California by Bike – Segment Host Charlie Gandy gives an update from the California Bicycle Coalition with the exciting news for May as National Bike Month on how California jumped 10 spots to #9 in the state ranking by the League of American Bicyclists. This truly impressive improvement came via some very important changes with Caltrans mindset and adopting the NACTO guide, the upcoming grant round from Caltrans for Active Transportation for cities across the state with a May 21st deadline, the passing of the 3 foot safe passing bill, and much more. He also has a fascinating personal story of how the Vista Bike Blvd. in Long Beach has inspired a local Long Beach mother to re-imagine how her family gets to school, shops and has fun.
Mindfulness + the Bike – Segment Host Kellie Morris shares her thoughts on the need to officially begin a “Civil Streets Conversation for California” starting with getting bicyclists of all stripes to come together and get along better as a political force rather than staying in their own individual camps and mindsets. Sharing own personal experience of moving from her time as an athletic road cyclist to someone who’s life was changed dramatically when she was diagnosed with Connective Tissue Disease and has since learned to better manage this chronic pain condition via riding her recumbent bike daily for errands, meetings and exercise.
Stylish by Bike – Segment Host Melissa Balmer shares some of the latest examples from ads in leading style magazines like Los Angeles Magazine, Vogue, and others illustrating how much the bike is moving into the mainstream media to showcase vibrant, fun, sexy, healthy living. Melissa is passionate that here in California especially we have an opportunity to be inspired and harness this momentum to move the bike from a prop to a true tool for urban optimism by looking for collaborative opportunities between bike advocacy and the style leaders and creative at California companies like Levi’s, the Gap, Banana Republic to help us increase bike ridership.
Women Talk Bikes:
Gwen Urey, who teaches urban & regional planning at Cal Poly Pomona, focuses on bike safety. Shanon Muir, the Active Streets L.A. Initiative Coordinator of the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition, focuses on community engagement around infrastructure in south LA.
Somer Waters and his apprentice, Kat Bear, talk about their bike-transported electrical workers’ co-op, Pacific Electric; its origins as a sustainable business, the values of permaculture & the Art of War, what it’s like to transport hundreds of lbs. of equipment by bike, what gears haul best, and how they plan to electrify their bikes to haul more equipment farther. Recorded at the LA Ecovillage, on the road, and at Cafe Tropical on new mobile equipment—please excuse overly hot mic, it’s experimental. If you have recording tips, please advise.
Colin Bogart, LA County Bicycle Coalition Education Director, Hosts LACBC’s Regional chapters: UCLA Bicycle Coalition and USC Bike Coalition, with Hyeran Lee, Dan Rodman, Tyler Watson, Mathew Gonzalez, and Roger Pardo. With a call-in from Cynthia Rose of Santa Monica Spoke – a chapter of LACBC.
1st: Pedal Love’s Melissa Balmer and Charlie Gandy; then, #WomenTalkBikes co-hosts Daniella Alcedo and Maria Sipin host a special live edition! Their special guests are Dayna Crozier of the Bicycle Film Festival, Andrea Denike Martinez of Bodacious Bike Babes, and Heidi Zeller of CicLAvia. Listeners call in live!!! Make sure you’re following all of us on Twitter: @BikeTalKPFK @PedalLove, @DDelevens, @ahealthydesign
00: – Rebecca Gundzik talks about Car-Free SFV, 14:05-Cyclist advocate/race promoter Dorothy Wong talks about her work with students, 22:00- KIND/Bicycle Film Festival promoter Corin, 35:24-Kathryn Namey, Kind/BFF & Ciclavia Ambassador, 39:50-Mr. Evans, Damien Kevitt’s Uncle, and Don, a Father of a hit & run victim, at Critical Mass/Finish the Ride Candlelight Vigil 3/28/14, 43:21-Candlelight Vigil with April Snow, 51:36- Damien Kevitt and his mother, Michelle
Damien Kevitt discusses the hit-and-run incident in which he was dragged ¼ of a mile at 55mph, and “Finish The Ride,” which was born out of it, with Assemblyman Mike Gatto’s (43rd Assembly District) Communications Director, Justin Hager. Gatto calls in with some info on his proposed legislation to suspend hit-and-run drivers’ licenses for at least 6 months. with JJ Hoffman, Development & Events Director for the LA County Bicycle Coalition.
Stylish by Bike hosted by Melissa Balmer – we catch up with Janet Lafleur of Silicon Valley who writes Pedal Love’s “One Woman. Many Bikes” blog and her own “Ladyfleur” website. and hear about her adventures at a bikestyle photo shoot for the San Francisco Chronicle and why style and fashion are such important tools in normalizing bicycling for the public.
California by Bike hosted by Charlie Gandy – Charlie talks with Jim Brown, Executive Director of the Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates on what’s new in bicycling at the state capitol and then Jim stays on and talks with us about a subject near and dear to his heart…
Mindfulness + the Bike – this segment will be hosted by Kellie Morris of Pedal Love’s “We All Ride Bike” blog in the future, but for this first segment Melissa, Nick Richert (BikeTalk’s founder and host) and Jim Brown talk about just what the heck mindfulness is and why it’s key not only to safe bicycling, but to living a happier, more healthy life.
#WomenTalkBikes hosted by Daniella Alcedo and Maria Sipin – in this second #womentalkbikes show we get to know our talented young hosts, and the types of issues and concerns they have as women bicyclists that will be covered in upcoming segments as well as the questions followers submitted on twitter!
Women Talk Bikes was created to let women from different biking backgrounds come together, share their roles in the bicycling community and empower others to be active and involved using their bikes. The show, while fun and lighthearted, also shed some light on some of the issues women face while cycling.The hashtag #womentalkbikes was created to get people to interact with the panel using social media. This show was designed to introduce the diversity of different bicycling styles, to meet new faces and inspire other women to get on their bikes! Below are the bios of the women who participated in the show and their work and involvement in the bicycling community throughout Los Angeles County. A big thank you goes out to the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition for donating their monthly time slot to this show.
Melissa Balmer is the Editor of Pedal Love and Director of Women on Bikes California. A writer, media relations specialist and speaker Melissa Balmer’s personal mission is to bring the connecting power of beauty, style and personally engaging storytelling to showcase the bike as a tool for optimism. During the show she talked about the current Active Living Plugged in Trainings and encourages all women to attend this training
Lauren Grabowski is the bicycle and pedestrian planner for the UCLA Prevention Research Center and is working on the current bicycle plan for the ICty of Carson. She encourages everyone to attend the 2nd Annual Tour de Carson for Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced Riders on Saturday, May 10th.
Hyeran Lee is the Advocacy Chair of the UCLA Bicycle Coalition a regional chapter of the LACBC. She is a graduate student in Master of Urban Planning in UCLA. She has been an intern at LACBC since 2012 and helped organizing a number of outreach campaigns throughout the county. Her love affair with two wheels started in Japan where cycling was deeply integrated in daily life and is so today in LA.
Susannah Lowber created the She Wolf Attack Team (SWAT): Echo Park Bike Posse a site where other women can post rides that are going on throughout the area. This year Susannah will be participating in the AIDS Life Cycle ride for the first time. Read all about her efforts and support her cause here. Susannah explains the awesomeness of owning a Buff during the show.
Andrea Denike Martinez created fun Bodacious Bike Babes and leads rides to new and exciting destinations throughout Los Angeles. She is involved in her community by being part of the Los Angeles Bicycle Advisory Committee working in Council District 13 urging for bicycle infrastructure and improvemnt. Photo Credit belongs to Stephen Roullier.
Siobhan writes the popular Braking the Limit. She created and hosts the exciting Women’s Bike Brunch where women can come together discover their city and have brunch. She is part of and active the the Bike Kitchen and encourages everyone to learn how to do basic bike repairs.
Maria Sipin promotes the joys and benefits of bicycling as a blogger for Pedal Love, a project of Women on Bikes California, is on the advisory board for Multicultural Communities for Mobility, League Cycling Instructor from the League of American Bicyclists. She champions the importance of increasing the skills and confidence levels for bicyclists of all ages. With the username @ahealthydesign, she tweeted her way into advocacy and shares her everyday multimodal commuter experience through photos, captions, and emojis.
Laura Torres is active in Multicultural Communities for Mobility (MCM) Through her involvement with MCM Laura’s involvement is twofold, it is grassroots driven with the end goal of creating systemic change; a change that will lead to an increasing the number of cyclists and improved infrastructure for cyclists and pedestrians.
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