106: People Protected Bike Lanes, IMBA vs. the World, Ban The Bike! – A Response, San Diego’s Bike Share Problem, 2018 WorldTour Fashion Analysis, and Drafting Off Semi-Trucks

Recorded on December 6, 2017

Hosted by Kelley O’Toole Co-Hosts:  Justin Macias, Victor Prestinary, Chris Reynolds, Tim Wilson Editing: Chris Reynolds

• HealthIQ
• Audible

• Russia banned from 2018 World Olympics
  • “hole” image via Washington Post via Bryan Fogle/Grigory Rodchenkov
• UCI and Peter Sagan relieved to end legal dispute
• Letter to the Editor: Online Community Weighs in on IMBA’s position (Bicycle Retailer)

• People Protected Bike Lane
• San Diego may be left out of dockless bike sharing trend
• Ban the bike! How cities made a huge mistake in promoting cycling
• OH kit! Pro teams reveal their 2018 upgraded kits
• Holiday Challenge #bicyclistweeklychallenge (example from Reddit)
• Policeman filmed a cyclist-kamikaze who stupidly risked his life

• [10:20] “Oh now you sound like everyone who supports Lance!”
• [10:52] “We like to provide varying view points on a singular topic because that helps other people determine where they fall in line and how they feel about things.”
• [24:18] “The similarities that motorcycles and electric bikes have are the same similarities that motorcycles and non-electric bicycles have.”
• [27:35] “Anyone who is not an active cyclist, anyone who is not one of these people, by definition is a ‘weak’ rider. Well that is the majority of the United States, people, it is the majority of potential people who could become cyclists. They are weak cyclists because they aren’t cyclists at all. So that is the audience that he is trying to say is a ‘tiny sub-set’.”
• [28:27] “None of these people *need* a motor to go outside. As I’ve said many times before, I’m fine with ebikes as a transportation method, but if you’re just going out there for recreation, you don’t need a motor; just go slower or less distance.“
• [40:00] “I think it’s important that there are a ton of people who…are sort of putting their lives on the line by setting up this barrier between cars and cyclists who frequently commute that bike lane.”
• [40:34] This really goes back to last week’s conversation in a big way because last week we talked a lot about the different kids of access for bikes and ways you should bike and we even got into the point as to whether there should be even bike lanes at all. So if you feel strongly about this topic and you haven’t heard last week’s episode, go back and listen to it.”
• [41:42] “A difference between a dock bike and a dockless bike program is that one is parked in spaces where the bikes are put, like a station, whereas the deckles bike program uses an app or software to take the bike wherever you ant and just leave it wherever and that can be used by someone else.”
• [47:55] “This is a good example of someone who has brainstormed all of the contentious issue that pray upon people’s emotions and is using them in a focused way against bicycles for principle interests that this individual has.”
• [50:48] “The statistics, the reality, does not fit these anecdotal portrays of cycling that Soloman has put together.”
• [56:15] “I was trying to figure out what street in Sydney they had been banned on and I haven’t found anything. I’m trying to Google, I’m trying to Google. I haven’t found anything.”