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And, speaking of New York... This showed up on StreetsblogSF. It originates with NYCBike Maps. The video shows how New York is on the forefront of cutting-edge street design with its separated bike lanes, car-free pedestrian walk ways and plazas. If we can make it there, we can make it anywhere! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | NPR: Biking in New York There will be an excellent podcast with former Bogata Columbia mayor Enrique Peñalosa eventually after I take care of some family issues, I promise! In the meantime, listen to this great NPR segment about biking in NY with The Bike Snob. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | East Oakland Rides It's going down! July 25th 2pm Lake Merritt 468 Perkins St. You don't want to miss this!! its going to be off the chain!!!Bikes 4 Life 2nd Annual Peace Bike Ride ending at Defremery Park 3pm 1651 Adeline St Oaklandin collaboration w/ 100 yr anniversary of Oakland Park & Rec (celebration, food, and entertainment)for more info email admin@bikes4life.com510-238-8080 ext. 310 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | San Francisco bike culture matures as bike plan is adopted After nearly three years of stalemate due to a court injunction, the San Francisco Bicycle Plan has its environmental impact report unanimously certified by the Planning Department and is adopted by the Municipal Transportation Agency.The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition turned out over two hundred supporters for the MTA meeting to speak in favor of the plan. Friends of Bikescape, Nancy Botkin and Mike Smith joined me and my partner Karen Franklin to discuss how the meeting went and how bike ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | KQED discussion about San Francisco Bike Plan While you wait for my take on last week's MTA meeting that approved the log stalled San Francisco Bicycle plan, here's an hour long round table discussion that aired this morning on KQED's Forum.Guests were • Charlie O'Hanlon, owner of Charlie's Place on 17th St. in San Francisco • Jamie Whitaker, vice president of the Rincon Hill Neighborhood Association • Judson True, media relations manager for the San Francisco MTA • Leah Shahum, executive director of the San Francis ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | San Francisco Bike Plan almost back on track On June 26, 2009, the SFMTA Board unanimously voted to adopt the long delayed Bike Plan and gave the green light to 45 new bike lanes. This was the result of three years of intense SF Bicycle Coalition advocacy culminating with a very impressive show of grassroots support at the MTA meeting where over to hundred supporters showed up to speak.The next step is to bring this to court and have the tree year long injunction lifted so that work can begin on doubling the number of bike lanes in t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Traffic Calming in The Chech Republic Courtesy of Urban Repairs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | bikescape's fifth bike to work day and a rally for transit Another year goes by and another bigger and better Bike to Work Day beats expectations. We visit the San Francisco City College Campus and chat with Gus from The Bikery. Then we bike across town to hand out goodies at the Chinatown energizer station where we meet San Francisco's only car-free supervisor, Board President David Chiu.But its not all about bikes! It seems that across the nation, just when transit use is unprecedentedly high, fares are going up and service is getting cut. We go ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bike bloggers meet-up in Sacramento Recently I was in Sacramento where coincidentally the Amgen Tour of California was holding its opening time trial. I stopped into the R-16 bar to have a few beers with some of my favorite bloggers. It was noisy. There was beer.Still, I think the conversations I had with Paul Dorn from the Bike Commute Tips Blog, (right) Fritz from Cycleicious, and David Bernstein, voice of the Fredcast (left) are worth a listen. (That's your host with the headphones!)Download the mp3 orsubscribe to Bikesca ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Two Cities: Hong Kong and San Francisco A visit with family offers a chance to report from Hong Kong. We visit the densest square kilometer on Earth then ride in bike paradise Lantau Island. Along the way, we meet Martin Turner of the Hong Kong Bicycle Alliance and stop in at the stylish RodaFixa bike shop.Then back home in San Francisco, The Bicycle Coalition kicks off the Big 56 Campaign as the long awaited Bike Plan awakes from the court injunction.Pictured: Brian and Woods from hkfixedDownload the mp3 orsubscribe to Bikesca ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Getting around in Hong Kong I'm on vacation visiting family in Hong Kong and I couldn't resist shooting some geeky transportation videos to post here. Bear in mind that these were shot on a cheap casio camera that I only just learned could be used for video. So its rough but hopefully illustrative of my uninformed impressions.Where are the bikes, you ask? Stay tuned for a full on audio podcast to come some time in the next month.Here are some off-the-cuff impressions of high density living, Hong Kong style in the uppe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Interview with Gary Fisher In this episode we welcome the legendary Gary Fisher to the show for a long, rambling chat. We talk about growing up in Marin County during the dawn of mountain biking, the growth of the industry he and his friends started. We also touch on the future of bicycling as the business gears up to tap the new markets that want bicycles for every day transportation and the massive infrastructure changes that will be necessary.After the interview there's an update on the Octavia Blvd and Market St ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Urbanist President One overlooked advantage of the Obama win is that we are going to have the first non-suburban or rural president in recent memory. His years as an inner city community organizer tell us a lot about how he'll lead but underlying all of that is a deep understanding of how cities work and what makes them succeed or fail. Obviously transit, walkability and cycling are an integral part of urban living whereas parking lots and freeways invariably cause its downfall. Still, it was a pleasant surpr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Urbanist President One overlooked advantage of the Obama win is that we are going to have the first non-suburban or rural president in recent memory. His years as an inner city community organizer tell us a lot about how he'll lead but underlying all of that is a deep understanding of how cities work and what makes them succeed or fail. Obviously transit, walkability and cycling are an integral part of urban living whereas parking lots and freeways invariably cause its downfall. Still, it was a pleasant surpr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Endless Tour with Cindy and Tim Travis Tim and Cindy Travis have been on the road on their bikes since 2001. They checked in with Bikescape when they passed through San Francisco. Here's the interview.Download the mp3 orsubscribe to Bikescape in itunesVisit Tim and Cindy's website to stay in touch with their travels and order their books here. The first chapter of The Road That Has No End is available in audio format!Bikescape is now a member of the Streetsblog Network!Transportation for America is the antidote to the Freeway lo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Press release sustainability vs. the real thing Our Mayor Newsom just uploaded a set of videos as a state of the sity speech with forty minutes devoted to transportation and another forty to the environment.Sorry Gavin, but your show just doesn't hold a candle to what they're doing in Amsterdam where they make a serious investment in sustainability. (ht to Pascal at Velomondial) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Press release sustainability vs. the real thing Our Mayor Newsom just uploaded a set of videos as a state of the sity speech with forty minutes devoted to transportation and another forty to the environment.Sorry Gavin, but your show just doesn't hold a candle to what they're doing in Amsterdam where they make a serious investment in sustainability. (ht to Pascal at Velomondial) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Press release sustainability vs. the real thing Our Mayor Newsom just uploaded a set of videos as a state of the sity speech with forty minutes devoted to transportation and another forty to the environment.Sorry Gavin, but your show just doesn't hold a candle to what they're doing in Amsterdam where they make a serious investment in sustainability. (ht to Pascal at Velomondial) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | around the world by bicycle As Bikescape marks its third birthday, Victor Weinreber sets out on a bike trip around the world that will take at least that long. We meet up with him as he finishes his warm-up trip across the USA and prepares to start the actual trek which begins and ends in San Francisco.Download the mp3 orgo to Bikescape in itunesRead Victor's journal and diaries of other long distance bike tourers.Victor sent links about the tools he uses on his trip, such as his cool, home built LED lights, his water ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | return of the scorcher Podcasts are on hold while I my ibook goes through a permissions nightmare. In the meantime, this film from 1992 by Ted White that inspired the name for Critical Mass should keep you occupied...Return of the Scorcher Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | WNYC on biking in New York WNYC ran an excellent segment on the bicycle renaissance in New York.Listen here Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | getting hyphy with bikes in oaktown Over at London's Bike Show presenter Jack Thurston revels in a most civilised form of tweedy touring. He's posted two very charming videos about English touring in the fifties.Meanwhile, in the streets of Oakland, the kids get hyphy with bikes instead of cars. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | bike polo, anyone? The all but forgotten sport of bike polo is "a most noble tradition invented in Ireland 117 years ago." Now its enjoying a sudden resurgence in American parks both on turf and on hard tops. Bikescape checks in at a jaunty match at Speedway Meadow in Golden Gate Park. Then we celebrate a victory as the park inaugurates car-free Saturdays on JFK Drive.Listen to the podcast orgo to Bikescape in itunesMallets and balls provided. Bring your own refreshments. Everybody welcome.Some of the players ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Its not easy being green: Judge stops San Francisco bike plan on environmental grounds Last week San Francisco’s cyclists woke up to find out that the city’s bicycle plan, a comprehensive road map to an integrated bike network had been put on hold by a judge’s temporary injunction in response to a lawsuit by Citizens for Adequate Review. (C.A.R.)How could we arrive a time when a healthy, sustainable, and environmentally sound plan to provide transportation choice could run aground because of lack of environmental review? Could it be because the metrics we use to arrive at a c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | russian hill roulette auteur frank chan In this episode we meet Frank Chan, the maker of the films I podcasted yesterday. Don't forget to stop by the Zeitgeist Film Fest on Monday, June 12 to meet Frank and see his and other great films. Listen to the podcast orgo to Bikescape in itunes The film was followed by a brief clip from the tour Josh Hart led of the six steepest hills in San Francisco. Check out the photos and more film clips here. Take a look at the Times Up! site to get details about the car-free Central Park ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | bike to work day, 2006 A year goes by and we celebrate another bike to work day. Bikescape follows the working masses to their jobs but takes the day off to make a podcast. We meet some friends and dignitaries and talk about the current state of urban cycling. Then, as usual, we take a look at upcoming events in the world of biking and go through the mailbag.Listen to the podcast orgo to Bikescape in itunesBike to Work Day breaks records in San FranciscoMike Kasolis, Vice Chair of the San Francisco Metropolitain ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | running on fumes The price of gasoline is rising and an unprepared country confronts its addiction. As we hit bottom amid oil wars and looming petro-breakdown, Bikescape looks for signs that the denial is wearing thin. Come along for the ride as we talk with bikers getting ready for Critical Mass and drivers getting their fix at the local gas station.Note: This podcast was finished moments before I handed my laptop to the repair shop for a week. It wasn’t till this morning that I noticed that the backround ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | velodromes and bikestations After a month of vacation Bikescape returns with a lot of odds and ends. First we take a few laps around the Encino Velodrome. Then Scott Mace reports from the San Francisco Caltrain Station where ground was broken for the new bike station. (scroll down) After that we get caught up on the effort to ban cars from JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park and check the calendar for upcoming events.Listen to the podcast orgo to Bikescape in itunesHere's a video clip of the national team paracticing the mo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | park or parking lot? What is an urban park? Is it a social public space, friendly to cyclists and walkers or a parking lot for museum visitors and a traffic sewer for cross-town traffic? Bikescape spends Sunday in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park where the fight is on to ban cars from JFK drive on Saturdays just like they are now on Sundays. Listen to the podcast orgo to Bikescape in itunes The Healthy Saturdays Initiative will open JFK Drive to cyclists, roller bladers and walkers on Saturdays. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Songs in the key of bike A simple podcast of bicycle inspired music. (NO QUEEN!)Listen to the podcast orgo to Bikescape in itunesBicycle by Pfilbryte.I took the soundtrack from a film about the 30,000 strong Budapest Critical Mass for one song.Senior Coconut covers Tour de France by Kraftwerk.Sambaguru, featuring Katia Moreas will be playing in Studio City next week.Mireille Mathieu, Les Biciclettes de BelsizeYou can't have a podcast like this without a song like Cars by the Desperate Bicycles Slow Down... a sent ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fetish for fixies This week we explore the mystique and magic of the fixed gear bicycle. Meet some san francisco messengers as they tell us why they ride these edgy and sexy bikes.Listen to the podcast hereor go straight to bikescape in ItunesRob mentioned Bay Area master frame builder Bernie MikkelsenDuring bikesummer '04 in NY I went for a ride with some guys from Old Skool Track. I'm the second from the left in this picture from Orchard Beach in Da BronxPhoto credit: Old Skool Track Sheldon Brown's site h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Mona Caron's Market Street Railway Mural Here's another installment in Bikescape's ongoing examination of San Francisco's main stem, Market Street. Every city has a Market Street where people, communities and history collide daily in the battle over the commons. This time we rejoin muralist Mona Caron as she guides us on a tour of her landmark mural that asks the question. What is a street for? Listen to the podcast orgo to Bikescape in itunes If you can't make it to the mural in person, tour it (and her other wo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Transportation for a livable city A balanced and sustainable transportation system, along with land use that will support it can turn cities into places where people actually talk to each other and community can flourish. Bikescape visits Tom Radulovich at Transportation for a Livable City to talk about how to make it happe n. Lis ten to the podcast orgo to Bikescape in itunes Here's a link to the song from last weeks show. Times Up! wants you to complain about the proposed NY helmet law. (Sc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Taking off the training wheels One never forgets one's first experience on two wheels. Bikescape reconnects with the feeling. Listen to the podcast orgo to Bikescape in itunes That's my brother (left) and me on the red schwinn with the solid rubber tires. Bikeboom is a great website for los angelenos with an open source calendar. (Anyone can post events) The bike kitchen is the web site for the folks who'll teach you how to tune your bike. Chris Carlsson will be leading his bike tour about San Francisc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Commuting together: The Genentech bike club Why ride alone when you can ride together? Bikescape joins the Genentech Bike Club as they splash through the rainy streets fifteen miles from San Francisco to their suburban office park. We talk of many things: food, dress, and cycle commuter accommodations in the corporate world. Listen to the podcast orgo to Bikescape in itunes We also visit Nelson Nygaard and Associates and talk to Adam Millard-Ball about planning for better transportation The Cranksgiving Alley Cat ride is happeni ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bridging the gap This week Bikescape looks for a way across the San Francisco Bay by bike. We look at the BART train and the Bay Bridge Bike Shuttle and take a peek into future possibilities. Listen to the podcast or go straight to Bikescape in itunes BART's bike rules Here's an old movie about the construction of the Bay Bridge Here's a link to the Bay Bridge bike shuttle Let's keep an eye on the Rincon Hill Plan and make sure room is left for a bicycle approach to the Bridge The Trans ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Riding with Pedal Express Bikescape leaves the urban jungle of San Francisco and crosses the Bay to the leafy college town of Berkeley. We visit the Berkeley Center for Appropriate Transportation and go for a ride with Pedal Express. Listen to the podcast orgo to Bikescape in itunes BCAT seems to not have a web site but the CAT in Eugene does. Some of the bikes used by Pedal Express Workbikes Missing Link Bicycle Cooperative and Inkworks Press (where I work) like Ped Ex are members of NOBAWC ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Busted flat in the big apple In the face of the NYPD's opposition, New York's critical Mass rides still. We talk to Michael Green and Jym Dyer about the current state of the ride. Listen to the podcast orgo straight to Bikescape in Itunes Music from Wendy Mae Chambers on the car horn organ The Rinky Dink Sound System song by David Rovics Send your money to Times Up! to help defray legal costs Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Mona's Mural In the spirit of Art Mobs Mona Caron takes us for an audio tour of her 340 foot long mural adorning San Francisco's Duboce St. Bikeway.Listen to the podcast orgo straight to Bikescape in itunesAn article from the San Francisco Chronicle about the opening.The Bicycle Film FestivalStill We Speak defends your your rights!Some say Leonardo da Vinci invented the bicycle. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | San Francisco's Courier Disaster Response Team How can bicyclists help out in a disaster? We find out when Bikescape talks with Serenity Enriquez who started the Bike Courier Disaster Response Team. Listen to the podcast or subscribe in itunes Serenity was awarded Local Hero Status by the San Francisco Bay Guardian NERT Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fetish for fixies This week we explore the mystique and magic of the fixed gear bicycle. Meet some san francisco messengers as they tell us why they ride these edgy and sexy bikes.Listen to the podcast hereor go straight to bikescape in ItunesRob mentioned Bay Area master frame builder Bernie MikkelsenDuring bikesummer '04 in NY I went for a ride with some guys from Old Skool Track. I'm the second from the left in this picture from Orchard Beach in Da BronxPhoto credit: Old Skool Track Sheldon Brown's site h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Laws and sausage They say you don't want to know how laws or sausage are made but Bikescape ignores all of that and visits City Hall in San Francisco to see the Bicycle Advisory Committee in action. Listen to the podcast here or go to Bikescape in Itunes The San Francisco Planning Department The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Trees not Cars and The Alliance for Golden Gate Park has been fighting against the garage in Golden Gate Park Bicyclists have a three times larger chance of suffering ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Marin county hits the jackpot Marin County, just north of the Golden Gate gets $25 million to improve bike and ped facilities. We talk with Deb Hubsmith of the Marin County Bicycle Coalition to find out how its going to be spent. Listen to the podcast or go to bikescape in itunes Take your bike on Golden Gate Transit from the East Bay to Marin. They have free wifi at Mt Tamalpais State Park!?! The non motorized transportation pilot program will also give $25M each to Columbia, MO, Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Cycling and community - a conversation with Chris Carlsson How does your choice of transportation create or destroy community? We talk with author, historian, co-originator of Critical Mass and my friend Chris Carlsson to get some insight. Listen to the podcast orgo directly to Bikescape in itunes Buy or download these and others of Chris' books at Full Enjoymment Books. More links that Chris sent me- www.shapingsf.org www.processedworld.com www.lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | James Howard Kunstler - "The Long Emergency" Bikescape talks about the efffects of peak oil with James Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century . "The circumstances of the Long Emergency will require us to downscale and re-scale virtually everything we do and how we do it, from the kind of communities we physically inhabit to the way we grow our food to the way we work and trade the products of our work. Our lives will ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Market St., San Francisco's "Main Stem" Bikescape takes a long (51 mins!) look at San Francisco's main drag, Market Street. San Francisco Bicycle Coalition program director Andy Thornley and in a cameo appearance, Robin Levitt of Octavia Blvd podcast (scroll down) fame take us for a tour of the street cyclists love to hate. Listen to the podcast If you observe vehicles parked illegally, you can call the DPT Enforcement Division directly at 553-1631 Bike polo! San Francisco's Bike Kitchen needs a new home Ride the d ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bike Summer, LA Part 2 Another Bikesummer day in Los Angeles and more bike fun ensues. This week bikescape presents impressions of LA's nascient bike culture as manifested in in one of the big group rides, Critical Mass. Listen to the podcast Midnight Ridazz doesn't seem to have a web site but you can read about it here. It was covered in the LA Times and blogged at Cicle.org. Critical Mass ended at Hollywood and Vine were we attended the Bicycle Film Festival where Still we Ri ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bike Summer LA Part 1 Bikescape takes the Calshuttle to LA for a few days of Bike Summer, a month of activities designed to promote biking and bike culture. We meet with the folks at the Bicycle Kitchen and the volunteers of Times Up! We also met with Tomatoes who led a single speed cruiser race. Listen to the podcast Send an email to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to demand a pedestrian oasis in Golden Gate Park! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Trust your mechanic This week we go to American Cyclery to visit with mechanic Bike Dave. We talk about bike lanes, bike theft, how to keep your chain clean and lubed and so much more. Listen to the podcast Beware of stolen bikes at some used bike shops! Transportation for a Livable City would like help promoting some assmbly bills in California. -j Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Heavy pedal cyclecide! This week Bikescape takes the family to the County Unfair and we walk the pedal powered midway. Then we take in the Life-size Mousetrap game.Listen to the podcastEsmerelda Strange performed. Meet her and get some of her songs here.Señor CoconutMore links to come in a coupla days.-j Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | World Environment Day The United Nations returns to its (and Critical Mass's) birthplace in San Francisco to stage World Environment Day. Bikescape takes a walk through some exhibits and attends the Green Cities panel discussion. We look for something to be hopeful about and come up decidedly short. Listen to the podcast The Scrap House was built by the San Francisco Building Inspections Dept and Public Architecture. The SF Weekly ran a great article about the connection between housing and biking. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |