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Bike Talk

BikeTalk

We are a bike advocacy and culture podcast based in Los Angeles, Ca.

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00:58:01

Pushing Back on Bikelash (repeat from August of 2023)

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2025/07/06

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. www.calbike.org/talking-back-to-bikelash/ (13:20) RAGBRAI: The Great Iowa Fall Ride with “Shift” documentarians/Des Moines Register journalists Courtney Crowder and Kelsey Kremer, and RAGBRAIder Shem Bitterman, with Taylor. ragbrai.com/documentary/

00:57:59

#2525 We love LA, Deliveristas, Zohran for Bikes NYC,...

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2025/06/27

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 bike lanes in Denver was about to be spent on removing them, until the Mayor's Bike Advisory Council caught on. With Loren Hansen, Chair of the Denver MBAC (8:49). NYC Mayor Eric Adams' war on

00:58:08

#2524 - Bike Protests, Bike Hating Mayors, the BFF,...

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2025/06/19

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 was meant to allow New York City to reduce car speeds to 20mph. NYC Mayor Adams cynically used the law to justify limiting the speed not of cars, but ebikes. This outraged many, but none more

00:58:08

#2523 - An LA Bike Advocate Rebuilds, Northampton...

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2025/06/13

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 sometimes made up traffic infractions under a new anti-bike policy. Kevin Duggan, StreetsblogNYC journalist, has been doing in-depth reporting, and shares his

00:57:59

#2522 - Criminalization of Bikes in NYC and Biking in...

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2025/06/05

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 Messenger Association (7:08). The legality of criminalizing cyclists, with James Pocrass (28:09). In other news, a NYC Critical Mass to protest overpolicing cyclists, a study

00:58:09

#2521 - Bikepacking, AVs versus Cyclists, MAGA versus...

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2025/05/30

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 parts, and was working to standardize e-bike battery standards - until the Trump administration began trying to take away its status

00:57:57

#2520 - Learn to Ride, Bike to Work, and the 100%...

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2025/05/23

Nick's daughter Penny learned to ride on two wheels using the towel technique (1:50). Bike To Work Week with Mayor Chelsea Lee Byers in West Hollywood, Ca (7:33). Bike To Work Week in Northampton, Ma with Mayor Gina Louise Sciarra, Representative Lindsay Sabadosa, and All Bodies on Bikes organizer Jacob Sheppard-Saidel (11:44). The debate over Autonomous Vehicles' safety record versus cyclists and pedestrians continues, with data showing AVs "generally demonstrate better safety in most

00:56:58

#2519 - Judicial Defense of Bike Rights in Canada and...

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2025/05/16

Ontario Premier Doug Ford tried to remove Toronto's bike lanes, but Toronto bike advocacy organization Cycle Toronto and allies won a court injunction pausing the removal. Executive Director Michael Longfield discusses what it means (2:42). The City of Oakland denied liability for a cyclist's serious injuries due to bad pavement, arguing that the liability waiver the cyclist had signed with AIDS Lifecycle applied to the City. Last week, in Whitehead v. the City of Oakland, the California Supreme

00:58:07

#2518 NIMBYs, YIMBYs, QUIMBYs and Bike Comics

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2025/05/09

News: It's Bike Month! Also- an Ontario, Canada court may save Toronto bike lanes, Waymo says its AVs are 25x safer than human drivers for cyclists and pedestrians on the road, Trump's tariffs will devastate the bike industry, and Americans are losing interest in buying cars (1:47).The QUIMBY movement = Quality In My Back Yard, and it means high quality codes/laws/permitting/planning high quality buildings, streets, bike lanes and buses, say Norm Van Eeden Petersman, Strong Towns' Director of

00:58:07

#2517 Are You From Jersey?

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2025/05/01

StreetsblogLA Editor Joe Linton's suit to force LA Metro implement the city's bike plan, as required by Healthy Streets Los Angeles. With our Lawyer Jim Pocrass (3:40). The standoff between New York and the Federal government over congestion pricing, as told by Gersh Kuntzman (10:22). Jersey City's bike ecosystem and Bike JC's place in it. With Vice President Tony Borelli, Trustees Emmanuelle Morgan and Deidre Newman, and bike recycler Ankha (23:50).

00:58:09

#2516 - Up With Slow Streets, Crossings, and...

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2025/04/25

Amy, gravel rider (1:05). News: Street safety advocates call for protected bike lanes on California’s deadly Pacific Coast Highway. https://mailchi.mp/streetsforall/pch-master-plan-042025?e=efb877b7f5 The City of Sacramento will be the first in the Nation to use cameras on buses that detect cars parked in bike lanes. https://fox40.com/news/local-news/sacramento/automated-bike-lane-enforcement-launches-in-sacramento-first-in-the-nation/ Austin, TX is going to spend $80,000 to remove a two way

00:57:48

#2515 - Different Strokes

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2025/04/18

News: Healthy Streets LA, the ballot measure which requires Los Angeles to implement bike infrastructure every time city streets are repaved, is being ignored by the county's transportation agency, LA Metro. Taylor talks with the founder of Streets For All, Michael Schneider, who led the HLA campaign, and the Editor of Streetsblog LA, Joe Linton, who's now suing the city (1:33). It’s been 100 years since the Los Angeles city council passed the ordinance which said that if you’re walking you have

00:58:20

#2514 - Bike Vessels and Arbitrary Lines

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2025/04/11

April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's "Put the Phone Away or Pay" campaign emphasizes education and enforcement but not engineering. Our Lawyer, Jim Pocrass, shares his practice of suing distracted drivers as a deterrent (0:26).A driver was found guilty of Reckless Vehicular Homicide in the killing of 17 year old rising US cycling star Magnus White. She was asleep at the wheel (8:51). What to do now that USDOT intends to

00:58:08

#2513 State of the Union, Rebuilding a bike-oriented...

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2025/04/02

Listener Email: John Gibilisco on the Sisyphean undertaking of Omaha bike advocacy (1:40).#Teslatakedown (2:45). The MAGAS are cutting all federal funding for bike infrastructure but also reneging on grants to projects like Reconnecting Communities, which would address the harms of highways. With Yonah Freemark, a principal research associate in the Housing and Communities Division at the Urban Institute (4:05). Boston's bike friendly Mayor Wu is ripping out protected bike lanes to appease the

00:57:59

#2512 - Strong Towns and Fault Lines

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2025/03/26

Tesla’s polluting plants, Musk’s racist genealogy and the #Teslatakedown (1:53). Our new regime is anti-active transportation, so we check in with Strong Towns founder Charles Marohn for what we can do locally to make towns more bikeable and livable (7:17). Rochester University Campus Times writers Teddy Almond and Maya Brosnick debate NYC's congestion pricing (30:28). Robert Zaichkowski’s Bike Thought (54:17).

00:59:16

#2511 No Autocracy, yes BRT & Bike Share

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2025/03/19

Ontario's reactionary re-elected Premier, Doug Ford, aims to rip out Toronto's bike lanes despite his own experts' testimony that they work. Our correspondent Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher on the view from Toronto (2:31). The US DOT halts all active transportation funding that might reduce emissions or improve accessibility. James Pocrass, Los Angeles Bike Lawyer, gives his view (9:31). News: "Congestion Pricing is Dead...Long Live the King," declared trump's X post, referring to himself... But

00:53:30

#2510 Bike as Sport or Culture War Flashpoint

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2025/03/12

Taylor's day of service fixing bikes and teaching kids how to ride safely with Brett Atencio-Thomas, Active Costa Mesa, California's Transportation Coordinator. Brett tells about the Three Pronged approach to making a 21st century city (0:38). On February 25th, a group of cyclists in Boyle Heights were handing out "Know Your Rights" cards with information on what to do if approached by ICE. They were struck by a hit-and-run driver in a Kia sedan with the license plate 8GAN606, and the driver is

01:20:54

Bike Talk #2509 - The Firecracker, a Vigil, an Icon,...

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2025/03/05

LA Locals Taylor & Don saw the city like tourists on an Ebike Tour of Hollywood (0:22).Bike Director Kevin Wong on Chinatown's March 8-9 Firecracker Ride, the largest Lunar New Year Run, Walk, Cycling, and Dog Walk event in the US (4:59). Bike Indianapolis Advocacy Committee Chair Jakob Morales on the recent vigil and ghost bike placement for Dillan Lee Rogers (10:41). Jacquie Phelan, veteran mountain bike racer and way paver for women racers, reminisces about her glory days with original

00:58:09

Bike Talk 2508 - Freedom to Bike

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2025/02/27

Taylor’s science-backed brush with car-induced unhappiness (0:22)New York City congestion pricing will resist Trump’s attempts to kill it, predicts NYC Transportation Alternatives Communications Director, Alexa Sledge (3:25). Maybe the NYC toll program would fare better if we labelled them “Congestion tariffs,” suggests Listener Rick Bosacker (10:35). Congestion Pricing, climate change, and the dire situation in federal funding, a bike advocacy roundtable with Cynthia Rose, President of Santa

01:04:13

Bike Talk #2507 - Cars make us unhappy

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2025/02/21

On vacation in Fraser, CO, "the ice box of America," self-proclaimed "single track capital of the world," Taylor talks track with Ben Quinn, owner of Ice Box Mountain Sports (2:08).Our friend, Los Angeles bike advocate, cyclocross racer, and survivor of the Eaton fire, Dorothy Wong, on rebuilding Los Angeles (5:23). A California court's ruling that recreational cyclists can't sue the city when injured on city streets makes no sense, according to bike lawyer James Pocrass, and be careful when you

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