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Saturday, January 3, 2026 6:01 am
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| Bike Talk #2052 - Best of 2025
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A sample of the interviews that made Bike Talk Bike Talk in 2025:
0:38 Lucy Maloney, bike advocate turned council member in Vancouver.
13:56 Zohran Mamdani interviewed by micro-mobility organizer “Miser” when Zohran ran for Mayor.
24:37 Black Girls Do Bike/Anjoleah Daye on BGDB in Los Angeles.
37:23 Sophia Lebowitz on the problem of illegal ebikes, or emotos.
45:18 Jonathan Hale on painting DIY crosswalks in Los Angeles.
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Saturday, December 13, 2025 6:01 am
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| Bike Talk #2549 - Moral Panic Around Ebikes
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0:19 Our Mission Statement, reviews, a listener email, and please take our survey!
4:57 Charlie’s News: New bike lanes in Boston increase bike trips and decrease car traffic; Astoria, Queens rips up a partially installed bike lane due to bikelash; Iowa City free bus ridership and service is up, emissions down; FSA/HSA pre-tax $ can be put towards a bike – with a doctor’s note.
7:28 Montreal plows snow from bike lanes and sidewalks. Why can’t every snowy city? We ask Patrick Murphy of O The Urbanity.
14:50 A round table on the NY Times Article “The Dangers of Ebikes” with our New Yorker/Marin County panel: Warren Wells, Policy and Advocacy Director of the Marin County Bicycle Coalition; Carl Mahaney, Director of Streetopia Upper West Side; Sophia Lebowitz, writer of “The ‘Problem’ With E-Bikes? The Super Fast Illegal Ones,” and Miser, organizer of the subreddit MicromobilityNYC.
42:25 A bike tour of Japan by Aaron Lipstadt.
54:57 Bill Walton’s Bike Thought.
55:22 Stacey’s Bike Thought.
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Saturday, December 6, 2025 6:01 am
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| Bike Talk #2548 - Bike Rights
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3:36 Bike books for Christmas – with the editors of Microcosm’s “They Ride at Night” anthology of Queer, Feminist, Fantastical Bicycle Halloween Stories, Summer Jewel Keown and Elly Blue.
13:15 Queens City Couriers delivers anything by bike in Buffalo, New York. Rebecca tells us about that, a bike messenger memorial, and how being a bike courier compares to being a Marine, which she also has been.
25:55 Charlie’s News: NYC council candidates funded by Uber, women transportation leaders, bike lane sweepers, and last year’s Chicago and Philadelphia traffic casualty stats.
27:14 Police bias, media bias, and bike law with Jim Pocrass.
36:29 How to get in shape for a bike tour, the latest in our bike tour series with Josh Bowden of Adventure Cycling. And drop in to our December 16, 4pm Pacific Instagram event with Adventure Cycling!
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Saturday, November 22, 2025 6:01 am
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| Bike Talk #2546 - Bikes For All
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2:08 Taylor bikes in the rain to LA Bikefest to talk with LA Bicycle Advisory Committee’s car-free Jennifer Gill and to World Day of Remembrance for Traffic Victims with Rob Kadota and Streets Are For Everyone founder Damian Kevitt.
10:50 News: LA City Controller makes an app where you can see the where LA budget goes, the USDOT declares it won’t fund biking, walking, or trains, the LA River bike path design and timeline is contested, there’s an aluminum velodrome in Tucson, and a Wyoming and Idaho bike/ski trail would complete the 180 mile Greater Yellowstone Trail network.
15:48 Email: “Skirting the Negativity Pit;” Rick Bosacker, MD on the disconnect between the positivity of cycling and the negative responses from online trolls. Rick writes that bike advocates may fail to speak out because of “pluralistic ignorance,” which AI defines as a social phenomenon where individuals privately disagree with a perceived group norm but remain silent, believing their own views are a minority.
17:48 Bike Touring and camping gear and bike recommendations from Josh Bowden of Adventure Cycling.
38:55 The Bike Talk survey.
40:48 The Hierarchy of Cycling Needs: Charlie interviews Lisbon researcher Rosa Felix on her modeling of people’s self-assessed propensity to bicycle.
51:58 Bikes For All volunteer Craig Smith introduces the bike charity that gives bikes to people who need them.
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Saturday, November 15, 2025 6:01 am
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| Bike Talk #2545 - Bikes Win
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3:11 Email: Reese, a listener, says we shouldn’t assume conservatives don’t listen to Bike Talk, like Nick said in the previous episode. We all agree: biking embodies values everybody can and should get behind.
6:32 Charlie’s News: The City of Malibu approves safety plans for deadly PCH, a Queens, NY City Council seat is kept by an anti-bike zealot, Ontario Premier Doug Ford seeks to repress debate on his speed camera ban, and California’s ebike incentives are swapped for a car trade-in program.
9:11 A Dia De Los Muertos vigil “remembering fallen ridazz” at the Bike Oven in Los Angeles, with Joe Borfo.
11:25 Los Angeles bicycle casualty statistics and what we are doing about it, with our LA bike lawyer James Pocrass.
17:50 House Transportation Committee Chair S. Graves says “we’re not gonna be spending money on murals and train stations or bike paths or walking paths” in the Transportation Reauthorization Bill, which determines spending for the next 5 years. League of American Bicyclists Deputy Executive Director Caron Whitaker walks us through that. Also, the League’s upcoming Bike Summit.
22:34 A New York City transportation advocates panel with Alexa Sledge, Communications Director of Transportation Alternatives, Streetsblog NYC Editor Gersh Kuntzman and writer Sophia Lebowitz, Streetopia Upper West Side Director Carl Mahaney, and veteran NYC safe streets activist Charles Komanoff on their hopes for a Mamdani Mayoral administration.
49:45 Bikes were winners in Minneapolis elections, says Our Streets Minneapolis board President Laura Mitchell.
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Saturday, November 8, 2025 6:01 am
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| Bike Talk #2544 - Reform the System
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1:58 Emails: the bike life of musical director Tim Dyet and Steve Weyland’s counsel to not blame delivery apps for lawbreaking ebikers in NYC (congratulations NYC by the way).
7:25 Faulty bike infrastructure and a drunk driver blamed for deaths of cyclists Kerry Bonner, 25, and Egor Popov, 31 at Vigil and response by Patty Wiens, Bike Mayor of Winnipeg.
10:04 Charlie’s news: Carbrained NYC Councilmember Vicky Paladino (had) a challenger, FDNY urged to make safer streets, Malibu’s Pacific Coast Highway safety makeover TBD, Kilian Jornet rides to 72 US summits in 31 days.
12:20 A children’s book about Annie Cohen Kopchovsky, AKA Annie Londonderry, who rode her bike around the world in 1885, is banned by the Pentagon for violating Trump’s DEI policy. With author Mary Boone.
24:28 Northampton’s 34th annual Cyclocross event with Penny, Chloe, and JAM fund racers Tanya Boulanova and Ellen Noble.
34:51 Bike LA’s Bikefest with Bike LA Director Eli Akira Kaufman.
45:45 Planning Taylor’s bike tour, Part III, with Josh Bowden of Adventure Cycling.
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Saturday, November 1, 2025 6:01 am
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| Bike Talk #2543 - Ebikelash
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3:00 Charlie’s News: NYC sets a 15mph limit on ebikes, a new Seattle bike lane also works for trucks, ultralight emergency-response cargo bikes, and the impact of tariffs on the bike industry.
4:26 A No Drive Halloween campaign.
5:08 Ontario, Canada Premier Doug Ford is trying to ban speed cameras and bike lanes in an all out war on safety and active transportation – but there’s active resistance from Dr. Carrie Mitchell, an associate professor at the University of Waterloo who started a petition calling for the speed camera ban to be reversed.
13:20 The classifications of ebikes in New York City is confusing, and riders are paying the cost. Nick talks with Sophia Lebowitz about her article in Streetsblog NYC – “The ‘Problem’ With E-Bikes? The Super Fast Illegal Ones”.
26:46 A brief on the legal implications of misleading ebike categories with James Pocrass, Personal Injury attorney.
32:04 NYC Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is questioned on ticketing ebike riders in a debate with opponents Cuomo and Sliwa, who want more ticketing, but Mamdani’d rather look at incentives to speed from food delivery app companies like DoorDash and Grubhub.
34:03 Planning Taylor’s bike tour, Part 2: logistics and planning. With Josh Bowden, Experiences Operations Specialist of Adventure Cycling.
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Saturday, October 25, 2025 6:01 am
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| Bike Talk #2542 - Cycling Solidarity
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0:23 Bike Talk Listener Survey.
1:42 People on bikes are “Nature’s Most Efficient Traveler,” reveals Scientific American.
3:43 Charlie’s News: League of American Bicyclists’ Advocacy Toolkit, Calbike’s Independent Electric Mobility Council, and Portland’s emergency World Naked Bike Ride.
5:30 MAGA Speaker Mike Johnson calls the World Naked Bike Ride “the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet,” inspiring a Kermit The Frog song on the Jimmy Kimmel show.
7:44 Cycling Solidarity buys out vendors targeted by ICE in Chicago and distributes the food to hungry people by bike. We talk with Rick Rosales, AKA “Captain Jack Sharrow,” a Cycling Solidarity organizer and Critical Mass rider.
14:26 Women Changing Cities is a book on women leaders shaping their cities “From Paris to Bogota, Manila to Montreal… reclaiming streets, reimagining mobility, and designing safer, more inclusive public spaces.” Vancouver leader and bike activist Lucy Maloney interviews co-author Melissa Bruntlett in the second part of last week’s interview by Diane Alisa.
35:36 Taylor plans a bike tour from San Francisco to Michigan with Josh Bowden, Adventure Cycling Experiences Operations Specialist.
52:32 Coffee on a cargo bike with Adrian of Satellite Coffee.
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Saturday, October 18, 2025 6:01 am
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| Bike Talk #2541 - Countering Car Culture
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0:19 Bike tech: Dynamo lights and pocket compressors.
4:21 Charlie’s News.
6:51 Two authors on what we’ve lost by making kids car dependent: author of A Love Letter to Suburbia Diane Alisa interviews co-author of Curbing Traffic Melissa Bruntlett on her chapter, The Child-Friendly City.
22:34 The delights of a Slovenian bike tour with Hour Away guide Nejc Peternelj and Taylor’s brother John & Sister in Law Alice, who took the tour by ebike.
43:18 Bike Ped Committee Chair Kristen Sykes interviews Holyoke, Massachusetts Mayor Joshua Garcia about countering car culture with complete streets on the 3rd annual Holyoke Mayoral ride.
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Saturday, October 11, 2025 6:01 am
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| Bike Talk #25.40 - The Deadly Status Quo
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2:04 Ride For Your Life is a Washington, D.C. memorial ride in honor of Sarah Langenkamp, whose husband, Dan, worked to pass a law protecting cyclists in her name after she was killed riding in a bike lane. Taylor talks to Dan Langenkamp.
18:35 After Bike Talk thinker Stacey Randecker was hit while riding, we asked why personal injury lawsuits take so long to pay out. Our lawyer, Jim Pocrass, tells all.
24:40 Charlie’s Bike News.
27:05 A report called “The Powerless Brokers” by Circulate San Diego finds “California can’t build transit.” Lindsay talks to Circulate SD CEO Colin Parent.
39:43 NYC bill Intro 1138 would ban parking within 20 feet of street corners, “daylighting” intersections so drivers and other road users can see what’s coming…but NYC’s DOT exaggerated the parking that would be lost, Upper West Side Council Member Gale Brewer pulled her support for the bill, and now its passage is in danger. All for the love of parking, explains Streetopia Upper West Side Director Carl Mahaney.
46:53 Ride The Vines is a Temecula, California wine region cycling event that supports charities, schools, and bike safety. Taylor talks with Gary Oddi and Ernie Castro about the ride.
54:39 Stacey’s Bike Thought.
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