The Spokesmen Cycling Roundtable Podcast

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Episode #268 – Bike Freak: Being Gary Fisher Feb 28, 2021

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EPISODE 268: Bike Freak: Being Gary Fisher

SPONSOR: Jenson USA

HOST: Carlton Reid

GUEST: Gary Fisher

TOPICS: I walk him Gary backyards through his life, starting now and ending in 1950, the year he was born.

LINKS:

https://twitter.com/gary_fisher

https://www.bluetrainpublishing.com/books-blog/being-gary-fisher

https://www.jensonusa.com/thespokesmen

Episode #267 – Put money on the table and let's get these modes moving Feb 07, 2021

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Sunday 7th February 2021

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EPISODE 267: Put money on the table and let's get these modes moving

SPONSOR: Jenson USA

HOST: Carlton Reid

GUESTS:

Francois Bausch, Deputy Minister, Minister for Mobility and Public Works, Luxembourg

Claudia Dobles Camargo, First Lady, Costa Rica

Dagmawit Moges, Minister of Transport, Ethiopia

Jürgen Zattler, Deputy Director General for Multilateral and European Policy, Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany

Femi Oke, broadcaster

TOPICS: Extracts from the closing plenary of the Transforming Transportation conference held last week. This is staged every year for the World Bank by Washington DC's World Resources Institute.

LINKS:

https://www.transformingtransportation.org

https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/transport

https://www.the-spokesmen.com

https://www.moderatethepanel.com

https://twitter.com/FemiOke

https://www.jensonusa.com/thespokesmen

Episode #266 – Move More With The Miracle Pill Author Peter Walker Jan 29, 2021

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Friday 29th January 2021

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EPISODE 266: Move More With The Miracle Pill Author Peter Walker

SPONSOR: Jenson USA

HOST: Carlton Reid

GUEST: Peter Walker

TOPICS: A one-hour long conversation with Guardian political journalist Peter Walker talking about his new book, "The Miracle Pill."

LINKS:

https://www.the-spokesmen.com

https://twitter.com/peterwalker99

https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/The-Miracle-Pill/Peter-Walker/9781471192524

https://www.jensonusa.com/thespokesmen

Episode #265 – Desert Skies, Warm Showers and Church Bells Jan 25, 2021

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Monday 25th January 2021

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EPISODE 265: Desert Skies, Warm Showers and Church Bells

SPONSOR: Jenson USA

HOST: Carlton Reid

GUESTS: Donna Tocci and Sylva Florence

TOPICS: Solo cycle touring. Donna and Carlton chat with Sylva who — among many other bike trips — rode solo from Berkeley, California to St. Augustine, Florida on Adventure Cycling's Southern Tier Route. Carlton was in Newcastle, Donna was in Boston and Sylva was in — as you will hear thanks to some melodious bells — a small town in Italy.

LINKS:

https://www.jensonusa.com/thespokesmen

www.thesylvalining.com

https://www.instagram.com/sylvana.firenze/

https://blogs.memphis.edu/dirtysouth/2013/10/18/dirty-south/

https://eu.dahon.com/bikes/tournado/

https://tourdesstations.ch/en/

https://www.adventurecycling.org/routes-and-maps/adventure-cycling-route-network/southern-tier/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everesting

https://www.dana-farber.org/how-you-can-help/events/participate-in-a-fundraising-event/dana-farber-marathon-challenge/

https://roadswerenotbuiltforcars.com/kickstarter/

Episode #264 – Bike Nerds Kyle and Sara of People for Bikes Jan 16, 2021

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Saturday 16th December 2021

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EPISODE 264: Bike Nerds Kyle and Sara of People for Bikes

SPONSOR: Jenson USA

HOST: Carlton Reid

GUESTS: Kyle Wagenschutz and Sarah Studdard of People for Bikes

TOPICS: Bike lanes, mobility motivations, and Mayor Pete's high-profile potential impact on transportation.

Episode #263 – Loading close pass videos to the cloud with a smart bike dashcam that looks like a cute Pixar character Dec 30, 2020

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Wednesday 30th December 2020

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EPISODE 263: Loading close pass videos to the cloud with a smart bike dashcam that looks like a cute Pixar character

SPONSOR: Jenson USA

HOST: Carlton Reid

GUESTS: Crispian Poon and Liz Yu of Pelation, maker of the Rebo smart bike light and dash cam.

TOPICS: Pelation is a UK-government backed start-up that is to soon produce for real the Rebo smart bike light and dashcam video combo — it looks like a Pixar character and has been trialled successfully by a courier company Pedal and Post of Oxford. I

LINKS:

https://www.the-spokesmen.com

https://www.jensonusa.com/thespokesmen

https://www.pelation.co.uk/rebo

Episode #262 – Baron Bird: “Bikes are the future” Dec 01, 2020

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#GivingTuesday 1st December 2020

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EPISODE 262: Baron Bird: “Bikes are the future”

SPONSOR: Jenson USA

HOST: Carlton Reid

GUEST: Big Issue publisher Baron Bird of Notting Hill in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

TOPICS:
The Big Issue publisher Baron Bird of Notting Hill loves bicycling. He lives 7 miles from Cambridge and when visiting he cycles there. His latest Big Issue project is a docked bike share scheme for smaller cities using electric bikes fettled and hired out by unemployed people and others who may be vulnerable and in need of a way of improving their lives.

Lord Bird has had a fascinating life so far — a life enriched by art and what he calls social kindness — and he's clearly not ready to put his feet up under his ermine robes just yet.

The Big Issue is still sold by those living in poverty but, because of Covid, no longer from the street. Lord Bird discusses the various other ways you can now help out Big Issue vendors but first we talk about Giving Tuesday and Taking It Away Wednesday, with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea set to dismantle the well-used cycleway on Kensington High Street. Lord Bird slammed this decision saying "bikes are the future."

LINKS:

https://twitter.com/johnbirdswords

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bird,_Baron_Bird

https://www.bigissue.com

https://www.the-spokesmen.com

https://www.jensonusa.com/thespokesmen

Episode #261 – Faster, smaller, cleaner: data analysis shows why delivering by cargobike makes sense Nov 26, 2020

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Thursday 26th November 2020

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EPISODE 261: Faster, smaller, cleaner: data analysis shows why delivering by cargobike makes sense

SPONSOR: Jenson USA

HOST: Carlton Reid

GUESTS: Ben Knowles and Nicolas Collignon of Pedal Me, London

LINKS:

https://www.the-spokesmen.com

https://pedalme.co.uk/why-cargo-bikes/

https://twitter.com/nccollignon

https://twitter.com/pedalmeapp

https://www.jensonusa.com/thespokesmen

Episode #260 – Say It With Flowers — My Guardian article's LTN interviews Nov 16, 2020

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EPISODE 260: Say It With Flowers — My Guardian article's LTN interviews

“When you see a bike like mine, filled with flowers, even the most steely, cantankerous Grinch will smile, because it’s a business that spreads joy." Four interviews rescued from the cutting-room floor

Monday 16th November 2020

SPONSOR: Jenson USA — https://www.jensonusa.com/thespokesmen

HOST: Carlton Reid

GUESTS: Newbie cyclist Sarah Berry, bottle shop owner Liam Plowman, cargobike florist Victoria Clasen and cycle campaigner Giles Gibson.

SHOWNOTES: https://www.the-spokesmen.com

Episode #259 – Cyclist Detection Tech With Tome Software CEO Jake Sigal And History of Road Equity With Historian Peter Norton Oct 26, 2020

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EPISODE 259: Cyclist Detection Tech With Tome Software CEO Jake Sigal And History of Road Equity With Historian Peter Norton

Monday 26th October 2020

SPONSOR: Jenson USA

HOST: Carlton Reid