Outspoken Cyclist

While we will be celebrating our 250th Anniversary here in the States, the Grand Departe of the 113th Tour de France will lead off with a team time trial in ... Read more Outspoken Cyclist 7/1/2026

This episode brings together a long and sorrowful history and a bicycle tour that commemorates it. We are all familiar with rides that have meaning such as fund raisers for ... Read more Outspoken Cyclist – 6/19/2026

Seven years ago, Melissa and Chris Bruntlett gave up their cars, moved to the Netherlands, and have been exploring urban transformations around the world.  The last time I spoke with ... Read more Outspoken Cyclist – 5/31/2026

This is the next episode in our series of great rides around the U.S. for spring and summer 2026. Today, we visit Maine. Lung diseases affect 35 million people in ... Read more Outspoken Cyclist – 5/18/2026

I don’t think I’ve met a more fascinating person than adventurer Laura Killingbeck. For example, how many of us know from a very young age who we are and what ... Read more Outspoken Cyclist – 5/7/2026

I don’t know how you feel about trees, but I for one think they may be vastly underrated and WAY more important than people might give them credit for. Although, ... Read more Outspoken Cyclist – 4/29/2026

As we wrap up our third and final episode on eBikes, Ash Lovell and Matt Moore from People for Bikes take us into some of the legal issues and possible ... Read more Outspoken Cyclist – 4/18/2026

Before we get to our guest, I want to give a HUGE shoutout to our very own Bike Cleveland Executive Director, Jacob VanSickle.  Jacob was named Professional Advocate of the ... Read more Outspoken Cyclist – 4/9/2026

This episode of the show is Part I of a series about eBikes and the ongoing issues surrounding their definition, usage, regulation, and legislation – all topics of controversy and ... Read more Outspoken Cyclist – 3/31/2026

I really love having the chance to talk with my NYC friend and colleague John Surico – Professor Surico actually. Today, John joins me from his local coffee shop, so ... Read more Outspoken Cyclist 3/13/2026

I wanted to get this episode up before Omloop- the first European One-Day Classic this coming Saturday. Indeed, it’s Spring Classics time and as always, I turn to my bike ... Read more Outspoken Cyclist – 2/25/2026

I have a bit of housekeeping before we get to our two great guests today. First – it’s WJCU’s annual fundraiser – RADIOTHON! This year’s theme “Carrying the Torch for ... Read more Outspoken Cyclist Podcast – 2/8/2026

My guest today is an old friend and perhaps someone many of you might consider your friend too. If you subscribed to Winning Magazine or Velo News back in the ... Read more Outspoken Cyclist – 2/2/2026

As many of you know, I have a real soft spot for traditional steel frame bikes and so I always feel somewhat justified in my “curmudgeonly-ness” when I have the ... Read more Outspoken Cyclist – 1/10/2026

In my Substack post about Tucker Schwinn’s new book, Closure – The Final Days of the Waterford Bicycle Factory – I said I had hoped to be able to speak ... Read more Outspoken Cyclist 12/23/2025

I’m really pleased to welcome two great guests to the show today. The first is not new to TOC, and in fact has been someone I’ve not only spoken with ... Read more Outspoken Cyclist – 12/17/2025

Every time I think our issues with cars vs cyclists are getting so much worse, which of course they are, I come across something that is even more dreadful! Seems ... Read more Outspoken Cyclist – 12/04/2025

This episode was going to be an audio with commentary for my Substack.  But, as often happens when I speak with Joe Lindsey from the Escape Collective, the conversation becomes ... Read more Outspoken Cyclist – 11/20/2025

We read or hear about corruption from a lot of places and when I came across a story from Kevin Duggan from Streetsblog NYC about a prominent family in Brooklyn ... Read more Outspoken Cyclist Podcast – 11/11/2025

Scott Tong is one of my favorite NPR hosts. Most days, along with Robyn Young and several other Here and Now folks, I listen to Scott on WKSU, our local ... Read more Outspoken Cyclist 10/16/2025

This episode of the podcast offers up a short discussion with Bicycle Retailer’s EIC Steve Frothingham about U.S. Customs and the seizing of containers from Taiwan manufacturer Giant. Earlier this ... Read more Outspoken Cyclist – 9/26/2025

Shannon Binns didn’t make a plan to come to Charlotte, NC and stay; yet here he is more than 15 years after starting his not-for-profit organization “Sustain Charlotte.” Shannon started ... Read more Outspoken Cyclist 9/16/2025

It’s kind of a special episode for TOC because on September 4th, I will celebrate 15 years of TOC podcasting. From my very first guest, frame builder Ben Serotta, until ... Read more Outspoken Cyclist – 8/30/2025

I’m a huge believer in print – magazines, newspapers, books.  I prefer to turn pages and read from them, so when a client of ours mentioned this new magazine FAUSTO, ... Read more Outspoken Cyclist – 8/11/2025

This episode of the podcast covers good news for cyclists in PA and a look at what’s happening in NYC – from the mayoral election to Central Park. Ed Blazina ... Read more Outspoken Cyclist 7/16/2025