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The Authors

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Jessica Spiegel had a lifelong love of travel when she met her (now) husband in 1996, so it’s possible she first got interested in cycling in a bid to take an overseas trip. When she and her husband went to France in 1999 with four friends to chase the Tour de France around, that was it - she’s been a cycling fan ever since. And while she appreciates the well-toned backsides of the men in tights, she’s just as likely to spout odd cycling trivia as she is to drool over the cute boys.

Jessica is an avid amateur photographer, and looks much like the photo at the left (taken at the 2006 Worlds in Salzburg) to any country she visits. She’s managed to snap some pictures of cyclists over the years, though, so it makes seeing life through a lens all worth it.

While Jessica loves the sport of cycling, she hasn’t been on a bike since 1994 and isn’t keen to break that record. She’ll be talking about the parts of the sport she understands here on the Cycling Logue, and pretty much leaving the rest of it alone.

ashton Ashton Hill was one of the first people in Mobile, Alabama to own a ten-speed bicycle in the early 70s that wasn’t complete junk, and although he bought it mainly as a quick way to get around the University of Alabama campus, it became much more than a simple mode of transportation. He maintains a bike is still the best way to truly appreciate the curb appeal of the antebellum homes lining Dauphin and Government Streets in Mobile.

Ashton’s interest in bike racing started when Greg LeMond won his first Tour de France, and increased ten-fold during Lance Armstrong’s reign over that race. Ashton eventually began to appreciate the beauty and intricacy of the sport that is international bike racing and to be grateful that the people who have cherished and promoted this sport for so many decades have allowed some of the best from the United States to compete with and against the world’s best at the world’s most physically demanding sport.

Yoga is about the only exercise Ashton’s creaking joints allow now. But the Internet lets him watch most of the major races and his love of the sport continues to grow. Perhaps he can buy a new bike and move to Italy some day. It’s a good thing his wife loves Europe.

brett Brett Chappell has been a cycling fan since the Boyer-LeMond years, but there was only so much information he could get in the early 80s in a very non-cycling area like northern Alabama. With the advent of the internet and better RV coverage in the 90s, the sheer amount of info out there has taken his interest in the sport to a whole new level.

Brett lives in Huntsville with his wife and his degree in Mechanical Engineering (from the University of Alabama in Huntsville), and claims to hate both country and gospel music, which makes some of us question whether he’s really from the South. He’s a regular aficionado of 80s music, so if you’ve got an 80s song stuck in your head but you don’t know the name of it, Brett can likely name that tune for you.

And this might give you a sense of Brett’s sense of humor - see that guy getting run over by a car in the picture above? He thinks that’s funny. Approach this one with caution.

Ashton and Brett are both more than your average cycling fans - they’re also huge fans of University of Alabama basketball. Get either of them talking about “Bama Hoops” and you may never get them to stop. They both periodically contribute to the Alabama Basketball Blog.

As a young boy, Bob Kellett dreamed of a day when Al Gore would invent the Internet so that he could become a professional blogger writing about international football. After years of toiling in other writing positions that never, ever allowed him to write the numeric combination 4-4-2, Bob slept his way up the corporate ladder and became the Managing Editor of World Cup Blog, a site that attracted more than 3 million readers during the 2006 World Cup.