Bike Talk

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...

1:21 https://on.soundcloud.com/eVUsi Alternative Vision: an update on campaigns of NYC safe streets advocacy organization Transportation Alternatives including Sammy's Law and 25x25, with Associate Director of Communications Alexa Sledge. 12:53 https://on.soundcloud.com/FjXdn Hunger for Justice: A hunger strike to get the NY State Assembly to pass Sammy's Law for locally set speed limits by Famili...

1:29 https://on.soundcloud.com/RfwA2 Connected: A car-free path providing critical connections between the Riverfront and Detroit destinations recently opened in Detroit. Marc Pasco, Director of communications for the Detroit Riverfront and Conservancy, tells Taylor, Lindsay, and Nick about the recently opened Southwest Greenway. https://detroitgreenways.org/projects/southwest-greenway/ 5:24 https...

:58 https://on.soundcloud.com/76wUv The Price of Parking: Paved Paradise author Henry Grabar explains how parking ruins cities. With Taylor Nichols. 20:11 https://on.soundcloud.com/2KW2w London Calling: journalist and Spokesmen podcaster Carlton Reid on how London, like Paris, makes driving inconvenient, and why that's necessary to increase bike, pedestrian, and transit modeshare, for a more livea...

1:36 https://on.soundcloud.com/tqsbL His Turf: John Jones III, East Side Riders President, at CicLAvia Mini. 5:00 https://on.soundcloud.com/P7mpZ Critical Comeback: Vancouver's conservative city council uses dedicated bike funds to remove a protected bike lane. In response, Vancouver's Critical Mass has come back. With Lucy Maloney and Rob Zomber. 19:05 https://on.soundcloud.com/FVFKc What you don...

Intro Bike Month happenings with Detroit Motown Trailblazers Founder Reo Ramsay, Los Angeles CicLAvia Executive Director Romel Pascual, and Berkshire Bike Path Council President Marjorie Cohan. With cohosts Seamus Garrity, Nick Richert, and Taylor Nichols. 18:10 https://on.soundcloud.com/xWmMo Life or Liberty: AB 645 would install speed cameras in California cities, including San Francisco and Los...

Intro Bike Month: What's happening May, Bike Month, in Santa Monica, Detroit, and Northampton, Massachusetts; cohosts Taylor Nichols, Lindsay Sturman, and Nick Richert get a rundown with Cynthia Rose, Director of Santa Monica Spoke, Todd Scott, Executive Director of the Detroit Greenways Coalition, and Elena Huisman, Board Member of Friends of Northampton Trails. 15:19 https://on.soundcloud.com/YT...

5:13 on.soundcloud.com/mJcC1 Bike Wars: Seamus Garrity interviews Streetsblog LA Editor Joe Linton and Streets For All Founder Michael Schneider on Los Angeles's misleading claims about its progress towards Mobility Plan 2035, and the ballot measure that would force the city to implement its plan. https://la.streetsblog.org/2023/04/13/astonishing-city-planning-department-mobility-plan-status-repor...

2:33 https://on.soundcloud.com/gjUub Violence Reaction: A steep spike in Oakland, California car killings after the pandemic and the loss of the city's pandemic-era slow streets spurred the formation of The Traffic Violence Rapid Response Team. Seamus Garrity interviews George Spies and Carter Lavin, volunteers with the Team. 21:59 https://on.soundcloud.com/nW5By Lives Above All Else: Columbus, Oh...

1:00 https://on.soundcloud.com/aUw3u This is Big: The Mass Central Rail Trail (MCRT), when finished, will be the longest rail trail in New England at 104 miles from Boston to Northampton, 2/3 of the way across the state. Craig Della Penna, Executive Director with Norwottuck Network, a non-profit corporation that supports the build-out and operation of the Mass Central Rail Trail, here gives Bike T...

2:24 https://on.soundcloud.com/ocg3p Wild and Free: A girl tames a big-kid bike in "Wild Blue: Taming a Big-Kid Bike," by bestselling children's book author and journalist Dashka Slater. Dashka reads the story. 19:44 https://on.soundcloud.com/7e3vN No Time For Losers: Pittsfield's City Council strikes down a referendum to bring the design of its downtown pilot protected lane to voters on the Novem...

1:19.70 https://on.soundcloud.com/o9tF3 Alleycats: The 23rd National Bike Summit, which wrapped up at the end of March, had an "adjacent" Alleycat ride: the Intro to Alleycat ride, or Alleycat for Dummies. Galen Mook, MassBike Executive Director, interviews Joel Gwadz, organizer of the ride, along with John Yeast of New Belgium Brewery, one of the ride's sponsors. 16:01 https://on.soundcloud.com/V...

1:29 https://on.soundcloud.com/FLPQ1 Our Streets: A coalition of equity-focused active transportation and mobility justice organizations has formed in Los Angeles to change the way the city designs its streets. Eli Kaufman, Executive Director of BikeLA, Andres Ramirez, Executive Director of People for Mobility Justice, and John Yi, Executive Director of Los Angeles Walks, join Bike Talk cohost Sea...

The unedited conversation between Karen Parolek of Walk Bike Berkeley, Lucy Maloney of https://lovethelane.ca/, Pittsfield, Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Utilities Ricardo Morales, and https://www.slowstreets.us/ founder Luke Bornheimer from this episode: https://soundcloud.com/biketalk/bike-talk-slow-streets-please

2:00 https://on.soundcloud.com/LMwkX Bike Lit: UK Professor Dr. Marlon Moncrieffe on the Black experience in cycling and his book, "Desire, Descrimination, Determination: Black Champions in Cycling," with Nick Richert 30:15 https://on.soundcloud.com/6oZSt Riding in Their Footsteps: David Goodrich on his book, "On Freedom Road," about his bike tour along the route of the Underground Railroad, his b...

Transcript: bit.ly/3Zc52em 1:03 https://on.soundcloud.com/92anJ Gold Standard: Queens' 34th Avenue open street is the open street other open streets emulate. Jim Burke, a 34th Ave Volunteer Leader, talks to Nick Richert. 10:44 https://on.soundcloud.com/oiwXe SF Intersection: Open streets and housing in San Francisco with Robin Pam, Parent Organizer and Founder at Kid Safe SF, and Annie Fryman, Dir...