Taylor talks with Brent Muth at Ojai’s MOB bike shop and then at a farmer’s market with Annette, a member of the international nonprofit Cycling Without Age, which takes the elderly out for free bike rides (1:33).
The League of American Bicyclists’ National Bike Summit (9:33).
Cambridge, Massachusetts has seen a 250% ridership increase over two decades, with a crash rate decrease. There will be a National Town Hall on April 15th for the Stop Underrides Act of 2026. Bike lanes next to the National Mall are set to be removed despite lower crash rates and faster car travel times. The NYPD will stop giving cyclists criminal summonses for minor offenses (10:18).
Listener Email: Terry Fitzgerald questions our “cyclists can do no wrong” approach, but gets Bike Talk stickers for a positive review on Apple (13:09).
A metastudy on how Autonomous Vehicles can be safer yet may increase Vehicle Miles Traveled and displace transit. With Farah Naz, University of Texas-Arlington, co-author of the study (16:05).
Bob Middlestaedt and Asha Weinstein Agrawal discuss the Mineta Transportation Institute report on ebikes and an e-moto “rogues gallery” of illegal ebikes (31:28).
The irrational fear of ebikes in Massachusetts and a Micromobility report by MassBike, with Galen Mook, a.k.a. “Mookmaster Bikes,” and the owner/mechanic of Battle Road Bikes, Jim Cadenhead (49:34).
The study showing biking may reduce dementia (54:59).
