Category: Blog
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Freedom in Motion
3:53 on.soundcloud.com/wZMqaHere, Then, and When: How car companies sold us car-centric roads, and how autonomous cars and EVs will not solve that problem. With Peter Norton, author of “Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City,” and “Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving.” By Lindsay Sturman. 32:57 on.soundcloud.com/BkV3vShow Me the…
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No to Naysayers Podcast
Here for the Ratio: Anne Marie Drolet, a bikeshare mechanic in Los Angeles, breaks down gear ratios with Nick. Good Work: Kristen Sykes, a Holyoke, Massachusetts Bike Ped Committee and MassBike Board member, on what’s being done to make Holyoke friendlier to bikes. With Holyoke student Lily Hoffman Strickler. Picture if You Will: The Mayor…
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Push Back on Bikelash
Magnus White’s not-accidental car killing, No More Ghost Rides and Trash Panda Cycling’s LA bike calendar with Raphael Hernandez and cohosts. linktr.ee/trashpandacycling 13:07 on.soundcloud.com/UmnspFight Back: Talking Back To Bikelash with CalBike’s Kevin Claxton. www.calbike.org/talking-back-to-bikelash/ 35:44 on.soundcloud.com/Srv9mRAGBRAI: The Great Iowa Fall Ride with “Shift” documentarians/Des Moines Register journalists Courtney Crowder and Kelsey Kremer, and RAGBRAIder Shem…
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Politics and the Bicycle
Chutzpah: the supermajority on Vancouver’s City Council, ABC (“A Better City”), ripped out iconic Stanley Park’s protected bike lane to make room for drivers to enjoy nature through windshields. Lucy Maloney, Vancouver safe streets activist, says that ABC has its sights on other bike lanes. But there’s always hope. Then, cohosts Seamus, Taylor, and Nick…
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Save the Mamils
0:00 Trash Talk: A recent listener email objected to Bike Talk’s interview with Bike Mapper Jaimy Fisher because she didn’t use Strava data that included MAMILs (Middle Aged Men in Lycra). Original interview at: on.soundcloud.com/XEC1y. This, according to our listener, constituted “Trash Talking MAMILS.” Cohosts Taylor, Lindsay, Madeleine, Seamus & Nick do some introspecting, and…
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Bike Your Way
0:33 https://on.soundcloud.com/zpXmy Lucas Rowton, mountain bike racer and bike mechanic, gives some advice on chains and flats. 10:44 https://on.soundcloud.com/ixYFS LA Times Art and Design Columnist Carolina Miranda on her article, “Build less housing for cars and more for people,” with Taylor Nichols. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2023-07-07/build-less-housing-for-cars-and-more-for-people-how-cities-of-the-past-can-guide-the-future 26:00 https://on.soundcloud.com/bts1X State of the art thinking about safety from two Pittsfield,…
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Bikecentric
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Tactical Urbanism the Bicycle
0:29 on.soundcloud.com/xwxnTMoney Talks: Truck sideguards are proven to save lives; the League of American Bicyclists’ Deputy Executive Director Caron Whitaker tells cohost Taylor Nichols how the USDOT chose the trucking industry over lives. 10:33 on.soundcloud.com/Le7gyAdvocacy Roots: A recent Bike Talk forum covered the past, present, and future of Bike Advocacy in Los Angeles at the…
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Bike Advocacy Evolves
Transcript: bit.ly/3OmdSnE 0:29 https://on.soundcloud.com/xwxnT Money Talks: Truck sideguards are proven to save lives; the League of American Bicyclists’ Deputy Executive Director Caron Whitaker tells cohost Taylor Nichols how the USDOT chose the trucking industry over lives. 10:33 https://on.soundcloud.com/Le7gy Advocacy Roots: A recent Bike Talk forum covered the past, present, and future of Bike Advocacy in…
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No Status Quo
0:27 on.soundcloud.com/MuEKS Easy Does: Father’s Day was the New Orleans Big Easy Bike Festival. Details from Bayou Queens and Bayou Cruisers Bike Club President Hardy Elzy. www.facebook.com/groups/1765096107047285/ 7:58 on.soundcloud.com/3NNrL Decongest: congestion pricing nears approval in NYC; how and why with energy-policy analyst, transport economist and environmental activist Charles Komanoff. www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/opinio…k-congestion.html 43:40 on.soundcloud.com/FNeCs Easy Riders: a high school…
