https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/bike-talk/ webmaster@kpfk.org (Archive Manager) webmaster@kpfk.org (KPFK Admin) en-us Sat, 18 Apr 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_260418_060100biketalk.mp3 https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/2kpfk_260418_060100biketalk.mp3 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:01:00 -0700   2:53 A school bike bus is recognized by the Burbank, California City Council for promoting safe, active Transportation. With Alfonso Directo, Jr. Advocacy Director of Act-LA and Roosevelt Elementary School parent.

  9:40 Bike Films: “Major Taylor: Champion of the Race” earns National News & Documentary Emmy Award nomination.

10:28 “Changing Lanes,” a documentary about the conflict over a protected bike lane on McGuinness Boulevard in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Taylor talks with the Director of Changing Lanes, Ben Wolf. 

15:04 Listener Email: Julian disputes Asha Weinstein’s take on high powered bikes from Bike Talk’s 26/12 episode. 

18:25 Stacey’s (Charlie’s) News: Jersey City Approves First Protected Bike Lane in The Heights Along Franklin Street. The City of Detroit makes bike lane data available to all riders online. Local Cyclists Fund Their Own Bike Lane Sweeper as City Fails to Maintain Infrastructure. 

20:39 An urban planner running for the City Council of Glendale on safe streets and active transportation, Alek Bartrosouf.

32:50 The Spring Classics 2026 with Dane Cash of the Escape Collective. 

53:32 Coffee and bikes.

54:35 A bill to cap NY Citibikes at the price of a bus or subway ride by NYC Councilmember Lincoln Restler.]]> 3479 no Public Affairs - Local https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/2kpfk_260411_060100biketalk.mp3 https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/2kpfk_260411_060100biketalk.mp3 Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:01:00 -0700 Taylor plans a May bikepacking trip from San Francisco to Michigan. 

  5:15 A listener explains why she uses a backpack instead of panniers, and Tim Dyet’s review says “everyone gets a seat at the (Bike Talk) table.”

  8:04 The Safe Speeds Act, if passed, will require the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) to distinguish ebikes from illegal emotos. However, the CPSC, charged with protecting consumers from things like exploding e-bike batteries, was gutted by the Trump administration for regulating lithium ebike batteries. Caron Whitaker, Deputy Director of the League of American Bicyclists, explains. 

15:26 Stacey’s Charlie’s News: Federal legislation addresses e-moto issue. 85 bikes seized after authorities stop planned Bay Bridge takeover. 8-year-old girl on bicycle dies after colliding with car in Charlotte, NC, CMPD says. Guardian Bikes wants children’s bikes made in the U.S.A. — and tariffs against rivals. 

18:21 The Mamdani administration has reversed the Adams administration policy of criminalizing ebikes. Oonee bike storage founder Shabazz Stuart and Streetsblog NYC reporter Sophia Lebowitz put it in context. 

37:00 Terence Heuston spent ten years fighting for Sunset For All, a protected bike lane on the famous arterial Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. Now he’s burned out, because the city spends too much time seeking community input on data-supported street safety designs that save lives.]]> 3482 no Public Affairs - Local https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/2kpfk_260404_060100biketalk.mp3 https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/2kpfk_260404_060100biketalk.mp3 Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:01:00 -0700   April 4, 2026. 26/13 Bikeside at the National Bike Summit.

  2:34 Hands Off DC bike lanes, says the Washington Area Bicyclists Association in the face of the Trump administration’s intention to remove a key part of their bike network. Kalli Krumpos, Advocacy Director, gives WABA’s perspective.

13:36 Voices from the March 24-26, 2026 National Bike Summit in Washington, DC from bike messenger/reporter Joel Gwadz: Terry Lansdell, ED of Walk Bike North Carolina, Niles Barnes, Deputy Director of East Coast Greenway Alliance, Natasha Smith, Coordinator of Bike Walk Bowling Green in Kentucky, Patrick Martin, President of Bike ABQ in Albequerque, NM, Steven Hardy-Braz, a board member of BikeWalk NC, and Desiree Squire, Education Manager at Bike Durham in North Carolina.

23:22 Charlie’s News: Bike East Bay’s Celebrate Trails Day ride supports the Bay Skyway. Queensland may implement strict e-bike regulations. The T’s bus service will exceed pre-pandemic levels this spring. Emmanuel Grégoire has won the Paris mayoral election.

25:41 Los Angeles is finally adding 125 speed cameras.

27:53 Truck crash survivor Marianne Karth created the Stop Underrides Town Hall April 15 because she’s hoping lives will be saved by this commonsense legislation – already law in Europe – mandating sideguards on trucks. 

33:32 “Which bike should I buy?” Taylor gets answers to the eternal question for Gloria Ines, who’s in the market, from Battle Road Bikes owner Jim Cadenhead.]]> 3480 no Public Affairs - Local https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/2kpfk_260328_060100biketalk.mp3 https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/2kpfk_260328_060100biketalk.mp3 Sat, 28 Mar 2026 06:01:00 -0700   1:33 Taylor talks with Brent Muth at Ojai’s MOB bike shop and then at a farmer’s market with Annette, a member of the international nonprofit Cycling Without Age, which takes the elderly out for free bike rides. 

  9:33 The League of American Bicyclists’ National Bike Summit. 

10:18 Cambridge, Massachusetts has seen a 250% ridership increase over two decades, with a crash rate decrease. There will be a National Town Hall on April 15th for the Stop Underrides Act of 2026. Bike lanes next to the National Mall are set to be removed despite lower crash rates and faster car travel times. The NYPD will stop giving cyclists criminal summonses for minor offenses.

13:09 Listener Email: Terry Fitzgerald questions our “cyclists can do no wrong” approach, but gets Bike Talk stickers for a positive review on Apple.

16:05 A metastudy on how autonomous vehicles can be safer yet may increase Vehicle Miles Traveled and displace transit. With Farah Naz, University of Texas-Arlington, co-author of the study.

31:28 Bob Middlestaedt and Asha Weinstein Agrawal discuss the Mineta Transportation Institute report on ebikes and an e-moto “rogues gallery” of illegal ebikes.

49:34 The irrational fear of ebikes in Massachusetts and a Micromobility report by MassBike, with Galen Mook, a.k.a. “Mookmaster Bikes,” the Executive Director of MassBike, and friend-of-the-show bike shop owner/mechanic Jim Cadenhead.

54:59 The study showing biking may reduce dementia.]]> 3479 no Public Affairs - Local https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/2kpfk_260321_060100biketalk.mp3 https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/2kpfk_260321_060100biketalk.mp3 Sat, 21 Mar 2026 06:01:00 -0700 The cost of cars is skyrocketing.

  3:44 Listener emails: a request for Kevin Grishkot’s bike poem, and Stephen Bingham on House and senate bills mandating side underride guards on new trucks.

  6:37 Charlie’s News: a protected bike lane for Prospect Park in Brooklyn. The Magnus White Safe Streets Act would require auto-braking in new cars when cyclists are detected. Caltrans rips out already inadequate bike lanes in Oakland. Parisian bike friendly Mayor Anne Hidalgo will leave office, and the Mayoral election will decide whether safe streets are rolled back in Paris.

  8:38 NY Minute: NY Governor Hochul’s bill will lower driver insurance cost and payouts to crash victims to make it cheaper to drive.  With Streetsblog NYC Editor Gersh Kuntzman.

10:28 How new ebike laws will affect civil cases that arise from crashes. With James Pocrass.

17:00 The Adventure Cycling Association restructures.

32:25 Parked Bikes of New York, a photographic Instagram account by Rui Pereira.

39:10 Bike Friendly Universities MSU and University of Louisville. With Tim Potter and Justin Mog.

55:41 Mayoral contender City Councilmember Nithya Raman’s Great News for Los Angeles: A Griffith Park bike lane.]]> 3493 no Public Affairs - Local https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/2kpfk_260314_060100biketalk.mp3 https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/2kpfk_260314_060100biketalk.mp3 Sat, 14 Mar 2026 06:01:00 -0700 0:20 Taylor joins hundreds of Los Angeles bike people in the pre-dawn Marathon Crash Ride last Sunday to preview the 26 mile route of the 2026 LA Marathon. With Joe Borfo and Joni Yung.

  7:15 New Jersey’s anti-ebike law from New York and California points of view. With Justin Hu-Nguyen, Bike East Bay and Anne Savage, New York Bicycle Coalition.

16:05 A bill to require Automatic Emergency Braking in all U.S. cars, with Caron Whitaker, League of American Bicyclists. Check to see if your member has cosponsored the bill.

21:13 Charlie’s News: The Bicycle Film Festival is taking submissions. Trump’s attempt to end congestion pricing is deemed illegal. Volunteers survey sidewalks in Pittsburgh. In SF, Caltrain is placing heavy restrictions on which bikes can ride.

23:57 Resistance, Solidarity and Bicycles – bikes as protest in fascist Europe during World War Two and a vehicle of female empowerment. By Michela Grasso of the Urban Cycling institute.

38:43 Part 2 of Simon Parker’s Ride Across America: guns, dogs, trucks, and nice people.]]> 3480 no Public Affairs - Local https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/2kpfk_260307_060100biketalk.mp3 https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/2kpfk_260307_060100biketalk.mp3 Sat, 07 Mar 2026 06:01:00 -0800 Cars are in the way in LA.

  2:15 The recent Los Angeles Critical Mass was also a memorial for Regan Cole'''Graham and her newborn child Ophelia. With Damian Kevitt, Founder of Streets Are For Everyone.

  7:20 Thoughts on oil, geopolitics, and how we can rebuild the world with renewable energy and bikes.

  9:32 Charlie’s news: Maryland’s Stop Super Speeders bill passes in the House. California could face an eBike registration law. Roughly 3 in 4 young people in Wales support street redesign. Australia is taking advantage of deactivated rail lines to create cycling infrastructure.

11:48 A New Jersey law requires license and registration for all ebikes. It’s a Catch-22 because there’s no way to register ebikes in New Jersey. It’ll result in more mopeds and motorcycles, which can actually be registered, say Andrew Wilson, Executive Director of Bike Hoboken, and Tyler Newcomb, President of Bike Jersey City.

27:51 The California Bicycle Coalition is co-sponsoring SB 1167 to clarify e-bike definitions and stop deceptive marketing of e-motos, to keep what happened in NJ from spreading. With Kendra Ramsey, Executive Director of Calbike. 

33:07 The ramifications of riding an ebike that may not be legal, with Jim Pocrass. 

39:25 A Ride Across America: Small Towns, Big Issues and One Epic Adventure with author Simon Parker, Part 1.]]> 3412 no Public Affairs - Local