Bernhardt is a coach, author and athlete. She was selected to be the coach of both the 2004 USA Triathlon Men’s and Women’s Olympic teams and the 2003 Pan American Games USA Triathlon Men’s and Women’s team coach. In recent years she has worked with the International Triathlon Union’s Sport Development project, helping athletes and coaches be successful. Gale’s first Olympic experience was traveling to the Games as the personal cycling coach for an individual cyclist at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. In addition to successfully coaching road racers, she has helped amateur and elite mountain bike racers achieve their goals.

The principles she uses to help her personal clients achieve success are shared with you in the books she has written. You can find plenty of training information and detailed training plans in Training Plans for Multisport Athletes, Training Plans for Cyclists, Triathlon Training Basics, Bicycling for Women and the Workouts in a Binder® series all published by VeloPress.

Her current passion is endurance mountain bike racing where she’s moved from “Last Ass up the Pass” to first in class at the Leadville 100 Mountain Bike Race.

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Jef Mallet

Jef Mallett is the author and illustrator of the award-winning and nationally syndicated comic strip Frazz, which runs in over 160 newspapers in the U.S. and Canada and at comics.com/frazz. Jef has published three collections of Frazz illustrations, Frazz 3.14159…, Frazz, Live at Bryson Elementary, and 99 Percent Perspiration. He also illustrated Jamie Smith's book, Roadie: The Misunderstood World of a Bike Racer. Jef writes a regular column for Inside Triathlon and Triathlete magazines and is a contributing artist for VeloNews magazine.

Jef has been racing triathlons on and off since the early '80s, alternating between triathlon and bike racing. He just finished his second Ironman this fall and has been a Seattle Expo favorite over the years.

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Joe Parkin

Heeding the advice of Bob Roll, Joe Parkin left the United States at age 19 to pursue a career as a professional cyclist in Europe – a career that spanned more than a decade. Parkin competed in virtually every cycling discipline imaginable and is the only American man to have represented the US in the World Championships in the elite Road, Mountain Bike and Cyclocross categories.

Passionate about all things with wheels, he has worked extensively in cycling since retiring from racing. In 2007 Parkin published A Dog in a Hat, chronicling his adventures in the European peloton. This book became in instant cult classic among cycling fans around the world. He just finished his second book, Come & Gone, to be released in the spring of 2010. Joe will be speaking about both exciting titles at Expo!

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Ryan Leech

Ryan Leech has devoted a fourteen-year-long career as a professional mountain biker to performing thousands of stunt shows in pursuit of promoting cycling and an active lifestyle. Highlights include traveling the world with the Vans Warped Tour, the Jeep World Outside Festival, numerous stints with Cirque du Soleil, the Calgary Stampede, Whistler’s Crankworx and numerous corporate events.

Ryan is renowned for a relentless commitment to innovative and progressive riding. His reputation is enhanced with contributions to the most important mountain bike films of the last decade: the Kranked Series, Ride to the Hills, the Collective, and Roam. His 2008 self-produced film Crux, is the latest to push the boundaries of riding.

With support from long-time sponsor Norco Bikes, Leech’s goals are as lofty as ever. With a recent focus on inspirational speaking at schools, he wishes nothing less than to use the magic of cycling as a tool to promote well-being in the world.

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Willie Weir

Willie Weir is the author of Spokesongs, a columnist for Adventure Cyclist magazine and is very well known to public radio listeners for his commentaries aired on KUOW in Seattle. His writings have appeared in newspapers across the country and earned him a gold and bronze Lowell Thomas Award, given by the Society of American Travel Writers. He has cycled over 60,000 miles throughout the world- a perennial Expo favorite is back with his latest stories of the road less travelled.

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Joe Kurmaskie

Joe Kurmaskie, dubbed the "Metal Cowboy" by a blind rancher he encountered one icy morning in Idaho, has been addicted to the intoxicating freedom and power of the bicycle ever since he "borrowed" his big sister's banana-seat bike at the age of five. As he careened down the neighborhood hill, much to his parents' dismay, Joe set in motion what has become a lifelong love affair with the road and the wheel. In Metal Cowboy, Joe offers up an infectious and big-hearted collection of true adventures and misadventures, chronicling his time touring America on his bicycle.

A journalist for two decades, he's been a contributing writer to Bicycling Magazine, Details, Men's Journal and worked as an editor for five years at an AP newspaper, before becoming and author and entertaine. His work has appeared in Details, Midwest Bike and The SF Chronicle. He is the star of Discovery Channels new “Adventure Dad” upcoming TV series and lives in Portland Oregon with his wife Beth and three boys; Quinn and Lorenzo and Matteo.

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Josh Poertner

Josh started road racing at 14, signed a contract to race Div 2 in France at 17 and then came home at 18 to attend Vanderbilt University. Josh started at Zipp in 1999, right after Andy Ording bought the company and for a while was the only engineer on staff… He then became the Chief Engineer, Head of Design and now is the ‘Technical Director and Head of Product Development’.

In the last ten years Zipp’s teams have developed and patented aerodynamically surfaced rims and the technology to produce the tooling, developed the deepest and most aerodynamic wheel in the world, reinvented the disc wheel 2 times, developed collet systems in aerobars, invented 3-dimensionally reinforced composite rims, and most lately developed the first fully-toroidal aluminum rims.

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Patty Swedberg

Patty Swedberg founded “Raise the Bar” in 2004 and began building a team of everyday men and women who enjoy the challenge and benefits of triathlon. The enthusiastic 2010 RTB triathlon team sponsored by The Hope Heart Institute is now at over 200 members that race at every level and every distance in the sport. RTB also provides training clinics and classes in the Seattle and South Puget Sound and produces a list of multisport events including the Friday Night Swim Race series, the inaugural Lake Meridian Triathlon, and the top off-road triathlon in the nation, XTERRA Black Diamond. Patty “Tri’d” for the first time at the Seafair Miller Lite Triathlon in 1986 and has been hooked ever since. She has a Bachelor of Science in Occupational Therapy and a certificate in Sports Medicine and Human Performance from the University of Washington, and considers the other coaches, sponsors, staff, and athletes of Raise the Bar to be tremendous sources of education as well.

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Craig Undem

Craig's lifelong passion is cycling. Since beginning with a collegiate race in 1983 and eventually racing in the World Championships of Cyclocross, winning a World Cup medal in Mountain Bike Racing and placing 2nd in the US in Elite Criterium Championships, he has earned the equivalent of a Doctorate in Cycling on the bike.

Off the bike Craig has been a professional cycling coach since 1996, is currently the Director of all Junior racing in the state of Washington, CEO and founder of Cycle University. He is an Expert coach with USA Cycling and a graduate of the Carmichael Coaching College. Craig coached for Lance Armstrong’s coach for 3 years and assisted him at the Tour de France in 2002 and 2003.

Craig’s pro level racing career and involvement with cycling’s key player’s gives him a unique insider’s experience of cycling which has shaped his philosophy of coaching and motivating athletes at all levels of the sport. Cycle University is a "Brain Trust" of cycling's best and brightest minds, lead by Undem, developing new methods to improve anyone's cycling ability in a supportive, innovative and inspirational environment.

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Erik Moen PT

Erik Moen is a national authority on bicycle biomechanics and injury intervention and prevention. His rehabilitation strategies utilize elements of keen biomechanical assessment, restoration of motion, coordination, and strength. Erik is Founder of Corpore Sano, the Pacific Northwest’s orthopedic and sports physical therapy clinic, with a special concentration on bike fit, physical therapy for injury recovery, and sports performance evaluation and improvement.

Erik received his Bachelor of Science Biological Research from Pacific Lutheran University, and his Physical Therapy degree from the University of Washington. He is also an editor/contributor to several cycling publications. Erik enjoys road, cyclocross and track cycling as well as soccer and alpine skiing in his free time.

In 2008 Erik was invited to join the coaching and support staff of the U.S.A Cycling team at the Beijing Summer Paralympics. Following that successful tenure he has asked to join Team USA Once more at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Paralympic Games. He has also has been the official host of many special presentations at the Seattle Bike Expo over the years and a proud member of Cascade Bicycle Club.

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Byron

Byron is the Principal of Textura Design, an agency that specializes in creative and interesting approaches to social media. He's a full-time blogger and coauthor of Publish & Prosper: Blogging for Your Business, a New Riders book.

In his career, Byron built many of the original business blogs for Fortune 100 companies. He evangelizes new web technologies, developing and deploying strategies to integrate them into business practice. He also founded and publishes Bike Hugger, a blog about bike culture and rides his bicycle in faraway places like Europe, China, and India.

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Lang Reynolds

Lang is currently a Category 1 road racer and has competed in a wide range of endurance sports for over a decade. He has been involved with cycling since the tender age of 5, when his parents first put him on the back of a tandem for weekend breakfast rides. After running track and cross country in high school in college, Lang switched to concentrate on road racing full time in 2005 and joined the Cycle University family as a coach in late 2006.

With a broad base of experience in Junior, Collegiate, and Elite level road racing, Lang holds a BA in Biology from Swarthmore College (2005) and is the resident Cycle U "power guru." Lang has coached cyclists of all ability levels, from fitness and recreational cyclists all the way up to Category 2 road racers. His clients have included state champions and top age-group Ironman finishers.

After seasons with Recycled Cycles/Raleigh and AxleyUSA.com Elite Teams, Lang continues with the Hagens-Berman LLP Elite Cycling Team in 2009 for his second year with the team.

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Kristi Berg

Kristi has been recognized as probably one of the most diverse and accomplished cyclists in the Northwest by many of her peers. Going into her 13th year of competitive cycling, Kristi has gained valuable experience and challenges with several injury rehabilitations, and coming back to top form after giving birth to her son. She continues to race at the top level in several disciplines on a National level.

Kristi has competed professionally in both Cross Country and Downhill Mountain Biking, as well as currently racing professional in both Cyclocross and Cross Country MTB. She is currently a Cat. 2 on the Road and has even had National success racing BMX in both 20" and Cruiser classes.

Cycling has taught Kristi many valuable lessons in life and has shaped who she is. Kristi is now looking forward to helping others take their cycling to that next level or even just maintaining good fitness using the bicycle as a recreation. She is a nationally certified personal trainer and a U.S.A. Cycling coach.

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Laurelhurst Unicycling and Juggling team

The Laurelhurst Unicycling and Juggling team is a group of hard working 4th and 5th grade students. They practice almost every day during their recess time to learn new tricks and build skills. They are an exciting group that loves performing.

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The Classic Lightweight Bike Show:
Featuring special guest Ken Taylor, from London, England!

Due to popular demand we have expanded the Classic Bike Show to run both days of Expo. Of special interest this year is a visit by Ken Taylor, of Jack Taylor Cycles, producers of fine bikes in Stockton-on-Tees, England, from 1936 through 1990. There will be a presentation including a recent video interview with Jack Taylor, a 1985 BBC documentary featuring the Taylors, and a slide show of vintage Taylor pictures at the exhibit. The films will show at the exhibit multiple times in a special viewing area at the booth. All Taylor owners are encouraged to bring their bikes to this once-in-a-lifetime event. Classic bike show exhibitors and Taylor fans will also be invited to a special dinner on Saturday evening with Ken.

The Classic Bike Show will showcase handmade lightweight bikes from Italy, England, USA, France, Belgium, Australia, and more. Anyone can exhibit at Classic Bike Show, but event ticket purchase is required. Exhibitors may bring as many bikes as they want, and may bring them in either Friday afternoon or before opening Saturday morning. Please bring bike stands if you have them.

Please contact Exhibit director Bob Freeman at Elliott Bay Bicycles (206) 441-8144 or ebbikes1@aol.com with questions about the show/dinner. Note this is a show of Classic Lightweight Cycles: any bikes made in the "pre-indexing" time frame (pre-1984) are welcome. We respect and admire the classic American balloon tire bikes too but this is a show for lightweight bicycles only.

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Kids' Bike Zone

The Kids' Bike Zone at Expo is back and will feature a special Treasure Hunt that is fun for kids of all ages. Get your Expo passport and clue list right as you enter. Wander through the exhibitors to find the answers to your clues! Answer them all and you get a great prize!

Come one, come all, to play at Cascade’s carnival with a twist. Step up and show your skill in our bike-themed games and win fun prizes. Examples of a few of our games: Go Fishin’ for a Bike, Penny Pitch, Ring a Sports Drink, and Wheelie of Fortune.

There is more to this art table than glitter and magic markers. At our Art Table, you can make art that reuses bike parts in new and fun ways. Decorate bike number plates and recycle bike parts and inner tubes into bracelets, key chains, bike fairies, and any other creative ideas you might have.

Finally, a new learn-to-ride and stunt area will be open on the covered deck-bikes provided- you bring the warm clothes!

[Kids' Bike Zone Schedule]

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Oregon Bicycle Constructors Association

The Oregon Bicycle Constructors Association is coming back to the Seattle Bicycle Expo! Oregon has a remarkable concentration of bicycle talent; some 40 frame makers, the worlds foremost bicycle fabrication and mechanic school, and the worlds only organization for frame makers, the Oregon Bicycle Constructors Association (OBCA).

OBCA members will exhibit amazing bicycles at the Expo showing their incredible range of talent with nearly every type and style of bicycle; commuter, track, road, cross, mtb, randonneur, tandem, fixies, folders, BMX and others. No material is safe from these guys; steel, aluminum, titanium, carbon, bamboo and wood are used to create everything from pure art, award winning show bikes and race winners in every category. If you could marry a bike, the OBCA booth row is where you’d meet your one and only.

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Kenmore Camera Photo Contest

Back and bigger than ever! Entries must be received by March 10, 2010.

Universal Sports Viewing Lounge

Relax and enjoy great tapings of most 2009 major cycling races

Blogger Lounge

Hosted by Bikehugger.com - swing by the hear the latest…

Free Bike Fits

What’s better than a custom bike fit to start the season off right? Group Health physical therapists will be conducting complimentary bike fits at the Group Health booth. Must bring your own bike.

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