Category: Blog
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#2530 States, Provinces, and Suburbs Versus Cities and Safety
Taylor’s ride through the burned-down Pacific Palisades neighborhood, and architect Neale Payton’s insight into rebuilding the area as a Transit Oriented Development in the April 2025 Bike Talk episode (0:28). Two vigils, four car victims, one day for NYC: Transportation Alternatives Communications Director Alexa Sledge shares audio of speakers at the vigil for the double…
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#2529 From LA to Halifax: Bike Battles, Memorials, and Momentum
A West Hollywood memorial and ghost bike placing for cyclist Blake Ackerman, killed by hit-and-run. Streets Are For Everyone Director of LA County Advocacy, Brett Slaughenhaupt (3:00). Hit and runs from a Legal POV: James Pocrass (6:01). A simple four point plan to stop hit and runs. BikinginLA.com blogger Ted Rogers (13:06). The Los Angeles…
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#2528 Opportunities in crisis for NYC protected lanes, Bike Life “buyout” for street vendors in LA, an “Anti-Vehicle Agenda” suspected in San Diego
Taylor made it to Michigan, and having ridden to LAX in 56 minutes, he’s never going back…to driving (1:13). Taylor talked to Tal Babcock, employee of a cafe in a former railroad depot where his grandfather was the Station Master, on the Michigan North Central bike route (2:41). A NY judge rules NYC Mayor Adams…
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#2527 – Tactical Urbanism and Bike Activism in Seattle and Winnipeg + Bike Painting
Taylor’s riding his bike to LAX, then biking to car-free Mackinac island, MI (0:56). Bike activist and Cascade Bike Club volunteer Merlin Rainwater was brushed by a bus after being let out in a dangerous place by a Seattle bike lane. After a hit and run on a cyclist in the same spot, Merlin and…
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#2526 – Pushing Back on Bikelash (repeat from August of 2023)
Magnus White’s not-accidental car killing and the language of car “accidents,” with No More Ghost Rides and Trash Panda Cycling’s LA bike calendar organizer Raphael Hernandez (2:31). Fight Back: Talking Back To Bikelash with CalBike’s Kevin Claxton (13:20). RAGBRAI: The Great Iowa Fall Ride with “Shift” documentarians/Des Moines Register journalists Courtney Crowder and Kelsey Kremer,…
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#2525 – We love LA, Deliveristas, Zohran for Bikes NYC, and Picture Main Street
At the virtual Bicycle Film Festival, Taylor sees a woman set a new record of riding a bike at 183 mph (0:22). Nick visits Los Angeles, runs into a Hollywood ride out, and meets bike dancer Denis (4:42). Taylor will use any pretext for a bike errand, reveals his wife Marga (7:05). Money for protected…
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#2524 – Bike Protests, Bike Hating Mayors, the BFF, and Tubes V Tubeless
Taylor bikes to a No Kings protest, and meets a friend of the show (3:30). Our lawyer, James Pocrass, on what to do if the authorities take your bike at a protest-and how to avoid it (6:04). Original cohost and bike mechanic Jim Cadenhead on the plusses and minuses of tubeless tires (12:30). Sammy’s Law…
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#2523 – An LA Bike Advocate Rebuilds Her Home, NYC Reels From Anti-Bike Laws, and Northampton High Goes Bikepacking
LA Bike Advocate and Altadena Town Councilmember Dorothy Wong on rebuilding her home and her town after the LA fires destroyed both (2:17). The “Born To Be Wild” bikepackers of Northampton High School reflect on their annual 4-day tour of Western Massachusetts (13:29). New York City is dragging cyclists to criminal court for minor and…
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#2522 – Criminalization of Bikes in NYC and Biking in The Apocalypse
Listener email: the difference between bike packing and bike touring, and what handlebar bags and panniers to get (1:11). New York City has begun a policy of criminalizing minor traffic violations for cyclists. We talk to Carl Mahaney of Streetopia Upper West Side and Open Plans, and Josh Wood of the New York City Bicycle…
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#2521 – Bikepacking, AVs versus Cyclists, MAGA versus Ebike Battery Standards, and Bike Bills in California
Janice Walrafen loves Bike Talk on WGDR in Vermont – a listener email (1:09). Summer bikepacking! Nick’s Berkshires tour and Taylor’s cross country plans (3:05). Are Waymo robotaxis safer than humans? And when AVs hit cyclists or pedestrians, who’s liable? Our lawyer, Jim Pocrass, advises (6:49). The Consumer Protection Safety Commission regulates bikes and bike…
