Category: Blog
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26/08 Bikes Versus Superspeeders
Taylor and Nick’s bike origins as told to Justin Mog, host of Sustainability Now! on Forward Radio in Louisville, Kentucky (1:11). Taylor joins Walk ’n Rollers to fix up bikes for kids (4:02). Charlie’s News: The Bayview Black History Ride is happening February 28th in San Francisco. A proposed New York law would create something…
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26/07 Holding The Line
Get your Bike Talk Sticker for a positive review. Listener email: Desmond on winter Riding and specifically mittens that attach to your handlebars, called pogies (1:41). The City of Los Angeles is set to give back over $100 million of previously won money for active transportation projects because it can’t build them in time, reports…
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2605 Our Streets
Taylor and Nick agree that scarves are for everyone. Parker S rode in the Minneapolis Alex Pretti memorial ride 1/31 and shares what it was like (6:52). Listener Rick Bosacker writes that bike rides shouldn’t be polarizing, or political (2:54). Streeetsblog NYC and LA editors Gersh Kuntzman and Joe Linton share their top priorities for…
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26/04 Riding With ICE and Snow
Alex Pretti, murdered by ICE in Minneapolis, was a bike rider. Laura Groenjes Mitchell of Our Streets Minneapolis and Brett Macgraw of the West Metro Active Transportation Alliance share a multi-city memorial ride for Alex Pretti started by his local bike shop, the Angry Catfish. Also, a fundraiser for people trapped by ICE in Minneapolis…
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26/03 Occupied By Biking
Do we need e-shifters? Is Taylor a luddite? (0:19) Listener Email: South Carolina’s Freeway for Bikes (2:43) Blind riding in tandem, with Sonya Chapnick (3:44). Charlie’s News: New York Governor Kathy Hochul proposes a “stop super speeders” pilot program. Check out the best new bike lanes of 2025. A New Jersey ebike lumping law threatens…
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26/02 Hopes
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…
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26/01 New Year, Same Things
Bike Talk Listener Survey results (0:40). Notable bike-related laws of 2025 with bike lawyer Jim Pocrass (15:00). Mamdani’s transit-focused inauguration in a New York Minute with Streetsblog NYC Editor Gersh Kuntzman (21:45). Charlie’s News: Mamdani brings back de Blasio-era plan for McGuinness Boulevard. Leadville, CO will host Fat Bike Worlds later in January. Citi Bike…
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#2552 Best of 2025
A sample of the interviews that made Bike Talk Bike Talk in 2025: Lucy Maloney, bike advocate turned council member in Vancouver from Episode #2533 (0:38). Zohran Mamdani interviewed by micro mobility organizer “miser” when Zohran ran for Mayor, from Episode#2525 (13:56). Black Girls Do Bike/Anjoleah Daye on BGDB in Los Angeles from the 2/7/2025…
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#2551 Call To Action
Listener email: The AV debate: safer than humans (Waymo at least, but Teslas crash more often). On the other hand, AI is inhuman and AVs could increase car dependency (1:07) Charlie’s News: Pride bike racks in response to pride crosswalk removal in Florida; University of Minnesota study shows biking before sunrise doesn’t hold back elementary…
