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The Spokesmen Cycling Roundtable Podcast

Episode 154

Sunday, April 9th 2017.

HOST: Carlton Reid

PANELISTS:

• Rick Vosper
• Donna Tocci

SPONSOR: Jenson USA

TOPICS

RIP to racer Steve Tilford killed in a car crash and ultra-endurance rider Mike Hall killed by a motorist during a long-distance race in Australia.

Canyon comes to the USA, hires executive staff, sets up offices in California, will start shipping this summer. Of course they’ve been saying that since 2011, but this time it seems to be true.

Why have cycle sales in the Netherlands dropped to a thirty-year low?

UK’s first crowdfunded prosecution sees defendant accused of “careless driving after killing cyclist Michael Mason acquitted by a jury just 17 minutes.

UCI relaunches its efforts at becoming one-stop-shop for racing cyclists and everyday cyclists.

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The Spokesmen Cycling Roundtable Podcast is sponsored by Jenson USA.

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This isn’t the usual show, it’s a Spokesmen Special, with three academics as guests. Host: CARLTON REID.

PETER NORTON is associate professor of history at the University of Virginia and author of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City. This reveals how, in the 1920s and 1930s, the American motor lobby invented and popularized the term “jaywalking” in order to reframe what streets were for (and they were no longer for pedestrians and cyclists).

MELODY HOFFMAN of Minneapolis describes herself on her blog as an “urban bicycle scholar, critical feminist, community engagement professor.” Her book Bike Lanes are White Lanes discusses how seemingly benign cycle infrastructure can ring alarm bells with some black communities, why cycle advocacy can sometimes shout “white privilege”, and how “invisible riders” get neither recognition nor cycle facilities. (To grab a discount on Melody’s book type in 6as16 for 30 percent off at the University of Nebraska book store.)

CHRIS OLIVER is a professor of medicine and tweets as @CyclingSurgeon. He is a consultant orthopaedic trauma surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, and also advises the Scottish government on active travel. Once morbidly obese he lost 168lbs (76 kilos) and took up cycling to keep fit. He has ridden Lands End to John o’Groats, and with his daughter, he has also ridden coast to coast across America.

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The Spokesmen Cycling Roundtable Podcast is sponsored by Jenson USA.

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Today’s Spokespeople:

PANELISTS: 

• David Bernstein
• Carlton Reid
• Chris Garrison
• Jim Moss
• Tim Jackson 

TOPICS:

 

Pro Cycling / Racing / MTB/Doping News

• Vuelta a España 2016 Wrap-up
• The Fancy Bear hack of WADA data
• Release of medical data supplied to WADA by Chris Froome and Sir Bradley Wiggins
• Froome says this
• Wiggins says this 
• WADA says this
• Ninth in London gets weightlifter a delayed gold medal
• Armstrong ban on racing is over

Industry News

• Bike Industry Trade Show Evolution
• Eurobike
• Interbike
• Taipei Considering Fall Dates
• Press Camp
• Sea Otter Classic
• Kiss goodbye to the pedal-powered bicycle
• Printing a graphic of a TV on a bike box massively reduces transit damage
• Ember Hemoglobin Tracker 
• Pulse Oximeters on Amazon

Advocacy

• Close-pass motorists can expect prosecution, say these UK traffic cops

Tips, Hints, Best Practices

• Carlton: Buy from your local bike shop!
• Tim: Recycle old cycling socks. Put ‘em in your saddle bag.
• David: Relive.cc (more interesting than Strava Flyby), and Chris suggests Made with SISU for Strava posters
• Chris: Cleat replacement on same shoes: Sharpie outline of position of old cleat before removal
• Jim: Inflation chart, download and put on your workbench