Bike Mechanic Jim Cadenhead consults with Taylor about fixing a flat on his Surly. Problems: there’s a thru-axle and he thought it was tubeless (2:45).
Charlie’s News: Virginia plans toget rid of parking minimums in September. Zohran pleases some as he smooths a notorious bump at the end of Williamsburg Bridge, but leaves others dissatisfied with the continuation of cyclists receiving criminal summonses. Over 2,700 ebikes have been sold and subsidized in the Bay Area in the last 6 months. As mountain biking gains popularity, bike parks are becoming the status quo instead of traditional trail development (11:13).
The NYPD targeted cyclists in the Williamsburg Bridge bike lane near the “zohramp,” where Mamdani personally fixed a bump. Meanwhile, drivers ran red lights with impunity https://www.reddit.com/r/MicromobilityNYC/s/Wi4hDxk6eA (42:22).
Zohran Mamdani’s transportation and bike focus in his first week as NYC Mayor with Carl Mahaney, Director of Streetopia Upper West Side; Sophia Lebowitz, reporter with Streetsblog NYC; Miser, who runs the Micromobility NYC subreddit; and Shabazz Stuart, founder and CEO of Oonee bike storage (16:20).
Los Angeles is ‘throwing good money after bad’ trying to solve the traffic problem at its airport, LAX, says Jacob Wasserman https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-12-16/lax-airport-traffic-olympics (46:06).
