The Paceline Cycling Podcast

This week Patrick introduces the Paceline's new co-host Lori Barrett. Lori is a veteran of cycling, both in the industry and in racing and burns more energy in a day than some stars. She's a delight and brings a fresh perspective to the show.

This week John takes a look at how the men's Tour de France is going and opines about what the women's Giro d'Italia tells us about the upcoming women's Tour de France. Will cycling help you live to be old? Patrick considers a recent study on longevity and what his own experience recently hiking in Yosemite suggests.

John and Patrick talk creativity and cycling. John wonders if cycling really needs creativity, and Patrick asserts that because flow happens, creativity happens.

This week John looks at how bike categories have grown ever blurrier, to the consumer's benefit. Patrick examines the repeal of the Roadless Rule and what that means for wild spaces.

This week we have Tour de France preview. Who are the contenders for Yellow, Green, Polka and White Jerseys? Patrick finds flow on an eBike and wonders what that means, and we Paceline Picks to help you enjoy the Tour and upgrade your mountain bike shoe game.

Here we are, five years down the road from the lockdown, and the bike world is still in a state of flux. John wonders how shops might evolve their business model to survive. Patrick gets in the Wayback Machine and admits that the first time he encountered an ebike, he wasn't on board. He's learned a thing or two since then.

Cycling can be a political act. We're not talking defiance or protest or oppression, just the simple reality that riding a bike on the road means sharing space with other individuals doing things other than cycling. John considers the implications. Patrick checks in with regard to his effort to learn to mountain bike with flat pedals.

This week John takes on how there can be a delta between what we feel a bike is doing and what it is actually doing. Patrick looks at ebike batteries and just how trustworthy they are today.

In every group of riders, there are a few roles that need to be filled. There's the planner, the diesel, the pin cushion and the one who's always late, plus a few others. Which one are you? Patrick has taken on a new role, educator with the Sonoma County Bicycle Coalition and he talks about his experience teaching fourth graders about riding bikes.

Conformity. How important is it to fit in? John wonders what we gain through conformity and whether the effort results in sufficient reward. Patrick takes a look at a looming issue in mountain bike advocacy.

This week John takes a look at just what we need when we head out for a ride. A helmet seems a given ... usually ... but what about that water bottle? Eyewear? Do you really need a cycling jersey? Patrick digs into part two of his piece on hacking flow, and suggests strategies that can help a rider tip into flow on the bike.

The show opens with a remembrance of British rider Barry Hoban. Bike riding is fun, right? John considers how much of his fun has been Type 1 (fun right now) vs. Type 2 (fun in the retelling) and suggests that he will be better served by more of the former and less of the latter. Patrick discusses flow and the triggers that give rise to a flow state, so that we may better hack into an ideal state...

This week, John discusses what he's doing to take care of himself given the uncertainty in the world and the fact that his home is about to get a lot noisier. Patrick is just back from the Sea Otter Classic where he saw a great many cool new products, including some from our friends at Shimano, which he can't discuss in any depth just yet because embargos.

This week John takes a look at how we talk about the qualities we value in a bike. Patrick takes a look at a fresh stance one chapter of the Sierra Club has taken with regard to mountain biking.

This week, John poses a question: What bike have you spent the most miles or time on? Beneath that is the real question: Why? What made that bike so indispensable?

John considers goal setting and how that differs from a lifestyle, and just what is the cycling lifestyle? Patrick is investigating the rise of the ebike in the U.S. and how ebikes here differ from those in Europe and Asia.

John takes a hard look at motivation and the currency it offers our ambitions. Patrick considers the spring and ramping up mileage for the coming season.

John and Patrick look back at how they learned to ride and consider what they did differently in teaching their kids to ride. They didn't make all the same mistakes their parents did, but they also made a few new ones.

John has been injured ... for entirely too long. He's taken some time off the bike to recover and he's about to turn the pedals again and he has realized that's he's daydreaming about riding. That he's daydreaming isn't surprising, but what he dreams of may be. Patrick had a breakthrough with his teen son and riding.

Tariffs have been in the news a bunch of late. They have made a substantial impact on the bike biz in the last year. John takes a look at what that is already doing to the bike world. Patrick considers how a voluntary ride in cold, wet weather taught him something about how he loves.

This week John and Patrick take on the subject of how riding affects the lives of those around us. Do they support it? Do they resent it? How do we position cycling in our lives in order to make the case that everyone is better when we get out for a ride?

John takes a look at e-bike design and evolution and wonders where we are headed. Patrick takes a look at a new e-bike law in California as well as a class-action lawsuit against one e-bike maker.

This week John takes a look at the cost of being a cyclist and compares it to the investment into a new vehicle or a jaunt to Paris. Patrick considers riding in winter and the benefits pedaling in cold weather confers.

This week is a tandem episode and my guest is Scott Holz, a senior program manager for Specialized. I met Scott back in the mid-aughts when he first joined Specialized as a fit instructor for their SBCU fitting school. Since that time, Scott’s role has evolved quite a bit including stints overseeing the Body Geometry brand of products and the Retül fit system, but he’s still intimately involved wi...

Bikes lost—well, not so much lost, as ones we sold off or let slip from our grasp and which we, if given a magic time machine, we might not have parted our way with.