Chris Kegel - Chair
Chris is owner of the Wheel & Sprocket with stores in greater Milwaukee, Oshkosh and Appleton. Wheel & Sprocket is very involved in the cycling community, sponsoring over twenty rides, several teams, and many bike events. Chris serves on several boards including Bikes Belong, National Bike Dealer Association, International Mountain Bike Association, League of American Bicyclists, Wisconsin State Trails Council, Mequon Bikeways Committee, Ozaukee Bike Trail Council, Fall Color Mountain Bike Committee, Miller Lite Ride for the Arts, and the Juvenile Diabetes Death Valley Advisory Committee. In addition to taking bicycle trips to Montreal, Canada, with his son, Chris commutes two or three days per week twenty-five miles each way from Mequon to Hales Corners. He has served on the Bike Fed board since 1997.
Krista Rettg - Vice-chair
Krista Rettig is Trek Bicycle’s Director of Advocacy and Government Affairs. During her thirteen-year tenure at Trek, Krista has worked as a Sales and Dealer Services Representative, Trek Travel Brand Manager, and before assuming her current role in March of 2009, Trek Women Brand Manager. Krista is passionate about getting more people on bikes more often. In her role, Krista works closely with national advocacy organizations such as, Bikes Belong, The League of American Bicyclists, the International Mountain Bike Association, Trips for Kids, and the Alliance for Biking and Walking, as well as many State and local bicycle advocacy organizations. She manages the Trek retailer advocacy support through Trek’s 1 World 2 Wheels advocacy commitment.
A 1992 graduate from St. Norbert’s College with a B.S. in Sociology and Psychology, Krista is an avid cyclist, for both transportation and fitness. Krista is married to a Trek Bicycle design engineer and is the mother of a seven-year-old son and a there-year-old daughter.
Brian Anderson - Treasurer
Brian D. Anderson is a former USCF bicycle racer, a 5-time Chequamegon Fat Tire finisher (single speed and gears), a now-former puller of fully-loaded burleys, a former bicycle tourist and a 10-year bike commuter. He’s a strong believer in cycling advocacy, having been struck by, among other things, a car, coolers, firecrackers, and soda bottles while minding his own business on the bike.
Brian was also a Peace Corps Volunteer in Kenya where he used his mountain bike to carry jerry cans containing his daily water supplies. He now lives in Madison with his wife, Cynthie, and two children.
He is a shareholder with the law firm Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek SC in Madison, Wis., where he practices real estate, finance and corporate law. He also represents clients involved in green building and development and is a frequent speaker on the subject, having published and presented at numerous national and state conferences.
Spencer Black
Spencer Black recently retired from the Wisconsin State Assembly after serving 26 years. He is now an adjunct Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at UW-Madison.
As a legislator, Spence was Chair of the Assembly Natural Resources Committee which promoted many environmental initiatives, including the state trails system and the Stewardship Fund. Spence also chaired the Committee on Balanced Transportation which initiated the first significant state funding for bicycle facilities and served for many years on the Governor’s Bicycle Council. He was the leading legislative advocate for bicycling and helped pass legislation setting up the state trails system, the Nonmotorized Recreation and Transportation Trails Council and the new complete streets law. Spence is an active cyclist and was known at the Capitol for commuting to legislative sessions by bike.
He rides a Trek 5000. His favorite memory of biking is a ride around Horicon Marsh on which he first met his wife Pam.
Brien Christopherson
Brien is an avid commuter and bicycle racer, and is usually willing to ride just about anywhere on a bike. He races road and cyclocross for Team Wisconsin and serves on the Board of the team as Treasurer. He also has experience with a range of other non-profit organizations serving in grant giving, treasury and financial management positions.
When not on a bike Brien works as the Director of Corporate Development for Milwaukee based Rexnord Corporation where he is responsible for Mergers and Acquisitions. He lives in Wauwatosa with his wife and two sons. He is also a proud member of the Tosa Spokesman whose motto is “All Weather is Good Weather”!
Mary Ebeling
Mary Ebeling joined the Bike Fed board in 2009 while living in Sheboygan, where she managed the county’s $25 million Nonmotorized Transportation Pilot Program, expanding options for getting around by bike and foot. “I love to share the joy and freedom that comes with being able to bicycle and walk for transportation,” she says.
She was a founding member of the Sheboygan County Bicycle and Pedestrian Coalition, where she helped start the ReBike program, which teaches youth how to rehab used bikes and provides them with refurbished bikes for their own use. She was also involved in a campaign called “Get Lit – It’s the Law” to distribute safety lights to bicyclists who didn’t have any.
In 2010, Ebeling moved to Madison to work for the Department of Transportation to implement rural transit programs.
Bill Hauda
Bill Hauda is the former director of Wisconsin’s two major cross-state bicycle tours, GRABAAWR and SAGBRAW. He was a founder of the Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin and its first president. A longtime bicycle commuter, competitive triathlete, marathon runner, and recreational cyclist, he is a life member of the League of American Bicyclists.
A journalist by profession, Bill wrote columns on running and bicycling for United Press International andThe Capital Times newspaper of Madison. He currently authors a column on fitness and health for Silent Sports magazine. He is a board member and vice president of the Bombay Bicycle Club of Madison, Wisconsin’s largest bicycle touring club. Bill is also former board member of the Dane County Bicycle Association, a foundation which funds bicycle education and advocacy projects. Bills current term on the BFW board began in 2003.
Kierstin Kloeckner
Kierstin was in a way “born to bike”. Being brought up in a racing community lead to racing as a junior and then finding her own path as she aged. Kierstin’s love for biking runs deep and has taken her in many directions. From road racing to touring and commuting…any day is considered “better” if on a bike in her eyes.
Although she lived as a nomad for years, traveling and moving around the world, she has now grown some roots and has settled with her husband in Madison. Her commitment to improving cycling conditions in Madison and statewide brought her to the Bicycle Federation. By volunteering for events, she saw the need to have a stronger voice in hopes of empowering all levels of cyclists. She currently puts on an annual all-women’s bike event and writes her own blog www.twowheelsfromhome.blogspot.com as well as contributes to the Bicycle Federation blog.
Her hopes in working with the Board of Directors is to get more folks out commuting…year round. Kierstin also keeps involved with the cycling community through her job as a personal trainer and USA cycling coach at Harbor Athletic Club. She is currently working on a project to help those with Parkinson’s bike.
Gary Peterson
Gary (pictured here with his wife Susan) is a life-long resident of Madison with two degrees in Geography from UW Madison. He has worked as a community planning consultant for over 45 years, owning his own firm for over 33 years. His planning work consisted of Comprehensive Plans, Strategic Plans, Grant Applications, Grant Administration, Community Sustainability Plans and Zoning Ordinances. For 9 years Gary was the President of the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA). He enjoy commuting by bike and hoping on a bike to enjoy Wisconsin’s beautiful countryside.
Michael Rewey
Michael Rewey is a year-round transportation bicyclist and an expert on bicycle planning and facility design. He grew up in many Wisconsin towns and spent his entire career in the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. As a chief planning engineer, he oversaw transportation improvement programming, roadway and traffic data & analysis, and multi-modal transportation planning. Michael retired in early 2005.
Michael was a member of the Madison Platinum Bike Committee, which developed recommendations to improve bicycling access in Madison. The recommendations were adopted by the Madison Common Council in 2008. He has also served on the Stevens Point Common Council, the Madison Long Range Transportation Planning Commission, the Madison Commission on the Environment and the Madison State Street Design Oversight Committee.
Michael is on the Board of the Mississippi River Trail Commission, a 10-state commission dedicated to creating a bike route along each side of the Mississippi River from the Gulf to its headwaters in Minnesota.
Dr. David Waters
David is a bicycle enthusiast and advocate who lives in Shorewood, Wis., with his two daughters. David bicycle commutes to his job as a pediatrician at the Sixteenth Street Community Health Center. He is also an avid road biker and rides with The Mighty Muffin Men, the Shorewood bicycle club. David is a Wisconsin native and wants to help promote bicycling locally, nationally and internationally.
Robbie Webber
Robbie has the distinction of being the only board member who worked for the Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin. One of the Bike Fed’s first employees, Robbie is a long-time resident and former alderperson in Madison. A year round commuter, Robbie has taught everything from how to bike to work in winter to how to keep your cool in the heat of rush hour traffic.
Even though she no longer works for the Bike Fed, she brings her undying passion for cycling to every board meeting as well as the bicycle and pedestrian committees on which she serves in our state capitol.
Steve Weinstein
Steve is director of marketing and communications for Managed Health Services, a Wisconsin-based HMO. He previously served as director of global public relations for both Johnson Controls and Rockwell Automation. A community activist, Steve has served on several organizational boards including the Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Historic Milwaukee, The Milwaukee Press Club, Milwaukee Jewish Day School and the Hillel Student Center at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. Steve is an avid cyclist, having ridden in 37 of the 50 of the United States (yes, he’s ridden Alaska, but not yet Hawaii). As often as his work schedule allows, he rides one of his five bikes from his home on the east side of Milwaukee to his office in Wauwatosa. Steve is married to Barbara, a Milwaukee Public School teacher. He has two daughters, Samantha, an attorney in the Alaskan Superior Court, and Dana, an MBA candidate at Carnegie Mellon University.
Edward Zappen
Ed works as a Wood County Circuit Court Judge, Branch 3, in Wisconsin Rapids. Ed is involved in legal committees including Special Committee on Gender Neutrality and Wisconsin Criminal Jury Instructions Committee, currently serving as its chair since 2003. He acquired his first road bike in June of 2005 and joined the Bicycle Federation. Ed’s primary interest in the Bike Fed is the education of both drivers and cyclists in safe and courteous road sharing, as well as the improvement of roads to provide bike lanes, wider shoulders and paths.
Ed states, “I have become passionate about cycling as a form of exercise, transportation and social interaction.”
Ed was elected to his first term on the board in 2006
