Bike Talk

Los Angeles Bikeshare mechanic AnneMarie Drolet on biking in the winter and the Gender Expansive ride. 2:35 https://on.soundcloud.com/fzidN The author of the OC Register article, "Sorry, urbanists, but bicycles will never save the planet," Steven Greenhut, explains his perspective to Streetsblog LA Editor Joe Linton and Bike Talk cohost Taylor Nichols. https://www.ocregister.com/2023/11/10/sorry-u...

What to do in a bike crash, with LA Personal Injury Attorney Jim Pocrass. 5:18 https://on.soundcloud.com/GGpRF Livable Communities: bikes, transit, and housing. Liveable Communities Initiative founder Lindsay Sturman and Taylor Nichols. 11:09 https://on.soundcloud.com/EBHBN "Hating Bike Lanes is not a Winning Strategy," writes Massachusetts Streetsblogger Christian MilNeil of fall elections in Mas...

Shabazz Stuart, CEO of Oonee, on making bike storage ubiquitous and free. Also, how the ebike registration bill being pushed by members of the NYC Council will cause racial profiling and disincentivize biking. 2:27 https://on.soundcloud.com/1iZPY The Massachusetts Central Rail Trail was the focus of this year's Golden Spike Conference. Conference organizer Craig De La Penna recreates a breakout se...

NY State Senate considers one bill to install governors in the cars of people who speed, and another to tax vehicles by weight. Amy Cohen of Families for Safe Streets, which sponsors the bills, weighs in with Lindsay Sturman. 3:20 https://on.soundcloud.com/ZtrP6 How to increase bike mode share, with Brett Atencio Thomas, Active Transportation Coordinator with the city of Costa Mesa, California. Al...

Cohosts Taylor, Nick and Lindsay discuss a study that finds bicyclists are better people than drivers. https://jalopnik.com/study-finds-cyclists-are-better-people-than-drivers-1850964103 Sounds from Arroyo Fest, in which the 110 Freeway was closed to cars for a day. 6:36 https://on.soundcloud.com/Fdy7j Ongoing negotiations with Vancouver's anti-bike lane City Council, and the false equivalency of...

Malibu's deadly main road, Pacific Coast Highway ("PCH"), needs an overhaul. Damian Kevitt, Founder of Streets Are For Everyone, makes the case. 1:27 https://on.soundcloud.com/41h2d California's new speed camera legislation explained by David Sforza, Principal Consultant of the California State Assembly Transportation Committee.  5:39 https://on.soundcloud.com/XVc5G US pedestrian deaths are soarin...

On Bike Advocacy with Detroit Greenways Coalition Executive Director Todd Scott, Santa Monica Spoke Director Cynthia Rose, and cohosts Nick, Lindsay, Taylor, and Seamus. Michael Schneider on Healthy Streets Los Angeles, converting a freeway to a park, and how Streets For All advocates for bike friendly politicians. 15:10 https://on.soundcloud.com/NeMZe On the study showing women have lower rates o...

Fight the Power: NYC's Transportation Alternatives tries to build safe streets infrastructure despite a hostile Mayoral administration. With Alexa Sledge. Staying the Course: SF bike activists Robin Pam, Amandeep Jawa, and Sara Barz still support a center-running bike lane on Valencia Street in San Francisco. 7:09 https://on.soundcloud.com/fTdsf Not So Fast: Stacey Randecker and Luke Bornheimer re...

Intro: Bike LA's "Bike Fest" with Eli Akira Kaufman, Executive Director of BikeLA. Not Good Enough: a deadly bike lane design in SF, with Sustainable Transportation activists Luke Bornheimer and Stacey Randecker. 8:03 https://on.soundcloud.com/vXtts It works if you work it: a center running bike lane that works in the East Bay, with Bike East Bay Advocacy Director Robert Prinz. 22:06 https://on.so...

Intro Lindsay, Taylor and Nick on the upcoming show and Taylor's triumphant return from bike-friendly Spain. Carrying Water: Eric Berger’s article on the American Sepp Kuss' victory in the Vuelta a España. https://arstechnica.com/culture/2023/09/a-water-carrier-just-won-the-hardest-cycling-race-on-the-planet/ 10:15 https://on.soundcloud.com/4T4bd The Best Get Better: The end of Parking Mandates in...

Pilgrimage: Taylor Nichols' walk on the Camino de Santiago in Spain. Park It: Landscape Studies professor Reid Bertone Johnson created a playground for a day in a parking space for international parking day. 5:13 https://on.soundcloud.com/QKt7s Exercised: An interview with Andrew Leonard, the author of The NY Times Article "How I Turned My Errands Into Exercise." 15:05 https://on.soundcloud.com/Md...

Cohosts Seamus, Taylor, and Nick read listener email. 6:44 https://on.soundcloud.com/5aGsc Into The Blue: A company redesigns cities for biking as part of making them like "Blue Zones," the places where people live longest. With Dan Burden, Director of Inspiration and Innovation, Blue Zones LLC. 26:34 https://on.soundcloud.com/T4Qqm Kindermoord, American Style: A ribbon cutting at an unprotected b...

Fix it: Brake maintenance advice from fixie rider, activist, and Los Angeles Metro Bikeshare mechanic Anne Marie Drolet. 5:25 https://on.soundcloud.com/8sfcb Redesigner: Jeff Speck, author of "Suburban Nation" and "Walkable Cities," on making cities walkable and bikeable. With Taylor Nichols. 36:16 https://on.soundcloud.com/meh79 Regulate: Getting the National Highway Transportation Safety Adminis...

4:00 https://on.soundcloud.com/Np452 Healthy Pastime: The personal and planetary health benefits of biking with scientist and Resources Chair for League of Women Voters in Los Angeles Dr. Grace Peng and Isabella Chu, Associate Director of the Data Core at Stanford’s Center for Population Health Sciences. By Lindsay Sturman and Taylor Nichols. 28:33 https://on.soundcloud.com/UuLMM Business Bikelash...

3:53 https://on.soundcloud.com/wZMqa Here, Then, and When: How car companies sold us car-centric roads, and how autonomous cars and EVs will not solve that problem. With Peter Norton, author of "Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City," and "Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving." By Lindsay Sturman. 32:57 https://on.soundcloud.com/BkV3v Show Me the Way: On...

7:22 https://on.soundcloud.com/Eix9J Here for the Ratio: Anne Marie Drolet, a bikeshare mechanic in Los Angeles, breaks down gear ratios with Nick. 18:18 https://on.soundcloud.com/2C5iE Good Work: Kristen Sykes, a Holyoke, Massachusetts Bike Ped Committee and MassBike Board member, on what's being done to make Holyoke friendlier to bikes. With Holyoke student Lily Hoffman Strickler. 28:45 https://...

Magnus White's not-accidental car killing, No More Ghost Rides and Trash Panda Cycling's LA bike calendar with Raphael Hernandez and cohosts. https://linktr.ee/trashpandacycling 13:07 https://on.soundcloud.com/Umnsp Fight Back: Talking Back To Bikelash with CalBike's Kevin Claxton. https://www.calbike.org/talking-back-to-bikelash/ 35:44 https://on.soundcloud.com/Srv9m RAGBRAI: The Great Iowa Fall...

Chutzpah: the supermajority on Vancouver's City Council, ABC ("A Better City"), ripped out iconic Stanley Park's protected bike lane to make room for drivers to enjoy nature through windshields. Lucy Maloney, Vancouver safe streets activist, says that ABC has its sights on other bike lanes. But there's always hope. Then, cohosts Seamus, Taylor, and Nick discuss whether political ideology correlate...

0:00 Trash Talk: A recent listener email objected to Bike Talk's interview with Bike Mapper Jaimy Fisher because she didn't use Strava data that included MAMILs (Middle Aged Men in Lycra). Original interview at: on.soundcloud.com/XEC1y. This, according to our listener, constituted "Trash Talking MAMILS." Cohosts Taylor, Lindsay, Madeleine, Seamus & Nick do some introspecting, and find that we do i...

0:33 https://on.soundcloud.com/zpXmy Lucas Rowton, mountain bike racer and bike mechanic, gives some advice on chains and flats. 10:44 https://on.soundcloud.com/ixYFS LA Times Art and Design Columnist Carolina Miranda on her article, "Build less housing for cars and more for people," with Taylor Nichols. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2023-07-07/build-less-housing-for-cars-...

A recent Bike Talk forum covered the past, present, and future of Bike Advocacy in Los Angeles at the Los Angeles Ecovillage. Lois Arkin produced the event, and was presented with the Bike Talk Lifetime Bike Advocacy Supporting Role award for cofounding the LA Ecovillage. Ecovillagers had roles in starting the Bike Kitchen, LA County Bike Coalition (now BikeLA), and CicLAvia. The Panel consisted o...

14:07 https://on.soundcloud.com/AfXTA Bike Night: A bike rodeo and other bike events sharpened the skills and whet the appetites of children at North Adams, Massachusetts' "Pedal 2 The Metal" event, with Jessi Byrne, Health & Wellness Coordinator of the Northern Berkshire Community Coalition, and Nick Russo, Senior Planner of the Berkshire Regional Planning Commission. 20:39 https://on.soundcloud....

:23 https://on.soundcloud.com/EXosA Chicago's Bike Grid Now uses 4 mph "Slow Jam" rides to demand slow & safe bike-prioritized streets across Chicago. Chicago Bike Grid Now member Rony Islam speaks with cohosts Nick, Taylor, and Seamus. 12:37 https://on.soundcloud.com/QQxTC Bike philosophy, the differences between biking in NYC and LA, and bike advocacy in 3 short interviews by Seamus Garrity with...

Transcript: bit.ly/3OmdSnE 0:29 https://on.soundcloud.com/xwxnT Money Talks: Truck sideguards are proven to save lives; the League of American Bicyclists' Deputy Executive Director Caron Whitaker tells cohost Taylor Nichols how the USDOT chose the trucking industry over lives. 10:33 https://on.soundcloud.com/Le7gy Advocacy Roots: A recent Bike Talk forum covered the past, present, and future of Bi...

0:27 https://on.soundcloud.com/MuEKS Easy Does: Father's Day was the New Orleans Big Easy Bike Festival. Details from Bayou Queens and Bayou Cruisers Bike Club President Hardy Elzy. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1765096107047285/ 7:58 https://on.soundcloud.com/3NNrL Decongest: congestion pricing nears approval in NYC; how and why with energy-policy analyst, transport economist and environmental...