New faces

We’ve recently welcomed a host of volunteers recently to take on key roles within the IBFI. Here, we introduce the new members of the team:

Dr Wendy Holliday

Education Committee

The last issue of the magazine advertised the final three places on the newly-formed Education Committee. With 25 high-quality applicants, it was an incredibly tough decision to reduce the list to just three.

Dr Wendy Holiday (pictured, above) has a degree in Physiotherapy and a PhD in Cycling Biomechanics. You may have seen her present at conferences or advertise her courses and workshops with Curtis Cramblett. Wendy brings a wealth of experience in both medical practice and traditional academia.

Winston Tam has delivered bike fitting training for some of the biggest providers in the world. If you’re a fitter in Asia, you’ve probably been trained by Winston or know someone that has.

He’s one of the most active fit educators in the world and responsible for more trained fitters in Asia than any other single individual.

Dr Niels Boon comes to bike fitting with a background in both research and lecturing. With a PhD in physiology and biology, and having lectured in exercise physiology, health sciences and nutrition, he brings a unique perspective on the physiology of bike fit and great experience delivering high-level educational content. Niels now works with Shimano as Team Leader Product Development within bikefitting.com.

Niels helps to write and deliver Shimano’s bike fitting courses.

Website and Digital Team

After the destruction of our old website at the end of last year, we’ve been working hard behind the scenes to bring everything back online. It couldn’t have come at a worse time, with the new education system and common learning management platform (our new online courses website) launching at exactly the same time. The person in charge of the new education system was also the person responsible for the main website, so it quickly became apparent that we needed help. Thankfully, an IT professional from outside the world of bike fitting contacted us to offer just that. With their help, we hope to get not just our websites working smoothly, but all other digital aspects of the IBFI.

Martin Herrmann is a keen cyclist and an experienced Product Manager. He brings a wealth of product management experience and in the few short weeks he’s been involved with the

IBFI has already made great towards improving our efficiency and transparency. Jorrit van der Plaats is a bike fitter from the Netherlands who currently lives in Madrid, Spain. Having trained and worked as a fitter in London, UK, Jorrit brings high-level fitting knowledge to our digital team as assistant web developer, well as a keen interest in web design.

Chief Diversity Officer

One of our main objectives with the education committee was to have female representation. To ensure we received applications from female fitters, we contacted all of the IBFI’s female members asking them to apply - there were less than 10, which is less than 5% of the IBFI membership. This isn’t representative of the general population, or of the cycling population, which has seen a boom in female cyclists in recent years.

We need to do better at identifying why female cyclists don’t want to become bike fitters and ensure that we create a supportive and friendly environment for the ones that do choose this career. To that end, we recruited for a new role, whose sole focus will be on promoting underrepresented groups within the IBFI and ensuring equality and diversity within our organisation.

Chloe Murdock has a doctorate in Physical Therapy and has been working in bike fitting for over 10 years. She has experience mentoring both other PTs and bike fitters. She originally applied to join the Education Committee but hr passion for helping female fitters jumped off the page and made it clear she was the right person for this role instead.

Magazine staff

Many hands make light work and that's why we've taken on two additional volunteers to help with the publication of International Bike Fitter They will help create and manage content, as well as decide on themes for future issues and manage ads and marketing opportunities.

Jon Wild (left)

Jon Wild (pictured, above left) is a level 3 bike fitter based in Bristol in the South West of the UK. Jon is an experienced and educated fitter who recently completed his first IronMan triathlon. He has taken over the advertising role and will help with the regular Bike Fit Clinic piece that will return in the next issue.

Jarich Braeckevelt is a bike fitter and data scientist. His research includes studying movement patterns in cycling and he helped to develop training courses and products for major bike fitting brands. He also writes his own blog, which will become a regular feature of future issues of International Bike Fitter .

If you’re reading this and would like to get involved with the IBFI, there are always roles available. We’re also open to suggestions, so if there’s something we’re not doing but you think we should — and you’d like to be the one to help do it — then get in touch: We’re always happy to talk and discuss new ideas.