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The Spokesmen Cycling Roundtable Podcast
Episode 165
Wednesday 2nd August, 2017
HOST: Carlton Reid
GUESTS: Pashley CEO Adrian Williams and Fran Martin of Stratford upon Avon’s Traditional Cycle Shop.
SPONSOR: Jenson USA
TOPICS
Pashley, Moulton, the Gov’nor’s Assembly, GB components, and the Traditional Cycle Shop.
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The Spokesmen Cycling Roundtable Podcast
Episode 164
Wednesday 19th July, 2017
HOST: Carlton Reid
GUESTS: Charlie Kelly and Joe Breeze
SPONSOR: Jenson USA
TOPICS
Mountain bike history; Charlie’s book “Fat Tire Flyer”; MTB Legacy Archive on Kickstarter; plus a comp to win a copy of Bike Boom signed by Charlie Kelly and Joe Breeze.
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The Spokesmen Cycling Roundtable Podcast
Episode 163
Tuesday, July 11th, 2017
GOING WITH THE FLOW
A Spokesmen Special from the Velo-City cycle advocacy conference in the Netherlands, staged June 2017.
HOST: Carlton Reid
GUESTS:
Conor Cahill, Liberty Bell, Ireland
Thierry Jimenez, Fietsersbond, Belgium (see pix of his presentation below).
Marco Te Brommelstroet (“cycling professor”), Urban Cycling Institute, University of Amsterdam
Cornelia Dinca, Sustainable Amsterdam
Meredith Glaser, University of Amsterdam
Randy Neufeld, SRAM Cycling Fund, Chicago
SPONSOR: Jenson USA
TOPICS
The Liberty Bell program of Boulder, Colorado and Dublin, Ireland; the Belgian “measuring bike”; cycling flows and swarms in Amsterdam; an infrastructure safari of Amsterdam; and cycling advocacy from the SRAM Cycling Fund.
PLUS: Queen’s “Bicycle song” played by the Gelders Orchestra from the opening of Velo-City in Nijemegen, The Netherlands.
How to Listen:
VELO-CITY PRESENTATION OF THIERRY JIMENEZ OF BELGIUM’S FIETSERSBOND
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The Spokesmen Cycling Roundtable Podcast
Episode 162
Sunday, June 4th, 2017
HOST: Carlton Reid
GUESTS: Jim Moss & Donna Tocci
SPONSOR: Jenson USA
TOPICS
200 bikes and a lot of cash: What it costs a bike brand to sponsor a WorldTour team.
Will NASCAR’s most popular driver bring cycling to a new audience?
Professional Bicycle Mechanics Association creating training courses for mechanics and National Bicycle Dealers Association buys Barnett Bicycle Institute. Plus, how the UK bike industry has long had a professional qualification for bike mechanics.
Pitfalls of crowdfunding in the bike industry.
3-ft passing laws now becoming 5-ft passing laws in some US counties. But should the distance be even greater? How about like in the UK’s Highway Code where the “rule” is to give as much room as a motorist would give a car.
How to overtake cyclists video, from UK, with Chris Boardman and a driving instructor.
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The Spokesmen Cycling Roundtable Podcast
Episode 161
Monday May 22nd 2017.
HOST: Carlton Reid
GUEST: Billy No-mates
SPONSOR: Jenson USA
TOPICS
Just me today, reading from Bike Boom from Island Press. Here’s the moving blog posting on Robert “Bicycle Bob” Silverman.
Plus the last Kickstarter plug.
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The Spokesmen Cycling Roundtable Podcast
Episode 160
Monday May 15th 2017.
HOST: Carlton Reid
GUEST:
- Donny Perry, Senior Manager for Retail Development, Specialized Bicycle
SPONSOR: Jenson USA
TOPICS
Today’s episode of the show is a Spokesmen Special and is an extended interview with Donny Perry of Specialized. Donny is the company’s US based Senior Manager for Retail Development. I was with him at the opening of the Specialized pop-up store in Dusseldorf last week. We talked for 45 minutes on the future of bicycle retail.
Donny is the author of “Leading Out Retail – A Creative Look at Bicycle Retail And What All Retailers Can Learn From It”.
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The Spokesmen Cycling Roundtable Podcast is sponsored by Jenson USA.
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The Spokesmen Cycling Roundtable Podcast
Episode 159
Sunday 7th April 2017.
HOST: Carlton Reid
GUESTS:
SPONSOR: Jenson USA
TOPICS
Xavier Brice of Sustrans discusses the 40th anniversary of the creation of Sustrans, as well as London’s bike boom, and the challenges facing the charity.
From the company’s new pop-up store in Düsseldorf, Specialized’s Dominek Geyer reveals details on the new Vado range of urban e-bikes.
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The Spokesmen Cycling Roundtable Podcast
Episode 158
Friday 28th April 2017.
HOST: Carlton Reid
GUESTS:
SPONSOR: Jenson USA
TOPICS
Freelance cycle journalist Laura Laker – she writes for The Guardian and BikeBiz – talks advocacy, infrastructure and the joy of cycling. She then turns the tables and interviews Carlton about a Kickstarter project, “Let’s rescue Britain’s forgotten 1930s protected cycleways.”
Author Simon Warren waxes lyrical over a certain climb in Scotland, and the other hundreds of steeps he’s written about in his series of climbs books, and iOS and Android apps.
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The Spokesmen Cycling Roundtable Podcast
Episode 157
Sunday 23rd April 2017.
HOST: Carlton Reid
GUESTS:
SPONSOR: Jenson USA
TOPICS
Racing news
Michele Scarponi Killed by Inattentive Driver
Michele Scarponi often went on training rides with his parrot
We screwed up, says Specialized over steerer tube race crash
Podcasts: Cyclingtips & the Wheelsuckers podcast
Industry News
Sea Otter is on right now – and Richard picked up a great Joe Breeze story.
Advocacy News
Cycling to work halves disease risk, finds massive new study, so why aren’t US and UK governments prescribing cycling?
Spokesmen listener involved in hit-and-run.
News articles:
Cyclists injured by angry driver
Driver who hit cyclist now in jail
Local cyclists concerned with safety followin hit-and-run
Man who hit cyclist with car denied bond
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The Spokesmen Cycling Roundtable Podcast
Episode 156
Friday 14th April 2017.
HOST: Carlton Reid
GUESTS:
- Guardian journalist Peter Walker
- Martha Roskowski of People for Bikes
- TV Motos International’s Gregg Betonte
SPONSOR: Jenson USA
TOPICS
In this Spokesman Special Carlton Reid interviews three guests.
Peter Walker has a book out, “Bike Nation” – its subtitle is “How cycling can save the world”.
Martha Roskowski is vice president for local innovation at People For Bikes. This US cycle advocacy organisation is urging US cities and towns to choose someone to complete an online City Snapshot to get free access to a new network analysis tool that uses OpenStreetMap to plot existing and potential locations for cycle infrastructure.
Gregg Betonte is co-owner of motorbike-filmcrew specialist TV Motos International which provides moto-support to races such as the Tour of California and Tour de Yorkshire.
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