Bike Talk
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A weekly radio podcast dedicated to bikes as transportation, at https://biketalk.org/
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26/06 Solidarity
Listener Sean in Montana writes a good review for stickers.
St. Paul, Minnesota rider and cartoonist Andy Singer drops in virtually to talk about the recent Alex Pretti memorial ride (1:09).
A spe
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So much. @shabazzstuart.bsky.social @nyc.streetsblog.org @streetsblogla.bsky.social soundcloud.com/biketalk/260...
2605 Our Streets
Taylor and Nick agree that scarves are for everyone.
Parker S rode in the Minneapolis Alex Pretti memorial ride 1/31 and shares what it was like (6:52).
Listener Rick Bosacker writes that bike rides
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Alex Pretti rides and all weather bikers @lauragmitchell.com @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social @pattybikes.com @mommypedals.bsky.social @bestsidecycling.com
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26/04 One of Us
Alex Pretti, murdered by ICE in Minneapolis, was a bike rider. Laura Groenjes Mitchell of Our Streets Minneapolis and Brett Macgraw of the West Metro Active Transportation Alliance share a multi-city
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February 4, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Alex Pretti rides and all weather bikers @lauragmitchell.com @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social @pattybikes.com @mommypedals.bsky.social @bestsidecycling.com
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Some photos from the Chicago memorial ride for Alex Pretti, where lots of folks came out in solidarity with similar rides across the country.
Organized by @babski.bsky.social and @bikegridnow.org, with remarks from Kyle Lucas from @betterstreetschicago.org
Organized by @babski.bsky.social and @bikegridnow.org, with remarks from Kyle Lucas from @betterstreetschicago.org
January 31, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Some photos from the Chicago memorial ride for Alex Pretti, where lots of folks came out in solidarity with similar rides across the country.
Organized by @babski.bsky.social and @bikegridnow.org, with remarks from Kyle Lucas from @betterstreetschicago.org
Organized by @babski.bsky.social and @bikegridnow.org, with remarks from Kyle Lucas from @betterstreetschicago.org
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The Alex Pretti ride was more of a ride than I'd anticipated. It was very good to be in community with all sorts of riders, but I was mentally prepared for cruising through the Mission shouting, not hoisting my chunk up 1000 feet of elevation in Seacliff on my 8-spd .
February 1, 2026 at 3:30 AM
The Alex Pretti ride was more of a ride than I'd anticipated. It was very good to be in community with all sorts of riders, but I was mentally prepared for cruising through the Mission shouting, not hoisting my chunk up 1000 feet of elevation in Seacliff on my 8-spd .
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I ❤️ Minneapolis
This ride was incredible, especially our interactions with folks at the memorials and with neighbors cheering on from their windows/porches.
ICE out, now.
This ride was incredible, especially our interactions with folks at the memorials and with neighbors cheering on from their windows/porches.
ICE out, now.
January 31, 2026 at 10:26 PM
I ❤️ Minneapolis
This ride was incredible, especially our interactions with folks at the memorials and with neighbors cheering on from their windows/porches.
ICE out, now.
This ride was incredible, especially our interactions with folks at the memorials and with neighbors cheering on from their windows/porches.
ICE out, now.
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📰 BIG WIN for #Deliveristas — featured in @MotherJones by @nlanard!
@NYCMayor, @helloDCWP & the organizing power of @LosDeliveristas just secured $5M back in workers’ pockets + @UberEats will reinstate up to 10K wrongly deactivated deliveristas.
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@NYCMayor, @helloDCWP & the organizing power of @LosDeliveristas just secured $5M back in workers’ pockets + @UberEats will reinstate up to 10K wrongly deactivated deliveristas.
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Mamdani announces new settlement securing millions for delivery workers
More than $5 million will be distributed to roughly 50,000 workers who were underpaid by app companies.
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January 31, 2026 at 10:48 PM
📰 BIG WIN for #Deliveristas — featured in @MotherJones by @nlanard!
@NYCMayor, @helloDCWP & the organizing power of @LosDeliveristas just secured $5M back in workers’ pockets + @UberEats will reinstate up to 10K wrongly deactivated deliveristas.
Read👇🏾
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
@NYCMayor, @helloDCWP & the organizing power of @LosDeliveristas just secured $5M back in workers’ pockets + @UberEats will reinstate up to 10K wrongly deactivated deliveristas.
Read👇🏾
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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At the Oakland Ride for Alex Pretti today. In memory of one our own, fallen but not forgotten.
ICE Out.
ICE Out.
January 31, 2026 at 6:34 PM
At the Oakland Ride for Alex Pretti today. In memory of one our own, fallen but not forgotten.
ICE Out.
ICE Out.
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Big turnout in Fort Collins for the Alex Pretti ride.
January 31, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Big turnout in Fort Collins for the Alex Pretti ride.
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"We can do both!!!"
OK but we don't; we only do the significantly less effective victim blaming, not changing infrastructure or policy, drivers not having to change or even consider their behaviour one.
OK but we don't; we only do the significantly less effective victim blaming, not changing infrastructure or policy, drivers not having to change or even consider their behaviour one.
The reason why cyclists and pedestrians push back against these types of campaigns is not because we think visibility is bad (I wear hig-viz!), but because it's victim blaming that diverts attention from the real issues: dangerous drivers and poor infrastructure
“Where the built environment separates human skin and bone from lorries, cars, and buses, there is no need for our frantic striving to make fragile bodies hyper-visible”
January 27, 2026 at 8:35 PM
"We can do both!!!"
OK but we don't; we only do the significantly less effective victim blaming, not changing infrastructure or policy, drivers not having to change or even consider their behaviour one.
OK but we don't; we only do the significantly less effective victim blaming, not changing infrastructure or policy, drivers not having to change or even consider their behaviour one.
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On Saturday we ride for Alex Pretti
1:00pm at Washburn Fair Oaks Park
From Angry Catfish:
“We're asking folks to host rides and come together. Bike shops and non-profits, cycling orgs and alt cycling collectives, city and rural. We are many but we stand together as one.”
1:00pm at Washburn Fair Oaks Park
From Angry Catfish:
“We're asking folks to host rides and come together. Bike shops and non-profits, cycling orgs and alt cycling collectives, city and rural. We are many but we stand together as one.”
January 26, 2026 at 7:20 PM
On Saturday we ride for Alex Pretti
1:00pm at Washburn Fair Oaks Park
From Angry Catfish:
“We're asking folks to host rides and come together. Bike shops and non-profits, cycling orgs and alt cycling collectives, city and rural. We are many but we stand together as one.”
1:00pm at Washburn Fair Oaks Park
From Angry Catfish:
“We're asking folks to host rides and come together. Bike shops and non-profits, cycling orgs and alt cycling collectives, city and rural. We are many but we stand together as one.”
New Yorkers' hopes for 2026 in bikes as transit, plus Taylor's flat tire and traffic at LAX @shabazzstuart.bsky.social @nyc.streetsblog.org @streetopia.bsky.social @misernyc.bsky.social soundcloud.com/biketalk/260...
26/02 Hopes
Bike Mechanic Jim Cadenhead consults with Taylor about fixing a flat on his Surly. Problems: there's a thru-axle and he thought it was tubeless (2:45).
Charlie’s News: Virginia plans to get rid of pa
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New Yorkers' hopes for 2026 in bikes as transit, plus Taylor's flat tire and traffic at LAX @shabazzstuart.bsky.social @nyc.streetsblog.org @streetopia.bsky.social @misernyc.bsky.social soundcloud.com/biketalk/260...
DIY crosswalks by People's Vision Zero-because the LADOT wasn't doing the job. Also, Mamdani's inauguration in a New York Minute and All Bodies on Bikes @nyc.streetsblog.org @realgershkuntzman.bsky.social @crosswalksla.bsky.social @marleyblonsky.bsky.social soundcloud.com/biketalk/260...
26/01 New Year, Same Things
Bike Talk Listener Survey results (0:40).
Notable bike-related laws of 2025 with bike lawyer Jim Pocrass (15:00).
Mamdani’s transit-focused inauguration in a New York Minute with Streetsblog NYC Edi
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January 11, 2026 at 1:19 AM
DIY crosswalks by People's Vision Zero-because the LADOT wasn't doing the job. Also, Mamdani's inauguration in a New York Minute and All Bodies on Bikes @nyc.streetsblog.org @realgershkuntzman.bsky.social @crosswalksla.bsky.social @marleyblonsky.bsky.social soundcloud.com/biketalk/260...
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Join Taylor and Nick for some Bike Talk 2026 style!! @biketalk.bsky.social
26/01 New Year, Same Things
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January 9, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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@bikeleague.org on transportation bill that leaves out everything but cars, a judge who overruled a partly built bike lane @nyc.streetsblog.org, Waymos, and the cycling “movement” m.soundcloud.com/biketalk/255...
#2551 Call To Action
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@bikeleague.org on transportation bill that leaves out everything but cars, a judge who overruled a partly built bike lane @nyc.streetsblog.org, Waymos, and the cycling “movement” m.soundcloud.com/biketalk/255...
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I wish people would stop making up random numbers of months that “nobody bikes.”
If you don’t personally bike unless weather is perfect, say that.
If you don’t see the value of investing in bike infra, say that.
If you don’t personally bike unless weather is perfect, say that.
If you don’t see the value of investing in bike infra, say that.
“Nobody is biking in the city for 9 months of the year”
December 29, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I wish people would stop making up random numbers of months that “nobody bikes.”
If you don’t personally bike unless weather is perfect, say that.
If you don’t see the value of investing in bike infra, say that.
If you don’t personally bike unless weather is perfect, say that.
If you don’t see the value of investing in bike infra, say that.
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WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes
Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes ...
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December 23, 2025 at 3:50 AM
WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
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Fabian Todorovic should update his iconic illustration, with a driver of an SUV, a bike share user, and delivery robots taking over sidewalks
December 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Fabian Todorovic should update his iconic illustration, with a driver of an SUV, a bike share user, and delivery robots taking over sidewalks