EPISODE 301: A Milan-shaped Conversation with Janette Sadik-Khan SPONSOR: Tern Bicycles HOST: Carlton Reid GUEST: Janette Sadik-Khan TOPICS: The miracle of Milan, with Janette Sadik-Khan. LINKS: https://www.ternbicycles.com/ http://www.jsadikkhan.com
18th June 2022 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 300: Chef's Bike Tour of Sardinia SPONSOR: Tern Bicycles HOST: Carlton Reid GUESTS: Tourissimo guides, guests and US chef Mary Sue Milliken TOPICS: 38-minute travelogue of the Chef's Bike Tour of Sardinia by Tourissimo. Sardinia’s so-called Blue Zone has many locals living robustly into their nineties and beyond, with a much higher than normal concentration of centenarians including Uncle Julio who was still cycling at 104. Show — topped and t...
1st June 2022 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 299: In conversation with Marco te Brömmelstroet SPONSOR: Tern Bicycles HOST: Carlton Reid GUEST: Fietsprofessor Marco te Brömmelstroet of University of Amsterdam’s Urban Cycling Institute TOPICS: This show is a conversation with Fietsprofessor Marco te Brömmelstroet of University of Amsterdam’s Urban Cycling Institute LINKS: https://www.ternbicycles.com https://www.the-spokesmen.com https://twitter.com/carltonreid https://twitter.com/fietsprof...
28th May 2022 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 298: Bicycle Mayors Program Founded To Counter Reducing Numbers of Dutch Cyclists SPONSOR: Tern Bicycles HOST: Carlton Reid GUESTS: Aya Achaboun, Simón Alvarez Belon, Lucas Boer and Maud de Vries TOPICS: BYCS, bicycle mayors and the shocking fact that a Dutch NGO felt the need to create a program to stop the drop in cyclist numbers in ... the Netherlands. LINKS: https://www.ternbicycles.com https://www.the-spokesmen.com https://twitter.com/carl...
23rd May 2022 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 297: Stop motorways, remove parking, boost bicycling, says Sweden's Climate Law Inquiry SPONSOR: Tern Bicycles HOST: Carlton Reid GUESTS: Anders Roth TOPICS: This show is a 37 minute conversation with the secretary of Sweden's Climate Law Inquiry LINKS: https://www.ternbicycles.com https://www.the-spokesmen.com https://twitter.com/carltonreid 44 page English-language summary starts on p. 41 — https://www.regeringen.se/49a90f/contentassets/85bdc...
8th May 2022 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 296: Explore Your Boundaries SPONSOR: Tern Bicycles HOST: Carlton Reid GUESTS: Marcus Stitz and Mark Beaumont TOPICS: This show is 45 minutes with round the world cyclists Marcus Stitz and Mark Beaumont discussing their "explore your boundaries" bike-boat-ferry tour of Argyll, Scotland. LINKS: https://www.ternbicycles.com https://www.the-spokesmen.com https://twitter.com/carltonreid https://twitter.com/mrmarkbeaumont https://twitter.com/reizkult...
21st April 2022 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 295: The best electric car is a bicycle — in conversation with sustainability scientist Kim Nicholas SPONSOR: Tern Bicycles HOST: Carlton Reid GUEST: Professor Kim Nicholas TOPICS: This show is a little under an hour with Professor Kim Nicholas, an American sustainability scientist based in Lund, Sweden. She's co-author of a new study which ranks the 12 best ways to reduce car dependence in cities. LINKS: https://www.ternbicycles.com/uk https...
27th March 2022 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 294: Building a Better World — an Activist Planner's Network Analysis of Bike Lanes in Paris SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUEST: Marcel Moran TOPICS: This is a show about network analysis, specifically of the coranapistes of Paris but also how the University of Californina Berkeley has a strong history of what's known as "activist planning" where there is an acknowledgement that scholars will want to build a better world. With Marce...
28th February 2022 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 293: Beacons with Kevin Mayne SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUEST: Kevin Mayne, Chief Executive, Cycling Industries Europe TOPICS: 40 minutes or so with Brussels-based Kevin Mayne the Chief Executive of Cycling Industries Europe, the bike industry advocacy group. We talked beacons. You know, the detection or connection tech I've been banging on about since 2018, and which potentially has ethical and safety ramifications for all fo...
5th February 2022 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 292: What Would Jesus Ride? An Audience with the Pedaling Pastor SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUEST: G. Travis Norvell TOPICS: Travis Norvell is the pastor of Judson Memorial Baptist Church in Minneapolis, MN. On twitter he's the @pedalingpastor. We talk about cars, parking lots, what Jesus would ride and Church on the Move, Travis' new book LINKS: https://www.Jensonusa.com/thespokesmen https://www.the-spokesmen.com https://twitte...
16th January 2022 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 291: Bike bubble has popped says industry analyst Rick Vosper SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUEST: Industry veteran Rick Vosper TOPICS: Any bursting of the bike boom bubble will reverberate widely and could destabilise global bicycle advocacy efforts. This is therefore of potential concern to cyclists in general, argues bike industry veteran Rick Vosper. LINKS: https://www.Jensonusa.com/thespokesmen https://www.the-spokesmen.com ht...
11th January 2022 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 290: Launch of Gravel Grinding Hall of Fame with Guitar Ted SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUEST: Mark Stevenson aka Guitar Ted TOPICS: LINKS: https://www.Jensonusa.com/thespokesmen https://www.the-spokesmen.com https://twitter.com/carltonreid https://twitter.com/guitarted1961 https://www.ridinggravel.com/gravel-news/gravel-grinder-news-gravel-cycling-hall-of-fame-announced/ https://www.gravelcyclinghof.com/...
22nd December 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 289: Two Volcano Sprint winner and bike entrepreneur Andrew Phillips SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUEST: Andrew Phillips LINKS: https://www.Jensonusa.com/thespokesmen https://www.the-spokesmen.com https://twitter.com/carltonreid www.orb.bike www.Zolla.cc sinewavecycles.com
13th December 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 288: Why is anti-roads campaigner John Stewart against LTNs? SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUEST: John Stewart, Chair of Campaign for Better Transport and UK Noise Association and a long time anti-roads campaigner TOPICS: Veteran anti-road campaigner John Stewart is anti-LTN: why? LINKS: https://www.Jensonusa.com/thespokesmen https://www.the-spokesmen.com https://twitter.com/JohnJohnStewart/status/1469989872995905538?s=20...
22nd November 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 287: Chris Froome and Hammerhead CEO Pieter Morgan SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUESTS: Chris Froome and Pieter Morgan TOPICS: Chris Froome's investment in Pieter Morgan's Hammerhead. LINKS: https://www.Jensonusa.com/thespokesmen https://www.the-spokesmen.com https://nextventures.com/team/ https://www.hammerhead.io/
14th November 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 286: COP26 SPECIAL: The Transition to Zero Cars SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUESTS: US Congressman Earl Blumenauer of Oregon; Greater Manchester’s transport commissioner Chris Boardman and the city region's mayor Andy Burnham; the UCI's Advocacy and Development Manager Isabella Burczak; Susan Claris and Stephen Edwards of Living Streets; Ed Miliband, UK Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy; Moha...
29th October 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 285: Ride For Their Lives SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUESTS: Childrens' health professionals on the Ride for Their Lives ride. TOPICS: 30 or so childrens' health professionals are riding from London to Glasgow to deliver a letter to world leaders at COP24. I joined them on day six between Newcastle and Carlisle. LINKS: https://www.Jensonusa.com/thespokesmen https://www.the-spokesmen.com https://climateacceptancestudios.com/ridef...
4th October 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 284: Brum to kick out cars SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUEST: Cllr Waseem Zaffar TOPICS: 45-minute interview with Birmingham's city council's transport lead Waseem Zaffar on a day the council launched its radical and potentially transformative transport plan. The UK's motorway city is to prioritise people over cars, including adding more protected cycleways. If Britain's Detroit can do it, any city can do it! This interview was us...
19th September 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 283: Autonorama SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUEST: Peter Norton TOPICS: US academic Peter Norton, author of the classic "Fighting Traffic," talks about his new book "Autonorama" which details the historically-resonant threat to pedestrians and cyclists from driverless vehicles. LINKS: https://www.Jensonusa.com/thespokesmen https://www.the-spokesmen.com https://islandpress.org/books/autonorama...
12th September 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 282: Veloforte SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUESTS: Marc and Lara Giusti TOPICS: A 50-minute chat with Veloforte founders Marc and Lara Guisti. LINKS: https://www.Jensonusa.com/thespokesmen https://www.the-spokesmen.com https://veloforte.com
5th September 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 281: "If you look at the tree, you hit the tree": eMTBing Guiding Masterclass With H+I's Chris Gibbs SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUESTS: Chris Gibbs and Jude Reid TOPICS: Carlton's wife Jude rides to work on an electric bike but hasn't ridden off road for more than 20 years. Cue this three-day eMTB press trip in Cairngorms courtesy of Shimano. H+I's head guide Chris Gibbs reintroduces Jude to genuine mountain biking while talkin...
22nd August 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 280: Jus, not gels: In conversation with LeBlanq's foodie founders Justin Clarke and Ashley Palmer-Watts SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUESTS: Justin Clarke and Ashley Palmer-Watts TOPICS: The founders of LeBlanq drill down into their upscale gastronomy-based cycling getaways and why, for them, it's got to be jus, not gels. LINKS: https://www.Jensonusa.com/thespokesmen https://www.the-spokesmen.com https://www.leblanq.com...
15th August 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 279: Bike Portland's Jonathan Maus SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUEST: Jonathan Maus TOPICS: 16 years of Bike Portland LINKS: https://www.Jensonusa.com/thespokesmen https://www.the-spokesmen.com http://bikeportland.org http://twitter.com/BikePortland http://instagram.com/bikeportland
1st August 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 278: Genetically redundant at 40: The Midlife Cyclist with Phil Cavell SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUEST: Phil Cavell TOPICS: Talking with Cyclefit's Phil Cavell, author of "The Midlife Cyclist." LINKS: https://www.Jensonusa.com/thespokesmen https://www.the-spokesmen.com https://www.cyclefit.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/philcavell?lang=en https://twitter.com/bloomsburysport?lang=en https://www.the-spokesmen.com/philcavell/...
11th July 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 277: Le Tour: Too Hot to Handle? SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUESTS: Donna Tocci and Jim Moss TOPICS: Marketing specialist Donna Tocci, lawyer Jim Moss and show host Carlton Reid discuss their highlights so far of the 2021 Tour de France. Plus a little bit of US trade nows. And Jim's dogs. LINKS: www.Jensonusa.com/thespokesmen www.the-spokesmen.com
20th June 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 276: From San Fran Bike Courier to BBC Journalist Via the Great North Road SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUEST: Steve Silk TOPICS: The Great North Road. Coaching inns. Spitfires and warm beer. Wherries. Brexit. BBC impartiality. Beaming about Beamish. Forgetting about being a San Francisco bike courier. Chamois cream. Bonking. Norfolk Broads. Being a bloke on a bike but not being Alan Partridge. Cycling to work versus cycling for leis...
12th May 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 275: Pump for Peace with Claudio Caluori SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUEST: Claudio Caluori TOPICS: "The kids were just riding and riding and riding and riding, and I had tears in my eyes." A chat about Pump for Peace with downhill mountain biker and trail builder Claudio Caluori of Velosolutions, the world's foremost pump track construction company LINKS: www.Jensonusa.com/thespokesmen www.the-spokesmen.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=d...
9th May 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 274: Curbing cars with Chris and Melissa Bruntlett SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUESTS: Chris and Melissa Bruntlett TOPICS: A 65-minute chat with Chris and Melissa Bruntlett, authors of "Curbing Traffic" from Island Press and published at the end of June. LINKS: Sponsor: http://www.Jensonusa.com/thespokesmen Show notes: http://www.the-spokesmen.com Book promo codes: http://www.modacitylife.com/curbing-traffic Dutch Cycling Embassy: htt...
8th May 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 273: Ralph Buehler and John Pucher On Cycling For Sustainable Cities SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUESTS: Ralph Buehler and John Pucher TOPICS: A one-hour chat with Ralph Buehler and John Pucher, editors of "Cycling For Sustainable Cities," a new book from MIT Press which is a big fat follow-up to their 2012 classic "City Cycling" LINKS: www.Jensonusa.com/thespokesmen www.the-spokesmen.com...
20th April 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 272: Revolutions: How women changed the world on two wheels SPONSOR: Jenson USA — www.Jensonusa.com/thespokesmen HOST: Carlton Reid GUEST: Hannah Ross TOPICS: A one-hour chat with Hannah Ross, author of "Revolutions," a new book which explores how the world was changed by women riding bicycles, and how it's still being changed. For the better. SHOWNOTES: www.the-spokesmen.com
