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Bike Talk

BikeTalk

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

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00:58:00

Bike Talk - Freak Bikes, Traffic Violence, NHTSA's...

Bike Talk ·

2024/09/27

Freak Bikes the Movie, about LA Bike Kitchen founder Jimmy Lizama and his son on a bike tour of the European bike cities, screened in the Better Cities Film Festival in Detroit. Filmmaker Ryan Mekenian talks about his inspiration with Reo Ramsey, our Detroit correspondent and social ride leader who connects the movie to his bond over bikes with his own father. Bike Lawyer James Pocrass talks with us about the reasons for America's high traffic fatality and injury rates. Turns out it's unsafe

00:59:46

Bike Talk - Local Motion, Bike Bills, Hockey Stars,...

Bike Talk ·

2024/09/20

Taylor recaps his ride to Dodger Stadium. Val Cyr, Local Motion's Communications Specialist, on Vermont's great biking. America's Bike Mayor John Bauters on his run and riding for Alameda County Supervisor. Listener Emails: Tim Riley on giving up his cars because of Bike Talk, and motornormativity. Annie Pruitt on www.playgroundequipment.com/all-about-cycling/. Consumer Reports writer Keith Barry on his article about how pickup trucks are getting larger and becoming a hazard to pedestrians,

00:58:00

Bike Talk - Stop Victim Blaming (repost)

Bike Talk ·

2024/09/13

In this repost from March of 2024 Eddie Vargas, Grub Hub bike delivery worker, loads up groceries in Los Angeles.Bike Traffic report with Don Ward. A new study in the Journal for Transport and Land Use shows blaming individuals for traffic violence prevents systemic changes to US roadways. “There Are No Accidents” author Jessie Singer on the evolution of the accident, and how the auto industry has convinced the public that car crashes are due to “jaywalkers,” “nutty drivers,” and human error-

00:58:00

Bike Talk - Bikeable Nation (repeat, with new bike...

Bike Talk ·

2024/09/06

Last year's Tour de Vuelta coverage, featuring Sepp Kuss2:45 Brake maintenance advice from fixie rider, activist, and Los Angeles Metro Bikeshare mechanic Anne Marie Drolet. 3:19 Jeff Speck, author of “Suburban Nation” and “Walkable Cities,” on making cities walkable and bikeable. With Taylor Nichols. 7:50 Getting the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration to mandate Bicyclist Emergency Braking in deadly autonomous vehicles. With Ken McLeod, Policy Director of League of American

00:57:59

Bike Talk - Civil Obedience, Phantom Bikes, White...

Bike Talk ·

2024/08/30

Taylor decides on a new gravel bike. Winnipeg cyclists stage an act of civil disobedience, stopping legally in single file at a stop sign, to bring awareness of the need for a stop-as-yield policy or "Idaho Stop Law" for cyclists. With Patty Wiens, "Bicycle Mayor" of Winnipeg, and Hillary Rosentretter. 4:02 We talk to our lawyer, Jim Pocrass of Pocrass de Los Reyes in Los Angeles, about whether it's legal to ride two abreast in a lane. 16:55 News: Los Angeles will be car-free for the next

00:59:07

Bike Talk - CicLAvia, Hollywood Bike Lane, Detroit...

Bike Talk ·

2024/08/22

Taylor and Anne Marie saw their neighborhoods at human speed in Sunday's CicLAvia in Los Angeles. “Meet the Hollywoods” opened 7 miles to people, not cars, from East to West Hollywood.Anne Marie discovers Fan Girl, a women musicians themed café. 1:13 Taylor nervously rides Luke’s Penny Farthing far. 1:52 Vanessa, Ryan, and Victor share their favorite things about CicLAvia with Anne Marie. 5:38 The Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts reopens its bankrupt bikeshare with a new operator. A

00:58:41

Bike Talk - Bike Hate, Culture Wars, Ebike...

Bike Talk ·

2024/08/15

Anne Marie's bike trip to Universal Studios, Taylor's mountain trip, and Bikelash news.An unhinged speaker's threat to harass cyclists at a Glendale, Ca. City Council meeting could be used against him in court, say attorney Jim Pocrass and Kirsten Bladh, Streets For All’s Associate Director of State Policy, who posted the tweet that named the hater. 16:02 A report by Circulate San Diego finds that the California Coastal Commission opposes bike lanes to the beach and affordable housing. It’s

01:00:20

Bike Talk - Car Cost, Olympic Biking, The White Line,...

Bike Talk ·

2024/08/09

A parking ticket sets off another discussion about the cost of cars.0:16 Monterey, California Trolley driver Tim Riley writes about subsidized transit, and how bikers can go from Salinas to Monterey Bay for $2 round trip. 7:23 Biking in the Olympics - track, MTB, the works. 11:48 When rising bike race star Magnus White was killed by a drowsy driver, his parents, Jill and Michael White, started The White Line Foundation to make roads safer and change the sentencing laws for vehicular homicide

00:59:52

Bike Talk - Car Sinks, Vehicular Cycling, Blocked...

Bike Talk ·

2024/08/02

Taylor pays $1200 for his car's damper pulley, which leads to a discussion of how cars are money sinks and we need universal mobility. 0:23 A listener email from Berkeley resident Benjamin Fry rekindles a debate on "vehicular cycling." 6:20 Vehicular Cycling is part of the history of bike education. The Advocacy Director of Bike East Bay, Robert Printz, lays it down. Also, how Oakland unblocks bike lanes. 8:35 What gravel bike to buy, and where to ride gravel. A conversation with Taylor, who's

01:05:30

Bike Talk - Suing Cities for Blocking Bike Lanes,...

Bike Talk ·

2024/07/26

Taylor's Colorado bike trip included electronic shifting; also, practicing bike salutes.Can we sue cities over blocked bike lanes? Attorney James Pocrass answers in his Legal Moment. 6:54 What's more philosophical, road biking or commuting? Nick comes to Jesus Ilundáin, co-editor of Cycling: Philosophy for Everyone, for a tour of the mind. 17:10 The Conservative Heritage Foundation's outline for a Trump presidency, Project 2025, would mean no federal money at all for bike/ped or transit

00:58:00

Bike Talk - Riding for Redemption, Community, and...

Bike Talk ·

2024/07/19

Airing the grievances of bike haters can be an effective strategy as long as we're not equally crazy, says Charles Marohn, Strong Towns founder, in our webinar "Podcasting for Bike Advocates."0:40 Biking on ski slopes, shredding on single tracks, and other highlights of Taylor's family trip to Colorado and Utah. 2:55 Andy May returned to cyclocross racing less than a year after losing a leg. He's still riding and racing, and works for a company that makes prosthetics. 8:08 It's hot. Especially

01:01:41

Bike Talk - Bike Messagers

Bike Talk ·

2024/07/11

Gear Ratios Explained by Joe Lindsey and Anne Marie Drolet (advanced intermediate). How the Tour de France inspires Taylor Nichols to draft behind strangers-and how they react. 6:03 The symbolism of a bicycle in your dreams, according to "Dreamapp." 7:38 Two weeks into the Tour de France, and it's one of the most interesting and competitive races in years, according to Joe Lindsey, bike writer. 10:53 Are high profile bike sports good for active transportation advocacy? Also: wearing the MAMIL

01:00:03

Bike Talk - Let Freedom Ride

Bike Talk ·

2024/07/05

Anne Marie’s bike packing trip to Point Mugu State Park. The inexplicable bike hate of James Clarke in Glendale, California balanced by defenders of mode choice and street safety, Glendale Councilmember Dan Brotman and California Assemblyperson Laura Friedman. 5:25 Upcoming group rides in Detroit with guest Reo Ramsey, President of Detroit’s Motown Trailblazerz ride. 29:10 The Grand Fundo in Western Massachusetts and The All City Co-op Ride in Los Angeles 32:27 Anne Marie’s audio from LA’s

01:12:39

Bike Talk - Bike Church

Bike Talk ·

2024/06/28

Voices from CicLAvia in South Los Angeles, where public spaces and health were reclaimed through car-free streets.5:43 Cycling Past 50: how older adults will need to adapt to their changing cycling abilities with older adult mobility and wellness researcher and Executive Director of dblTilde CORE, Carol Kachadoorian. 22:47 Teaching adults to ride with Rob Kadota. 35:43 Racer and bikepacker Adin Maynard describes a route in the heart of Western Massachusetts he designed for

01:01:03

Bike Talk - Pedalpalooza

Bike Talk ·

2024/06/21

The Bicycle Film Festival in the Berkshires, with local organizers Nick Russo and Alison McGee. Also, Olympic mountain bike champion Lea Davison on her film "You Can't Do it Alone" on coming out and the Unbound gravel race. 2:03 What's Pedalpalooza? A festival of bike fun in Portland, 20 year volunteer organizer Megan Sinott explains. 10:56 Cyclists' Personal Injury Attorney Jim Pocrass on the problem of hit and runs. 20:45 How did the Netherlands get so bike friendly? Chris Bruntlett, author of

01:02:27

Families for Safe Streets Podcast

Bike Talk ·

2024/06/14

NY Governor Hochul's abrupt and catastrophic turnaround on congestion pricing leaves people who live in NYC with all the costs of cut-through traffic, and none of the money that would have funded transportation. Taylor, Nick and Anne Marie talk with journalist Charles Komanoff and Transportation Alternatives Communications Director Alexa Sledge.3:24 Taylor talks with Families for Safe Streets members who confront the preventable epidemic of traffic violence by advocating for life-saving changes

00:57:51

Bike Talk - The Art of Cycling

Bike Talk ·

2024/06/07

Voices from the West Hollywood Pride Ride.2:36 Can a victim of hit and run sue for PTSD? Los Angeles cyclist Aaron Lipstadt consults Jim Pocrass, a personal injury attorney specializing in bikes. 13:34 The Art of Cycling: Philosophy, Meaning, and a Life on Two Wheels, by James Hibbard, is about Western philosophy and the limits of rational thinking, being on track for the Olympics, and doping in elite sport. 23:28 Voices from a kids' Bike Rodeo by Safe Routes To Schools in the town of

00:57:59

Bike Talk - Killed by a Traffic Engineer

Bike Talk ·

2024/05/31

Taylor's European bike interviews: Rome "didn't get the memo" on safe streets for bicyclists, while Barcelona's Superblocks are awesome as advertised. 1:14 Wes Marshall shatters the delusion that science underlies our transportation system in a new book, "Killed by a Traffic Engineer." 12:50 Seattle gets its first protected, "Dutch-style" intersection; Winnipeg doesn't. Boardmember of Seattle Neighborhood Greenways and core leader of Queen Anne Greenways Mark Ostrow talks about Seattle bike

00:58:01

Bike Talk - Ride For Your Life

Bike Talk ·

2024/05/24

Revolutionaries Jimmy Lizama, Meg Wachter, and AnneMarie Drolet at the Ride of Silence in Los Angeles.3:22 A Great Tree Ride for Bike Week in Northampton, Mass. with All Bodies on Bikes' Jacob Sheppard-Saidel, All Out Adventures' Karen Foster, and Friends of Northampton Trails' Elana Huisman. 9:31 Bike Touring in the U.S.A with Adventure Cycling Tours Operations Specialist Corbett Hall. 14:40 Taking on California's Active Transportation Program Cuts in Sacramento with Jeanine Ward-Waller,

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Bike Talk - Trail Angels

Bike Talk ·

2024/05/17

Part time Bike/Bus only lanes are a suggestion not taken in Los Angeles, as shown in a video by Streets For All Founder Michael Schneider. Michael talks with Miriam Pinski, PhD, Transportation Researcher at Shared-Use Mobility Center, about why and what can be done. 0:27 Christina Uss, the author of “The adventures of A Girl Called Bicycle,” “A Few Bicycles More,” “The Colossus of Roads,” and other children’s books spins tales and fills tires at an Easthampton, Massachusetts library. 11:35 Dwan

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