This week Kyle welcomes Baltimore City Council member Ryan Dorsey. Kyle talks with Ryan about his motivations for seeking out public office, how the context of his policy and legislative solutions are informed by Baltimore’s challenges, and his effort to advance transportation solutions that actively dismantle structural racial and inequality.

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This week Kyle welcomes back to the show, historian and author Evan Friss. Evan discusses his new book, On Bicycles: A 200 Year History of Cycling in New York City, a deep dive into the colorful and fraught history of cycling in New York City, showing how it has served as a mirror of the city’s changing social, economic, infrastructural, and cultural politics since it first appeared. Pick up a copy of the new from Columbia University Press (http://tiny.cc/qo307y) or wherever books are sold.

Touch base with the Bike Nerds on Twitter, Facebook, or email to leave your feedback. Even better - leave a review on iTunes! The Bike Nerds Podcast is sponsored Saris Infrastructure. Community demonstrations and temporary pop-up bike lanes just got a little bit more fun, inspiring and safe with Saris Infrastructure’s new Wave Delineators. These wavey lane delineators have been part of pilot programs across the country, and now they're available to anyone or any group interested. Learn more at sarisinfrastructure.com.

This week Kyle reaches beyond the bicycle world for an interview with Tim Riecker, project manager and principal consultant with Emergency Preparedness Solutions (www.epsllc.biz) - a firm specializing in comprehensive emergency management planning. Tim has over two decades of experience in public safety, including local emergency response as a chief officer, state-level emergency management as a senior manager, and public safety consulting across the nation. Kyle and Tim dig into the details of how communities prepare for emergencies, the importance of robust transportation systems in emergency considerations, and the role bicycles can play in the event of an emergency.

Touch base with the Bike Nerds on Twitter, Facebook, or email to leave your feedback. Even better - leave a review on iTunes! The Bike Nerds Podcast is sponsored Bike Fixation. Community demonstrations and temporary pop-up bike lanes just got a little bit more fun, inspiring and safe with Bike Fixation's new Wave Delineators. These wavey lane delineators have been part of pilot programs across the country, and now they're available to anyone or any group interested. Learn more at bikefixation.com.

This week Sara talks with Waffiyyah Murray, Better Bike Share Partnership Program Coordinator. Waffiyyah is a Philadelphia native with a love for walking and biking with over fourteen years of experience working with different Philadelphia-based non-profit and community organizations. In her current role as the Better Bike Share Partnership Program Manager, Waffiyyah works to address barriers to the use of bike share in low-income communities and communities of color and increase equitable access in bike-share systems nationally.

Touch base with the Bike Nerds on Twitter, Facebook, or email to leave your feedback. Even better - leave a review on iTunes! The Bike Nerds Podcast is sponsored Bike Fixation. Community demonstrations and temporary pop-up bike lanes just got a little bit more fun, inspiring and safe with Bike Fixation's new Wave Delineators. These wavey lane delineators have been part of pilot programs across the country, and now they're available to anyone or any group interested. Learn more at bikefixation.com.

This week Sara talks with Dr. Sarah McCullough, Associate Director of the Feminist Research Institute at UC Davis. The two Sara(h)’s start with a discussion on the formation of mountain biking, the community movement that it create and its early ties to social justice movements around the world. From there, they explore the relationship between the joy of cycling as it relates to public space in cities and the positioning of people within those discussion. Stay current with Dr. McCullough’s work by visiting sarahmccphd.com and fri.ucdavis.edu.

Touch base with the Bike Nerds on Twitter, Facebook, or email to leave your feedback. Even better - leave a review on iTunes! The Bike Nerds Podcast is sponsored Bike Fixation. Community demonstrations and temporary pop-up bike lanes just got a little bit more fun, inspiring and safe with Bike Fixation's new Wave Delineators. These wavey lane delineators have been part of pilot programs across the country, and now they're available to anyone or any group interested. Learn more at bikefixation.com

This week Sara talks with Dr. Mimi Sheller, Director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy and Professor of Sociology at Drexel University. Dr. Sheller’s most recent book - “Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes” - serves as the backdrop of this conversation about centering our own advocacy on the intersections of power, inequality, transportation, climate action, and justice. Pick up a copy of Dr. Sheller’s book here: https://goo.gl/CAqCbQ.

Touch base with the Bike Nerds on Twitter, Facebook, or email to leave your feedback. Even better - leave a review on iTunes! The Bike Nerds Podcast is sponsored Bike Fixation. Community demonstrations and temporary pop-up bike lanes just got a little bit more fun, inspiring and safe with Bike Fixation's new Wave Delineators. These wavey lane delineators have been part of pilot programs across the country, and now they're available to anyone or any group interested. Learn more at bikefixation.com

Sara and Kyle tag-team this week’s interview with Kate Gasparro, PhD candidate at Stanford University. Kate recently completed her dissertation defense focusing on research comparing stakeholder dynamics across cities where crowdfunding was used as part of innovative bicycle infrastructure project delivery. Kate’s work and research offers insights into how crowdfunding public infrastructure develops partnerships and creates an engaged stakeholder base, but doesn’t serve as the sole determinant of success for a project. Visit Kate’s website for more information about her work and research: www.kategasparro.com.

Touch base with the Bike Nerds on Twitter, Facebook, or email to leave your feedback. Even better - leave a review on iTunes! The Bike Nerds Podcast is sponsored Bike Fixation. Community demonstrations and temporary pop-up bike lanes just got a little bit more fun, inspiring and safe with Bike Fixation's new Wave Delineators. These wavey lane delineators have been part of pilot programs across the country, and now they're available to anyone or any group interested. Learn more at bikefixation.com

This week Kyle is joined by Melissa Balmer, Founder and Director of PedalLove.org - a non-profit cultivating the power of storytelling to elevate the voice and impact of women for creating more active, mindful mobility for everyone. Melissa discusses the role of storytelling in advocacy, provides examples for how personal narratives can combine with data, and provides context for stories play in diversifying the representation of participants making change around the world. Melissa and co-author Jay Walljasper will release their new book “The Surprise Promise of Bicycling for America” later this spring https://goo.gl/ep1UTX.

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The Bike Nerds kick off 2019 with a bang! Sara is joined by Carolyn Finney, assistant professor of geography at the University of Kentucky and author of “Black Faces, White Spaces” (https://goo.gl/ZsemNT) to discuss the how identity and representation influence participation in outdoor recreational activities by people of color. Carolyn was a lead organizer of REI’s “5 Ways to Make the Outdoors More Inclusive” (https://goo.gl/oKeWgX), a detailed step-by-step action plan for making our public spaces accessible and culturally relevant to everyone.

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Sara and Kyle reflect on a busy 2018 - taking note of the amazing guests and breadth of topics covered in the third year of Bike Nerds podcasting. Sara kicks off the show with big announcement, Kyle still like Star Wars, and the episode concludes with a montage of 2018’s best guests and moments. Happy holidays to all out great listeners! We’ll nerd out more in the New Year!

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his week, Sara and Kyle are joined by BNP superfan - Barb Chamberlain! Barb currently works as the Director of the Active Transportation Division at Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT), but has a storied career and legacy of public service first as an elected official and later staffing bicycle advocacy organizations across the Pacific Northwest. Barb and the Bike Nerds talk about Twitter as an archive of online notes; Barb reflects on her time as an elected official drawing comparisons to women being elected today; and Sara gets to the bottom of what it means to be an “advocrat” working at a state-level DOT.

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It’s been a busy couple of weeks for the Bike Nerds - Sara got married and Kyle is on vacation. Never fear, though - we’ve got a top notch episode featuring Lane Santa Cruz from Tucson, Arizona. Lane and Kyle spend the first part of the episode discussing Lane’s doctoral studies looking at systems of education and the inherent bias and racism that exists within them. They discuss why representation matters (in the classroom and elsewhere) and education serving as both a tool to overcome and as an actualized form of oppression and systemic racism. Finally, they transition to how the lessons of our educational system relate to our work as bike advocates.

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Kyle is joined this week by Martha Roskowski, a legendary figure of bicycle advocacy with experience at every level - local, state, and nationally - working to make bicycling better. Last year, Martha was presented with a new opportunity to dive deep into a policy issue that impacts bicycling everywhere: PARKING (for cars). Her year-long research included interviews with people on the front lines of advocacy and development to paint a picture of how making space for parking is driving how cities develop and limiting our ability to make room for modes of transportation beyond cars.

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Sara is joined this week by Katie Hargrave and Brett Hunter, partners in the socially engaged art collective, Like Riding A Bicycle. Katie and Brett began the collective in 2014 and have been using their training as artists to facilitate public engagement using a variety of creative methods ,interaction styles, and capabilities. By starting with the assumption that the place is already made and that their role is to support the people, culture, and history of what already exists in a place, they design projects that listen to multiple perspectives, respond to local contexts, and nourish the ways communities have power. Listeners can read more about their methodology and work here: https://goo.gl/2vVw9T.

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Fresh off their recent visit to New Orleans, the Bike Nerds welcome Rich Neimand, President of social impact marketing firm Neimand Collaborative. Rich and his team recently helped conduct and analyze a research project commissioned by PeopleForBikes to better understand how bicycle advocates can use public communications and messaging tools as a way to build broader support for implementing bicycle infrastructure. Kyle sat down with Rich following the conclusion of their presentation at the Walk Bike Places 2018 conference and got all of the highlights for the Bike Nerds’ listeners. Additional information and resources can be accessed at peopleforbikes.org/activatingsupport.

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Sara is joined this week by Michelle Poyourow, Senior Associate at Jarrett Walker + Associates to discuss the changing nature of modality in cities, how the concept of “shared” or “public” space is both the challenge and the opportunity for city builders, and the role that “change” plays in motivating local behaviors and perceptions when presented with an idea to create more complete streets.

In the build up to the 100th episode, the Bike Nerds are seeking listener feedback on the show - they want to read your comments live on the air! Also, if you’ve got an idea for a closing tag line, the Bike Nerds want your suggestions and will pick a winner from listener feedback. Touch base with the Bike Nerds on Twitter, Facebook, or email to leave your feedback. Even better - leave a review on iTunes!

The Bike Nerds Podcast is sponsored Bike Fixation by Saris. Visit www.bikefixation.com/bikenerds for a full array of bicycle parking and infrastructure products.

This week Sara sits down with Colin Murphy, Director of Research and Consulting at Shared-Use Mobility Center to discuss the emergence of new mobility options, services, and devices that cities are grappling with today. Colin discusses why transportation options are growing in cities, the speed at which they are growing, and how cities are reacting to both new technologies and users. This episode has a little bit of everything - public transit, dockless bike share, scooters, transportation network companies - so much to share! (See what we did there?)

In the build up to the 100th episode, the Bike Nerds are seeking listener feedback on the show - they want to read your comments live on the air! Also, if you’ve got an idea for a closing tag line, the Bike Nerds want your suggestions and will pick a winner from listener feedback. Touch base with the Bike Nerds on Twitter, Facebook, or email to leave your feedback. Even better - leave a review on iTunes!

The Bike Nerds Podcast is sponsored Bike Fixation by Saris. Visit www.bikefixation.com/bikenerds for a full array of bicycle parking and infrastructure products.