Bike Talk
@biketalk.bsky.social
A weekly radio podcast dedicated to bikes as transportation, at https://biketalk.org/
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Cycling friends, please head over to biketalk.org and take part in the survey posted there. Oh, and why not listen to this week's episode while your sprucing up the house this weekend? Be safe riders! @biketalk.bsky.social
BREAKING: Nebraska Man enjoys rare weekday morning at home… chooses coffee + BikeTalk.org. Reports include: LA Bikefest -News Roundup-Email Insight -Touring Talk-Cycling Hierarchy-Bikes For All. All before 10 a.m.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Cycling friends, please head over to biketalk.org and take part in the survey posted there. Oh, and why not listen to this week's episode while your sprucing up the house this weekend? Be safe riders! @biketalk.bsky.social
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"Leaning into bikes, transit, and safe streets signals a candidates concern for health, quality of life, financial responsibility, climate, and often joy. And, I think it's a winning strategy."
Our board president, @lauragmitchell.com, sharing her thoughts on bikes during the election on Bike Talk.
Our board president, @lauragmitchell.com, sharing her thoughts on bikes during the election on Bike Talk.
Bikes Win @nyc.streetsblog.org @transalt.org @bikeleague.org @ourstreetsmn.org @lauragmitchell.com @revborfo.bsky.social soundcloud.com/biketalk/254...
#2545 Bikes Win
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 be
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November 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
"Leaning into bikes, transit, and safe streets signals a candidates concern for health, quality of life, financial responsibility, climate, and often joy. And, I think it's a winning strategy."
Our board president, @lauragmitchell.com, sharing her thoughts on bikes during the election on Bike Talk.
Our board president, @lauragmitchell.com, sharing her thoughts on bikes during the election on Bike Talk.
Bikes Win @nyc.streetsblog.org @transalt.org @bikeleague.org @ourstreetsmn.org @lauragmitchell.com @revborfo.bsky.social soundcloud.com/biketalk/254...
#2545 Bikes Win
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 be
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November 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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We ask everyone outside of the car to be safe so that drivers can be dangerous.
November 8, 2025 at 11:21 PM
We ask everyone outside of the car to be safe so that drivers can be dangerous.
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Take notes: campaigns that include bikes are winners.
November 5, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Take notes: campaigns that include bikes are winners.
In solidarity with @modacitylife.com @lucymaloney.bsky.social @sharrows.bsky.social soundcloud.com/biketalk/254...
#2542 Cycling Solidarity
Bike Talk Listener Survey (0:23)
People on bikes are “Nature’s Most Efficient Traveler,” reveals Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-human-on-a-bicycle-is-among-the-most-
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October 29, 2025 at 2:00 AM
City leaders, women and the other kinds, plus Slovenia bike tours @lucymaloney.bsky.social @modacitylife.com soundcloud.com/biketalk/254...
#2541 Countering Car Culture
Bike tech: Dynamo lights and pocket compressors (0:19).
Charlie’s News (4:21).
Two authors on what we’ve lost by making kids car dependent: author of A Love Letter to Suburbia Diane Alisa interviews
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October 22, 2025 at 2:02 AM
City leaders, women and the other kinds, plus Slovenia bike tours @lucymaloney.bsky.social @modacitylife.com soundcloud.com/biketalk/254...
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Headlines: "Organizers Feel Whiplash as Trump Freezes RLE Funding"; "Metra celebrates rehabilitation of three Metra Electric stations"; John discusses "struggle with IDOT for a saner configuration" on Bike Talk.
@biketalk.bsky.social @betterstreetschicago.org @bikegridnow.org
@biketalk.bsky.social @betterstreetschicago.org @bikegridnow.org
Today's Headlines for Wednesday, October 8 - Streetsblog Chicago
This post is sponsored by Keating Law Offices. • “Chicago Organizers Feel Whiplash as Trump Administration Freezes Funding for Red Line Extension” (WTTW) • “Metra celebrates rehabilitation of three Me...
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October 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Headlines: "Organizers Feel Whiplash as Trump Freezes RLE Funding"; "Metra celebrates rehabilitation of three Metra Electric stations"; John discusses "struggle with IDOT for a saner configuration" on Bike Talk.
@biketalk.bsky.social @betterstreetschicago.org @bikegridnow.org
@biketalk.bsky.social @betterstreetschicago.org @bikegridnow.org
Bike Share, Bike Policy, Bike Battles @joelengardio.bsky.social @bikeeastbay.bsky.social @bikeleague.org soundcloud.com/biketalk/253...
#2539 - Champions of Bike Advocacy
Bay Wheels bikeshare in the East Bay lends ebikes for $20/month to qualified residents and $120 for everyone else, reports Bike East Bay co-Executive Director Justin Hu-Nguyen (1:05).
Former San Fran
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October 7, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Bike Share, Bike Policy, Bike Battles @joelengardio.bsky.social @bikeeastbay.bsky.social @bikeleague.org soundcloud.com/biketalk/253...
@strongtowns.org founder Chuck Marohn with Strong Townish Love Letter to Suburbia author Diane Alisa, @ericbrightwell.bsky.social on the fight for bikes in WeHo, Boston Bikeway Block Party, Bikes, Birds, & BART with @bikingmzstacey.bsky.social, and more. soundcloud.com/biketalk/253...
#2537 Validation
Listener emails in response to last episode's bike lane hater from Eric Brightwell, host of the Nobody Drives in LA podcast https://ericbrightwell.com/nobody-drives-in-la/ and Ross, a West Hollywood v
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October 7, 2025 at 2:17 AM
@strongtowns.org founder Chuck Marohn with Strong Townish Love Letter to Suburbia author Diane Alisa, @ericbrightwell.bsky.social on the fight for bikes in WeHo, Boston Bikeway Block Party, Bikes, Birds, & BART with @bikingmzstacey.bsky.social, and more. soundcloud.com/biketalk/253...
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— This week on BIKE TALK —
— 🚲 REASONS TO RIDE 🚲—
🧠🚲 A new JAMA study links biking to lower dementia risk — so should we all be pedaling to Costco?
🎙️In episode #2535, a Bluesky user weighs in.
🚦Robert Printz of Bike East Bay responds to Charles Marohn’s take on federal bike infrastructure (#2537)
— 🚲 REASONS TO RIDE 🚲—
🧠🚲 A new JAMA study links biking to lower dementia risk — so should we all be pedaling to Costco?
🎙️In episode #2535, a Bluesky user weighs in.
🚦Robert Printz of Bike East Bay responds to Charles Marohn’s take on federal bike infrastructure (#2537)
#2538 - Reasons to Ride
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September 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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The one where Taylor and Nick litigate bike lanes by doing a 1 Act radio play.
September 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The one where Taylor and Nick litigate bike lanes by doing a 1 Act radio play.
Again with Diane! on.soundcloud.com/xY0uAYbWWodj...
#2536 - Answers
Bike tours of Portland, Oregon by Cycle Portland, an interview of Charlotte by listener contributor Jonathan Weiss (1:26).
A Love Letter to Suburbia is a new book on how car dependency, corporate con
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September 14, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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“The prudent driver sets the speed not the imprudent driver”
Two lane roads restrict antisocial driving behaviors in safe and effective ways.
Another though provoking episode of @biketalk.bsky.social. This one crosses the political divide with conversations and voices you might not hear.
Two lane roads restrict antisocial driving behaviors in safe and effective ways.
Another though provoking episode of @biketalk.bsky.social. This one crosses the political divide with conversations and voices you might not hear.
#2535 These Are The People in Your Neighborhood — Bike Talk
Why, being flat and on Manhattan’s “doorstep,” is Long Island so resistant to all bike infrastructure? asks listener Sean Cirillo (0:53). West Hollywood bike lane opponent Kyle Brazil debates Taylor a...
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September 7, 2025 at 11:58 PM
“The prudent driver sets the speed not the imprudent driver”
Two lane roads restrict antisocial driving behaviors in safe and effective ways.
Another though provoking episode of @biketalk.bsky.social. This one crosses the political divide with conversations and voices you might not hear.
Two lane roads restrict antisocial driving behaviors in safe and effective ways.
Another though provoking episode of @biketalk.bsky.social. This one crosses the political divide with conversations and voices you might not hear.
Bike lane defenders this episode: @lucymaloney.bsky.social @bikeleague.org @misernyc.bsky.social @strongtowns.org #bikesky biketalk.org/2025/08/2533...
#2533 Bikes Up - Bike Talk
Vancouver bike activist Lucy Maloney won a seat on the anti- bike city council she fought for years. She gave Taylor a tour of the city and talks about her journey (2:24). Speed cameras will go up thi...
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August 24, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Bike lane defenders this episode: @lucymaloney.bsky.social @bikeleague.org @misernyc.bsky.social @strongtowns.org #bikesky biketalk.org/2025/08/2533...
Mostly kid stuff- kids interview each other on how they learn to ride, Kiddical Mass, bikes in schools. @bikeottawa.bsky.social @colinbogart.bsky.social #bikesky soundcloud.com/biketalk/253...
#2532 - Kids Ride Worldwide
Listener feedback: Rebecca Reilly wants Nick to pronounce
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August 21, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Mostly kid stuff- kids interview each other on how they learn to ride, Kiddical Mass, bikes in schools. @bikeottawa.bsky.social @colinbogart.bsky.social #bikesky soundcloud.com/biketalk/253...
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"California’s car culture currently thrives on a collective cognitive dissonance and it’s reflected in our infrastructure. We call ourselves environmentalists but allow our transit systems to languish. We remove bike lanes just months after installing them We reject much-needed housing near transit"
Can San Diego End its Dependence on Cars?
Unless you have no other choice or pay ‘walkable neighborhood’ rent prices, going out of your way to reject car culture feels borderline masochistic.
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August 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
"California’s car culture currently thrives on a collective cognitive dissonance and it’s reflected in our infrastructure. We call ourselves environmentalists but allow our transit systems to languish. We remove bike lanes just months after installing them We reject much-needed housing near transit"
DOT is extending its public comment period requesting ideas for the next surface transportation bill, until Sept 8th. Maybe they haven't gotten the comments they want and/or they've gotten too many comments like ours, which they don't want. so send in comments now. bikeleague.org/take-action/...
August 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
DOT is extending its public comment period requesting ideas for the next surface transportation bill, until Sept 8th. Maybe they haven't gotten the comments they want and/or they've gotten too many comments like ours, which they don't want. so send in comments now. bikeleague.org/take-action/...
Secretary Duffy believes the U.S. DOT should NOT be funding bicycle infrastructure.
He said
“I do think you see more congestion when you add bike lanes and take away vehicle lanes. That’s a problem.”
Disagree?
Submit Your Comment by by August 20 #bikesky www.votervoice.net/mobile/BikeL...
He said
“I do think you see more congestion when you add bike lanes and take away vehicle lanes. That’s a problem.”
Disagree?
Submit Your Comment by by August 20 #bikesky www.votervoice.net/mobile/BikeL...
The U.S. Department of Transportation Wants to Hear From You!
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy is soliciting citizen feedback on “any aspect of Federal transportation infrastructure policy to inform the surface transportation reauthorization process." Ever...
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August 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Secretary Duffy believes the U.S. DOT should NOT be funding bicycle infrastructure.
He said
“I do think you see more congestion when you add bike lanes and take away vehicle lanes. That’s a problem.”
Disagree?
Submit Your Comment by by August 20 #bikesky www.votervoice.net/mobile/BikeL...
He said
“I do think you see more congestion when you add bike lanes and take away vehicle lanes. That’s a problem.”
Disagree?
Submit Your Comment by by August 20 #bikesky www.votervoice.net/mobile/BikeL...
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Zohran’s citibike numbers make me feel like we need to start demanding bike share stats from our politicians in the same way we demand tax returns
August 7, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Zohran’s citibike numbers make me feel like we need to start demanding bike share stats from our politicians in the same way we demand tax returns