Bike Talk

Journey of a bike advocate. Goes on bike ride - smile emoji Experiences the danger - shocked emoji Approaches city council - straight face emoji nothing changes angry enoji person throwing a molotov cocktail Dreams of ending car culture

It all happened so fast.

@thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

Never mind, just needed email

Paywall- is there a free version?

Opinion | These bike laws are tyranny on wheels Policymakers are making a basic form of transportation and a familiar element of childhood less accessible.

My piece in the Washington Post! E-bike as a personal liberty issue & a great case for bike advocacy toward right leaning folks @waba.org ‪@princetonyimby.bsky.social‬ @electrek.co @bikegillian.bsky.social @usa.streetsblog.org @biketalk.bsky.social @ggwash.org www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

"We know these drivers are deadly. We know how to stop them. We just need states to have the political will to do this."

-- Amy Cohen, FSS co-founder on @biketalk.bsky.social

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Here in Nebraska , extreme speeding is on the rise, our State Patrol issuing a decade high 354 tickets for speeds of 100 mph or more during the summer of '25-up from 349 the previous year. A top speed of 165 mph was recorded. Tickets for 100+ mph have increased from 335 in2020 to over 350+ recently.

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26/06 Solidarity - Bike Talk St. Paul, Minnesota rider and cartoonist Andy Singer drops in virtually to talk about the recent Alex Pretti memorial ride (1:09). A spec Super Bowl ad for kids biking and walking to school by Tom Flo...

Toronto's bicycle mayor @alilabanane.bsky.social was recently featured on @biketalk.bsky.social talking about the upcoming Femmes & Friends bike fair on Sunday, March 8 (a.k.a. International Women's Day) and issues women face when cycling. #BikeTO #TOpoli biketalk.org/2026/02/26-0...

Back riding the lanes in the sun. With electric assist turned up. @biketalk.bsky.social Earlswood Lakes. Beauty spot and reservoir for our canal network

Listen to part 1 of 2 of my interview with @norton.bsky.social about his books, robotaxis, and changing social norms around how streets are used

26/07 Holding The Line Get a Bike Talk Sticker for your positive review. Listener email: Desmond on winter Riding and specifically mittens that attach to your handlebars, called pogies (1:41). The City of Los Angeles is s

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If you're going to drive, the car should at least have an alternative transportation podcast sticker.

The City of LA is about to give back millions of dollars of previously won money for active transportation projects because it can’t build things in any reasonable amount of time.

Hey- I can think of no better place for one of our iconic stickers. We’ll send you two big and two little stickers for a pic of your Bike Talk review on Apple or Spotify.

I’m starting to think of Bluesky’s self-selective membership as a benefit.

26/06 Solidarity Listener Sean in Montana writes a good review for stickers. St. Paul, Minnesota rider and cartoonist Andy Singer drops in virtually to talk about the recent Alex Pretti memorial ride (1:09). A spe

Super Bowl edition @sharrows.bsky.social @kennethmejiala.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social soundcloud.com/biketalk/26-...

2605 Our Streets Taylor and Nick agree that scarves are for everyone. Parker S rode in the Minneapolis Alex Pretti memorial ride 1/31 and shares what it was like (6:52). Listener Rick Bosacker writes that bike rides

So much. @shabazzstuart.bsky.social @nyc.streetsblog.org @streetsblogla.bsky.social soundcloud.com/biketalk/260...

26/04 One of Us Alex Pretti, murdered by ICE in Minneapolis, was a bike rider. Laura Groenjes Mitchell of Our Streets Minneapolis and Brett Macgraw of the West Metro Active Transportation Alliance share a multi-city

Alex Pretti rides and all weather bikers @lauragmitchell.com @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social @pattybikes.com @mommypedals.bsky.social @bestsidecycling.com
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Kyle Lucas speaking to a large number of people with their bikes by the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center

A large number of people on bikes crossing an intersection, with some police SUVs around with lights on

The memorial spot for Alex Pretti, with signs, photographs, flowers, and candles

A bike with flowers on the back and a cardboard sign that says Abolish ICE

Some photos from the Chicago memorial ride for Alex Pretti, where lots of folks came out in solidarity with similar rides across the country.

Organized by @babski.bsky.social and @bikegridnow.org, with remarks from Kyle Lucas from @betterstreetschicago.org

a group of cyclists heading up market street on a winter afternoon

a salty chug wearing pink doggles in a bike backpack in San Francisco civic center, stopping to listen to a rousing speech before continuing to ride in honor of Alex Petti

The Alex Pretti ride was more of a ride than I'd anticipated. It was very good to be in community with all sorts of riders, but I was mentally prepared for cruising through the Mission shouting, not hoisting my chunk up 1000 feet of elevation in Seacliff on my 8-spd .

I ❤️ Minneapolis

This ride was incredible, especially our interactions with folks at the memorials and with neighbors cheering on from their windows/porches.

ICE out, now.

Mamdani announces new settlement securing millions for delivery workers More than $5 million will be distributed to roughly 50,000 workers who were underpaid by app companies.

📰 BIG WIN for #Deliveristas — featured in @MotherJones by @nlanard!

@NYCMayor, @helloDCWP & the organizing power of @LosDeliveristas just secured $5M back in workers’ pockets + @UberEats will reinstate up to 10K wrongly deactivated deliveristas.

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Huge group of cyclists slowly passing the site where Alex Pretti was murdered

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Photo of Alex Pretti ride in Oakland CA

Photo of Alex Pretti ride in Oakland CA

At the Oakland Ride for Alex Pretti today. In memory of one our own, fallen but not forgotten.

ICE Out.

Crowd at Lee Martinez park.

An American flag in the crowd.

Crowd on the road

“Ice is a public jobs program for losers” on a bike crate

Big turnout in Fort Collins for the Alex Pretti ride.

26/04 Riding With ICE and Snow - Bike Talk Alex Pretti, murdered by ICE in Minneapolis, was a bike rider. Laura Groenjes Mitchell of Our Streets Minneapolis and Brett Macgraw of the West Metro Active Transportation Alliance share a multi-city ...

Thanks Dave! You mean: biketalk.org/2026/01/26-0...

Alex Pretti shooting ‘eye opening’ for bike industry in Minneapolis area This story is corrected to show that the social media account that repeated Angry Catfish's post about Alex Pretti was not an official Surly account. It also contains more details of forthcoming memor...

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"We can do both!!!"

OK but we don't; we only do the significantly less effective victim blaming, not changing infrastructure or policy, drivers not having to change or even consider their behaviour one.

A flyer that says we ride in unity, for all for Alex, with Alex’s face on it Saturday 1/31 1:00 meet 130 roll Wagshburn fair oaks park Ride together stand together

On Saturday we ride for Alex Pretti
1:00pm at Washburn Fair Oaks Park

From Angry Catfish:
“We're asking folks to host rides and come together. Bike shops and non-profits, cycling orgs and alt cycling collectives, city and rural. We are many but we stand together as one.”