https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/bike-talk/ webmaster@kpfk.org (Archive Manager) webmaster@kpfk.org (KPFK Admin) en-us Sat, 03 Oct 2026 06:01:00 -0700 60 Pacifica Archive archiver_9.0.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Public Affairs - Local KPFK Public Radio - Online Archives webmaster@kpfk.org Nick Richart no https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/2kpfk_261003_060100biketalk.mp3 https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/2kpfk_261003_060100biketalk.mp3 Sat, 03 Oct 2026 06:01:00 -0700   1:23 Taylor on how Brandon McNulty, super domestique, won the 2026 World Road Race Championships in Montreal to become the first American man to win the elite men’s road race world title in 33 years.

  5:36 Interviews from the Bicycle Film Festival before-party at King Kog bike shop in Brooklyn. With Isaac Andersen, Utility Cyclist, on how that’s ‘weird’ for an American.

10:32 Ralph Papillon, director of “Dawn Patrol,” a film exploring how cycling fosters friendship, confidence, and inclusivity for women and non-binary riders. 

13:44 Steve Vaccaro, NYC bike lawyer, on Mamdani’s proposed 15 mph limit on Central Park bikers.

19:13 And an interview with Bicycle Film Festival Director Brendt Barbur on keeping the BFF going since 2001. 

25:40 80 year-old Bob Tuttle talks to Taylor about riding an E-tricycle from Petaluma, California to San Diego, a distance of about 900 miles, in two weeks. 

42:25 News: 

Turin, Italy cyclists protest driver murders. 

Cyclists install their own bike lane at a Boston intersection where a cyclist was killed.

Toronto’s Critical Mass protests the Ford administration’s impending removal of the city’s biggest bike lanes.

More than 1,000 cyclists ride from Koreatown to downtown LA in protest against traffic violence.

45:14 NYC’s Vision Zero Reimagined plan, E-bike hearings, and Park Avenue redesign interpreted by Micromobility NYC organizer Miser, in conversation with Nick.]]> 3480 no Public Affairs - Local https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/2kpfk_260926_060100biketalk.mp3 https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/2kpfk_260926_060100biketalk.mp3 Sat, 26 Sep 2026 06:01:00 -0700   2:08 New bike rider Gloria Ines on her $55 bike from the Highland Park Bike Oven co-op.

  7:21 The cyclocross season is just beginning at Look Park in Northampton, Massachusetts with Northampton Cycling Club’s Junior Cyclocross series. New racer Penelope Richert and coach Tom Hoogendyke.

13:19 Taylor catches up with 71 year old Kay Schuster, who he met on his bike trip from San Francisco to Michigan, at her home in New Hampshire after her ride across the U.S. 

23:45 News:  
Viral video of car driving in Seattle bike/pedestrian trail
Orange County e-bike buyback draws big crowds
Second graders at Bryant Webster Dual Language School receive free bicycles
Chicora Elementary second graders receive new bikes and helmets
Oberlin College distributes free bikes to early decision applicants
Delhi government to provide free bicycles to 140,000 girl students
7,000 government school students get free bicycles in Nellore 

25:53 Stacey unpacks her trip to Copenhagen, the bikiest city in Europe.

30:21 The highs and lows of New York City from the Editor of Streetsblog NYC, Gersh Kuntzman.

36:57 A Week Without Driving creator Anna Zivarts on the October 1–8 challenge.

49:38 Stronger Montclair Facebook group admin Jon Wenz on biking and community in New Jersey.]]> 3480 no Public Affairs - Local https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/2kpfk_260919_060100biketalk.mp3 https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/2kpfk_260919_060100biketalk.mp3 Sat, 19 Sep 2026 06:01:00 -0700   3:45 Back to Taylor’s Barcelona trip, and a tour of bike and public transportation infrastructure including Superblocks (Superilles) with Silvia Casorran, who helped implement them in Barcelona. 

25:48 Author of the Washington Examiner article, “I thought bike lanes were ‘DEI.’ Then an SUV killed my father,” Chrissy Oakes, talks about finding common ground with Republicans on bike lanes and why the Left has a hard time accepting her as a safe streets advocate. 

36:51 Bike Talk listener Tim Dyet was inspired to ride part of the The 750-mile Empire State Trail to NYC by Taylor’s recent SF to Michigan bike tour. He finished, and here’s how it went. 

48:46 Streets Are For Everyone Director Damian Kevitt declares a traffic emergency in Los Angeles. Vision Zero was expired by the city last year, and there were 324 traffic fatalities – a 3.5 percent increase from the previous year.

49:36 Is it legal for lawmakers in Sacramento to obstruct Los Angeles’ attempts to make its streets safer by adding language to a bill targeting a protected bike lane on deadly Forest Lawn Drive? LA lawyer James Pocrass says maybe not.]]> 3480 no Public Affairs - Local https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/2kpfk_260912_060100biketalk.mp3 https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/2kpfk_260912_060100biketalk.mp3 Sat, 12 Sep 2026 06:01:00 -0700   2:30 Jonathan Hale of People’s Vision Zero at a “ghost tire” placing on Forest Lawn Drive in Los Angeles, to honor 70-year-old Bijan Yousefian, a victim of traffic violence who died in a fiery crash there.

  6:25 High School senior Ben Mangiafico talks about the bike ride he hosted recently to point out the dangerous spots on his route to school.

12:45 Dr. Timm Döbert and Leanna Carriere on their 9-month, 30,000km ride from Alaska’s High Arctic to Tierra del Fuego to follow the migration of Hudsonian Whimbrels, and Wings of Survival, the documentary about their journey.  

25:30 Bicycle Film Festival Director Brendt Barbur on the Festival’s 26 year history and this year’s offerings. 

40:06 Another bike film, The Cycle of Love (2025), is a documentary about a man who rode 6,000 miles from Delhi to Sweden in 1977 in search of a woman he believed was prophesied to be his wife. Director Orlando von Einsiedel talks with us about his film.

53:55 News: 
Berkeley sued over Hopkins bike lane plan
MIT professor dies of injuries after being struck by a driver while cycling on Memorial Drive
Folsom considers crackdown on e-bike wheelies, stunts and unsafe riding
Japan halves speed limit to 30km/h on all narrow city streets]]> 3502 no Public Affairs - Local https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/2kpfk_260905_060100biketalk.mp3 https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/2kpfk_260905_060100biketalk.mp3 Sat, 05 Sep 2026 06:01:00 -0700   2:45 Language was added to a bill targeting a much needed protected bike lane and traffic calming project on LA’s high speed Forest Lawn Drive, where there have been more than 95 crashes and 4 fatalities since 2013. The bill was paid for by Forest Lawn Cemetery donations, and it’ll be an issue in the LA Mayoral race, says Michael Schneider of Streets For All. 

12:19 LA Metro will pay some drivers to drive less in a new program, as the city looks toward a more car-light 2028 Olympics. LA Metro spokesperson Patrick Chandler gives the details. 

21:55 Streetfilms filmmaker Clarence Eckerson talks with Taylor about his work as an urbanist educator.

45:55 News: 
Pedestrian pronounced dead after Tour de Fat vehicle crash, 5 remain injured, in unknown condition
New Illinois law sets license, insurance requirements for e-bike riders
Newport Beach residents frustrated by e-bikes parked in front of their homes
Bill to strengthen walking and biking programs, AB 2168, headed to governor’s desk
Cyclists have crashed on Market Street’s rail tracks for 130 years. Why can’t SF fix them?

49:08 More eulogies from Bike Oven/ Killradio/ Bike Talk/ bike community documentarian and spirit-booster DJ Chickenleather’s memorial at the Highland Park Bike Oven.]]> 3480 no Public Affairs - Local https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/2kpfk_260829_060100biketalk.mp3 https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/2kpfk_260829_060100biketalk.mp3 Sat, 29 Aug 2026 06:01:00 -0700   2:10 Chickenleather, spirit and documentarian of the LA bike movement for decades, died last week. We bring you his words from 2010 on getting “normal” people to bike, engaging the youth, and volunteering at a bike collective. 

  7:12 Taylor drafts behind yet another stranger, Josep in Cataluña, Spain, and they talk afterward. 

12:25 Bike Talk listener Tim Dyet says he’s inspired by Taylor Nichols’ ride from SF to Michigan to do a 10 day ride of his own along the Empire Trail bike path in New York.

17:45 Team Samaritan riders Tom Schwein and David McKean aim to raise two million dollars with a Ride Across America for Catholic Charities to help fight the nation’s homeless epidemic.

33:00 Massachusetts Streetsblog reporter and editor Christian MilNeil on the elimination of a Boston bikeway by the Mayor Wu administration.

46:01 News: 
3 Cyclists Die in One Week in Hit-and-Runs in New York City.
Against Neighbors’ Wishes, Boston Streets Commissioners Cancel Planned Bikeway Near Day Square.
E-bikes, scooters, boards prohibited at all of Newport-Mesa Unified’s K-8 campuses. 
Como mayor bans bikes in city centre after being hit ‘by one of these beasts’.
LA Mayor hits brakes on needed bike lanes near Forest Lawn. Mayoral opponent Raman is slamming her for it.

48:39 Chickenleather’s memorial at the Bike Oven in Highland Park, Los Angeles.]]> 3480 no Public Affairs - Local https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/2kpfk_260822_060100biketalk.mp3 https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/2kpfk_260822_060100biketalk.mp3 Sat, 22 Aug 2026 06:01:00 -0700 Taylor rides Barcelona, and says it’s civilized.

  4:15 A Quebec court rules against Toronto’s famously successful protected lanes. Michael Longfield, Executive Director of Cycle Toronto, explains. 

15:28 NYC closes a 1 block gap in Ashland Avenue’s protected bike lane in Brooklyn, known as “Crashland” for the danger created when Mayor Adams’ corrupt administration blocked that part of the path. Streetsblog NYC reporters Emily Lipstein and Michael Duggan fill in the gaps. 

20:25 A fully funded safety improvement project on Forest Lawn Drive was stopped by LA Mayor Bass despite years of public planning, extensive community outreach, and documented safety concerns. Streets Are For Everyone ED Damian Kevitt breaks it down.

26:37 News:
Driver Hits 11, Kills Two College Cyclists in Tennessee'''.
The car killing of British rider Fin Tarling during Friday’s stage of the Volta a Portugal.
'''Bike-hating Ontario Premier Doug Ford wins court battle to strip Toronto of its main downtown bike lanes.
London’s Cycleway network grows five-fold in decade to 450km'''.

28:44 Riders of the “friendly 8” in Halcyon, New Jersey, Kimberly Organo-Solo and Charles Sontag, with ride leader Lo Sontag, on why they ride and don’t ride more. 

39:19 Owner of Allez LA bike shop in Los Angeles, Kyle Kelley, whom interviewer Jim Cadenhead calls “the most famous fixie foo that ever was”.

42:40 Erasure poetry from bike hate mail submissions by Liza Birch, a Rhode Island bike advocate.]]> 3051 no Public Affairs - Local