22nd December 2022

The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast

EPISODE 317: Masterplanning Milan: Real Estate Developer Reshaping the City With Active Travel

SPONSOR: Tern Bicycles

HOST: Carlton Reid

GUEST: Stefano Corbella, Sustainability Officer, COIMA, Milan

TOPICS: Parking Minimums, Forests In the Sky and Dutch-style cyclist roundabouts in Milan

LINKS:

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SHOWNOTES: https://www.the-spokesmen.com/

HOST: https://twitter.com/CarltonReid

COIMA REAL ESTATE, MILAN: https://www.coima.com/en/homepage

BOSCO VERTICALE: https://www.coima.com/en/media/press-releases/bosco-verticale-named-one-of-the-worlds-50-most-iconic-skyscrapers-of-the

DUTCH-STYLE ROUNDABOUT: https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/a-modern-amsterdam-roundabout/

CYCLOPS JUNCTION: https://cities-today.com/uks-first-cyclops-junction-opens-in-manchester-to-boost-bike-safety/

 

Carlton Reid  0:13  
Welcome to Episode 317 of the Spokesmen cycling podcast. The show was engineered on Thursday 22nd of December 2022.

David Bernstein  0:27  
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Carlton Reid  1.01
In the previous episode, I had a coffee and a cycle-related chat in the new Eroica cafe in downtown Milam. I'm Carlton Reid, and apologies for my croaky voice—I was at a Newcastle United match last night and may have shouted a wee bit. Anyway, the visit to Milan was a research trip to visit Porto Nueva, a formerly neglected part of the city, but which has been transformed by urban developers such as COIMA. The most famous part of this regeneration project is COIMA-commissioned Bosco Verticalle, or vertical forest, two high rise apartment buildings covered in trees and plants. I was part of a study group given a quick and inspirational tour of the tallest of these towers, and from near the top, I could see some of Milan's new protected cycleways. I also spotted a Dutch-style roundabout and a Cyclops-style staggered road junction on a busy arterial. Later, I interviewed COIMA-sustainability officer Stefano Corbella at this junction, and then we walked through an urban park built over another arterial and chatted about the changing face of Milan and how private developers work with cities on increasing the number of active travel journeys.

Carlton Reid  2:16  
Stefano, where are we are we are we in Milan right now overlooking this road? What is this road? 

Stefano Corbella  2:43  
This is Via Melchiorre Gioia, one of the main streets that connects the outskirts of Northern Milan, to the to the city centre going towards the Brera neighbourhood, one of the most historic and nice

neighbourhoods in Milan. 

Carlton Reid  3:04  
So, we're on a pedestrian bridge over the road, yeah, flanked by each side by bike paths, how new are those bike paths here? 

Stefano Corbella  3:13  
Yeah, those bike lanes we developed as part of the Porta Nuova development.

There was nothing at all before we started working on the project. And we added approximately four kilometres of cycling path integrated with later other development that the city of Milan is done. 

Carlton Reid  3:38  
So this road was wider here. So there was more lanes for cars. And you've taken one lane away. 

Given to the cyclists and the pedestrians?

Stefano Corbella  3:48  
Exactly, exactly. And this was part of the bigger master plan that connected the four neighbourhoods and around because the Porta Nuova project stands for about one kilometres in length. And for a total of 190,000 square metre of total masterplan, which include the park and so on. So the it was important for us to create

a connection for pedestrian cycling, separated by, by design with from the vehicle or vehicle or roads. 

Carlton Reid  4:25  
So we're not just walking past where you work. For COIMA. You're the sustainability officer. Founded in 1974,

which is the developer of a number of plots, projects in Milan, but we are now walking through

into the park. So what's this park? 

Stefano Corbella  4:46  
This is BAM, Biblioteca degli Alberi di Milano, is a park that we developed on behalf of the city of Milan and then now we manage to an agreement with the city and we take care about

Security, maintenance, but also and most important cultural activity and culture activation in in our neighbourhood. 

Carlton Reid  5:10  
And we are higher than road level here. 

Stefano Corbella  5:14  
Exactly. 

Carlton Reid  5:14  
So this is on stilts this is your this has been built up above the arterial road or the rest of the road. 

Stefano Corbella  5:21  
Yeah, on top of the road. Yeah, exactly one of the key issues of this master plan. And the challenges that we face when we started the design was the fact that the Melchiorre Gioia,  and Via Della Liberazione were cutting in four corner it was to street just cut the, the entire site in the middle. So in order to make the public spaces more appealing, more quality to give quality spaces, we lift everything up about six metre. And we work with the landscaper to gently make the landscaper not even perceiving these six metre differences between ease or a neighbourhood that is down there with the Bosco Verticale. And the Piazza Gae Aulenti,  that is here where we are walking at the moment. 

Carlton Reid  6:16  
So describe because this is the famous one that many people will have seen photographs of I'm sure what we can see now the as you said at the Bosco Verticale, so what is what is this? 

Stefano Corbella  6:25  
it's

Bosco Verticale is a residential development, there are two towers, which we design with the I think the smart idea and interesting idea to implement trees, but I mean real trees, we have trees, about four metre high, five metre high in the balcony of the, of the,

design because it was nothing new in some ways because there are plenty of green spaces on balcony but this scale that we put into this project and the size of the trees that was the you know the the things that was pretty new. 

Carlton Reid  7:28  
Was it 2015 when it was finished? 

Stefano Corbella  7:30  
Yes, pretty much. 

Carlton Reid  7:32  
And then no well now what so we won't be hearing the the car noise any more because it's it's as you say six metres below us. Yeah. So come into a very modern Deluxe office complexes are parked over that way but this is still a very vibrant space Yes 6pm at night.

But tell me what this was before before that obviously the road is here. But now what is this whole area what was it?

Stefano Corbella  8:02  
It was a former railway yard. It was used in the beginning of the 19th century, then the train line was pushed back a little better. And but the area was left there for decades now with the abandoned railway with the you know nothing. They're only you know, ground polluted by you know, the things that happen in in a railway and in the municipality of Milan and other developers try to develop the area for decades until a back in 2004, 2005 COIMA with the joint venture of investor started the development of Porta Nuova and with the with the entire site in one go, no and that was pretty amazing because finally, the project succeeded. We have been lucky that different mayor of Milan that pass through the time that we build everything

promoted the site promoted the development so we have been able to complete the project in fairly good time and at the end that we completed.

Carlton Reid  9:21  
So your colleague Kelly in one of her talks of the day was talking about how when Isola when that was like reconnected yeah so you could you could then walk across from Yeah, in fact the park to go across you no longer had to go across the railway line or the busy road. That was a very joyous. 

Stefano Corbella  9:39  
Absolutely. Isola in the Italian word and in English is highlands and highlands because was surrounded by the former railway yard. And in order to get there from the city centre was a kind of a journey because you have to go through the railway. You have to

a tunnel within the train. So it was not an easy travel despite the distance from each other and  Brera it few 100 metres but was completely blocked by the former railway yard. So when we open up the Piazza Gae Aulenti, and we have been able to connect it through that passage was was a kind of

joy moment for the residents of Isola. 

Carlton Reid  10:32  
And the bike infrastructure, the bike paths that are there now, were they planned originally or was this a later addition? 

Stefano Corbella  10:39  
No, no, it was all planned was all planned all the pathway. The design of the landscape was planned since the beginning. We build up in in phases, but there was a part of the plan that works, actually, after the project in the city of Milan also increased the connection further, because they

they find out that that was a good connection through Isola and the city centre. 

Carlton Reid  11:11  
So do you monitor as a developer do you monitor how many people are arriving by car, how many people arriving by metra, because we are surrounded by public transport here.

Stefano Corbella  11:22  
Yeah, yeah. 

Carlton Reid  11:23  
And how people many by bicycle? Foot? 

Stefano Corbella  11:25  
Yeah, we we have a close monitoring of the pedestrian footfall, which has now reached more than 10 million people here in the Piazza Gae Aulenti. We are working to increase that footfall to 15 millions in the next few years by

addressing the cultural events here, the leisure

people enjoy to live in Porta Nuova and better it is because make the site more attractive and more livable and so on.

Carlton Reid  12:09  
Now, COIMA is also involved in a Porto Ramona.

Ramona?

Stefano Corbella  12:17  
Porta Romana.

Porta Romana

Carlton Reid  12:20  
At least one of those is correct.

Which is going to be the site of in 2026, the Winter Olympic Village. 

Stefano Corbella  12:30  
Yeah.

Carlton Reid  12:31  
That has obviously the the student accommodation on top. Yeah, that's, that's, that's that's kind of your part of the development. But underneath, there's an awful lot of car parking space, which in today's presentation was was very much you know, this is a very boring bit, we're not going to talk about this very much we're going to what the surface stuff, but then there's an awful lot of space underneath — is it half? — is car parking. 

Stefano Corbella  13:02  
Exacty.

Carlton Reid  13:03  
So, is that

And I kinda know the answer to this is that the municipality having a parking code. So, if you have a development you need x number of car parking spaces?

Stefano Corbella  13:16  
Yeah, there is a national law which obliges new developments with certain end with a certain typology of building use to provide for parking space and that is a mandatory requirement. 

Carlton Reid  13:31  
So, there is no way you can avoid that?

Stefano Corbella  13:35  
There are only few places where you can not apply that law and is in within historic centre like Rome, because obviously, there is no physical space to create or you know, technical difficulties to create any basement in such a historic centres. But for other for other parts of typically, all the development has to provide that amount of capacity even though in some cases, we as a developer, we know that we will probably not need such amount of parking.

Carlton Reid  14:12  
This is student housing ...

Stefano Corbella  14:13  
Exactly 

Carlton Reid  14:14  
... you're building and students famously probably do not have their own cars so you will not need all that space.

Stefano Corbella  14:20  
What we have done, what we are doing, is that the first level of parking, we design and we will build with a slightly higher floor to ceiling height.

with in order to build up some flexibility to repurpose that area in the future if we will be able to change the use of that. 

Carlton Reid  14:42  
Do you think it will be used as parking during the Olympics for the month but you haven't yet but then maybe afterwards is you so no, no, I'm gonna say look forward and do so far with this law?

Stefano Corbella  14:53  
That is going to be a kappa there's no way we can change. One day if this law

will be no, no longer applicable. And because the car parking we expect that will be used less and less, especially in well connected cities, we will have a lot of space that is unfit. No? And so the idea is let's build a floor that would be able to accommodate other function. So to use the space, otherwise, we will have an empty space for nothing. 

Carlton Reid  15:25  
Yes. So many cities or many countries around the world are removing those or trying to remove those parking minimums, because this ...

Stefano Corbella  15:34  
France, London

if you're closer to public transportation, you have a derogation on that. 

Carlton Reid  15:41  
So, do politicians in Italy recognise that other countries are removing the parking minimums be no matter what other countries are doing we should remove parking minimums because from a sustainability point of view, parking minimums now kind of crazy. 

Stefano Corbella  15:57  
Yeah, I don't know.

I certainly hopw that with this will be taken into consideration by future legislation, because I think in some places make totally sense not to push for that amount of parking, because sometimes we believe is not needed. So it's a waste of money. It's

an impact on on the environment, because you build more space for for things, but we will see. Hopefully, they will at some point will be taken into consideration. 

Carlton Reid  16:35  
And going back to this development here. Again, something that I think it was Kelly, who mentioned this was that in the in the original master plan, the there was much more of the roads that are around here. were much, much worse, supposed to be much narrower. Yeah. cobbles, maybe. And it was the municipality who said no, leave it as a  highway now. So do developers, such as yourselves? Try and do things and municipalities, for whatever reasons, push back? Are developers actually, further ahead of what we need in this world? 

Stefano Corbella  17:21  
Sometimes, yes. But it is as as you know, it's it's a negotiation, you know, we may not see something that the municipality see or they have in the plan, what we can do is to try to demonstrate our, you know, thesis with calculation, we are the, and we always have

all the all the things works, and we don't want to necessarily narrow streets, because they look pretty, we want the street that works for the purpose of the function that have to do. So we have transport consultant. And if we believe that

street could be smaller is because there's there's a calculation that demonstrate a simulation that demonstrate that, but you know, is a negotiation with the municipality, and sometimes we win the discussion. Sometimes we lose the discussion. At the end of the day, I think the project is, is is is beautiful is a nice place. People love it. 

Carlton Reid  18:37  
So are he roads that are out, basically are outside of your development. So the exterior one, obviously the one that's coming through here, you're above it, you're not you're not interacting with  it below, but the ones outside. So that's the municipality who have put

the bike paths in? Or is there? 

Stefano Corbella  18:58  
No, no. As part of the in for this project, because it was so big. And in general for big, huge urban regeneration project.

There's uban agreement between the developer and the public authority, and typically happens that the developer has to pay taxes for the building that they built, and for the urbanisation, and that is two way, you can pay by cash to the municipality or you can give back in equal value infrastructure works. So we take we we've been taking care about the design of everything, including the public spaces, all the infrastructure, and we built on behalf of the city. And then once we completed the ownership

was given back to the city so we did everything and we gave back to the city

Carlton Reid  20:00  
Because outside when we're when we're very high up, and we're looking down at everything you had some from from I'm a I'm a bike geek. Yeah. I kind of know the infrastructure that's been built here. But there's like a roundabout. Yeah. With it's like Dutch style roundabout. Yeah, the priority to the cyclists go round it outside. And then at the junction where we started the UK, that's that's called a cyclops junction, where the red is for the pedestrians and the cyclists, it gets, you know, cyclists and pedestrians across these major, major junctions. So were they, you might have built them, did the municipality provide the designs for them? 

Stefano Corbella  20:44  
No, we did the also the design and we had to, you know, get their approval from the municipality. You know, everything has been designed and built by us. There are certain rules that we have to follow those design guidelines, specifically provided by the municipality, so we had to follow those guidelines. Once we completed the design, we gave back to the municipality for approval, we had to provide the bill of quantity than the cost because obviously, you have to match the equivalent of the taxes that you have to pay so and that has to be checked by a third party. And in order to match the equivalent amount of money that you have to give back through taxes. But the design is, is all by as, approved by the municipality. 

Carlton Reid  21:36  
At this point, let's take a quick commercial interlude with my colleague, David. 

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Carlton Reid  22:50  
Thanks, David. And we're back with COIMA's Stefan Corbella as we continue our amble through BAM. 

Rather than looking at this this particular project where we are now going just in general across maybe any number of projects that COIMA is involved now are going to be involved with

do you see the pedestrianisation that you have here and the bike paths? Do you see that as something that that's only going to get bigger and bigger and bigger in the future?

Stefano Corbella  23:23  
 I totally agree. In fact in Porta Romana, we are actually doing the same exactly the same things. Porta Romana has two lines of train cutting in the middle of the master plan. We are rising the landscape to get across with the park get across the railway. And we are building up like a bridge the

the forester spacer the suspended forest in this case, that cover with a pedestrian path, all the two train lines. So in the landscape will be way better. The train will pass without any any interruption. And most important pedestrian and cycling paths will pass without any trouble and problem without crossing any cars. 

Carlton Reid  24:19  
And so in the London Olympics, and I'm many of the Olympics, I guess there were the roads because London's a very congested city they had VIP Olympic lanes. So only a Olympic officials, athletes could drive in these lanes. Is that something that?

Stefano Corbella  24:39  
Yeah,

Well, the, the I'm not sure. What I know is that within the Olympic village or the there are there will be a protection around it. And certain parts of the street will be restricted for security purposes. But I'm not I'm not

aware about the street that is being given the VIP path? That I don't know. 

Carlton Reid  25:06  
Okay. And do you envisage athletes and people who are connected to the Olympics to use bikes to get around? 

Stefano Corbella  25:15  
I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know. 

Carlton Reid  25:19  
Because that isn't part of the sustainability plan. No, we need X amount of people to be not in cars? 

Stefano Corbella  25:26  
No, there is no requirement. Although all the Olympic village and the building that we are built, building, there is quite a huge cycling storage for the future student because we will build the Olympic village but then the buildings will be converted straight afterwards into the student housing. And the idea is to make it very design and the properly the building in order to make these changes very quickly. Because the academic year starts in September. So we want to be sure that we have the students that can use the buildings straight after the Olympic

Olympic season. 

Carlton Reid  26:14  
And every chain is only as strong as its weakest link. 

Stefano Corbella  26:19  
Yeah. 

Carlton Reid  26:19  
So as a developer, you may provide very, very good bike paths through Olympic village and through through here, etc. But then when people get outside of the perimeter there, then just the municipality, yeah, is what they provide. Now, do you lobby Do you ask the municipality look, if we're going to build all these fantastic bike lanes here, can you please make sure that this extends to the Duomo, extends to here, extends to the station? 

Stefano Corbella  26:52  
Yeah, it's, yeah, when we when, as I mentioned, we have traffic consultants in our projects. And obviously, we we check the continuity of the bike lane, and you know, not to build a bike lane that is 100 metre long and then start and stop in the middle of nothing. No, because that will be

will be okay, but a waste of money.

Carlton Reid  27:22  
So I know this is Isola as an island. But yeah, so you're not looking at a development as an island and you provide great stuff. You know that for the plan for it to work it has to be an area.

Stefano Corbella  27:35  
Yeah, yeah. And to be honest, at the beginning, I remember that the beginning of the project.

to tell you on other things is the city of Milan has changed the the mindset, in bike lane, in green areas, and so on. I remember 15 years ago, 20 years ago, the municipality or in general the city was sceptic about planting trees. Now the city of Milan has a plan to plant 3 million trees, now is completely change their mindset fortunately.

Carlton Reid  28:35  
I was in a brand new cafe that opened this afternoon on Via Tunisia. Eroica.

So that's a famous race in Italy. And this is the third cafe. And the manager who I was speaking to there, had had just been speaking to in fact, they left as as I came in, with the mayor

with about five or six people from the, from the municipality, yeah, talking to the manager and looking at this new cafe. Now, the managers said, and I know politicians will say anything, but the mayor said that they are very serious, very serious about getting rid of cars. 

Stefano Corbella  29:21  
Yeah, I know. 

Carlton Reid  29:22  
And is this something you've heard before? 

No, no, no.

Stefano Corbella  29:40  
it's a much more pleasant city with less cars, way more pleasant. And

Carlton Reid  29:48  
But is it feasible though? 

Stefano Corbella  29:52  
Yeah, yeah. I think I believe in certain in certain areas, with well connected public transportation

it should it could be feasible.

But, you know, we will see how we develop certainly is an improvement of quality of the city. That's for sure. 

Carlton Reid  30:11  
I should do my research here. But how long is the mayor being the mayor for? How long has he got left? And if if a city mayor went to the city's resident and said, I'm going to be taking lots of cars

out of the city, would that mayor be voted in again?

Stefano Corbella  30:31  
He just started his second mandate? So he has other almost four full years. He's just started the second mandate. So has a long way. 

Carlton Reid  30:44  
Would he be voted in again? And this is a hard question, but would he be voted in again if he had a plan to remove many cars? Is that something that you think Milan people would be? 

Stefano Corbella  30:53  
Well, that would be I think, Milan has several things. That will be one of the many. I'm not sure they will, these aspects will be key to

Carlton Reid  31:09  
being voted in again? 

Stefano Corbella  31:11  
I think there are many other reasons. I think he's done a very good job. And, you know, there's four years to, in front of us.

Carlton Reid  31:21  
So it's a good sign that he's he's going into a bike cafe. 

Stefano Corbella  31:24  
Exactly. That's definitely a good sign. 

Thanks to Stefano Corbella and thanks to you for listening to Episode 317 of the Spokesmen podcast. Links to COIMA' developments, including Bosco Verticale, can be found on the show notes at the-spokesmen.com. The next episode will be on the role of data in getting more people on bikes, but meanwhile have a Merry Christmas and here's to a green and happy New Year and, as always, get out there and ride ...

13th December 2022

The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast

EPISODE 316: Milan to banish cars, Mayor promises manager of Eroica Caffe 

SPONSOR: Tern Bicycles

HOST: Carlton Reid

GUEST: Andrea Benesso

TOPICS: Eroica cycling cafe in Milan.

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8th December 2022

The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast

EPISODE 315: World Champion Transportation Cyclist Beryl Burton — Book Chat With Author Jeremy Wilson

SPONSOR: Tern Bicycles

HOST: Carlton Reid

GUEST: Jeremy Wilson

TOPICS: The amazing

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17th November 2022

The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast

EPISODE 313: Tour de Luxe — riding with legends on Ibiza with upscale Leblanq

SPONSOR: Tern Bicycles

HOST: Carlton Reid

GUESTS: 

TOPICS: Balcony views, posh food, drafting behind legends — listen up for what guests think of their luxury bike break with LeBlanq in Ibiza. Carlton Reid also interviews Mark Cavendish and Johaan Museeuw while riding with them on the party island, and Leblanq cofounder Justin Clarke reveals why c-suite execs love rolling with world champions.

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4th November 2022

The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast

EPISODE 312: Good Move: How Bicycles Could End the Occupation of Cars in the EU capital of Brussels

SPONSOR: Tern Bicycles

HOST: Carlton Reid

GUESTS: Elke Van den Brandt, mobility minister for Brussels; Luxembourg councillor and EU Committee of the Regions rapporteur for mobility Linda Gaasch; Alison Abrahams from the Casual Cycling Club; Philip Amaral, policy directer of the European Cyclists’ Federation; Kim Smelter of the European Network Against Racism; and Philip Cerny, author of the European Mobility Atlas.

TOPICS: The burgeoning of bicycling in Brussels

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30th October 2022

The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast

EPISODE 311: You don't have to be horrible to win

SPONSOR: Tern Bicycles

HOST: Carlton Reid

GUESTS: Donna Tocci, Jim Moss

TOPICS: Roundtable discussion on Cav's chances of winning a stage of the 2023 Tour de France, Musk's takeover of Twitter, Mario Cipollini's three year prison sentence for domestic abuse, and will Denver's super popular e-bike rebate program reduce car trips?

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https://www.bicycling.com/racing/a41806102/mark-cavendish-new-team-has-already-won/

https://www.denverpost.com/2022/09/07/e-bikes-denver-rebate-program-data-replacing-car-trips/

https://www.bicycling.com/racing/a41690004/mario-cipollini-sentenced-to-three-years-in-prison/

https://www.bicycleretailer.com/opinion-analysis/2022/10/25/how-can-state-farm-sue-bicycle-manufacture-e-bike-fire#.Y165rC-l1qs

27th October 2022

The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast

EPISODE 310: Cycling legends roundtable with Mark Cavendish, Oscar Freire, Adam Blythe, Johan Museeuw & Matt Stephens

SPONSOR: Tern Bicycles

HOST: Carlton Reid

GUESTS: Mark Cavendish, Oscar Freire, Adam Blythe, Johan Museeuw & Matt Stephens

TOPIC: This roundtable discussion was recorded at LeBlanq's Joyride in Ibiza 

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10th October 2022

The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast

EPISODE 309: 

SPONSOR: Tern Bicycles

HOST: David Bernstein

GUESTS: Tim Jackson, Donna Tocci, Jim Moss, Carlton Reid

TOPICS:

Actual Topics Covered:
What is everyone up to these days?
The Hour Record
UCI Gravel Worlds
Cycling Tips Reporter Disallowed From Worlds in Australia
UCI Changes Rule to Combat Aero Advantages in Time Trials
Official at Finishing Line Gets Handsy with Lorena Wiebes
National Cycling League
Electric Bikes

David says:
Filippo Ganna’s Hour Record
Excellent WSJ Article “How Far Can You Ride a Bike in an Hour? Start With An Aerodynamicist”
The Armstrong $30,000 ride? I don’t know if I want to touch this one. Up to you all. (How about LA allegedly getting “weird” with women/ woman at a wedding he supposedly crashed? 
Central Park Activist

Tim says:
UCI Gravel Worlds
UCI is “sport washing” some bad actors, still/ again/ as always … (link?)Can’t I just rail, as always? (TIM- part of a Twitter dialog, with Joe Lindsey, I’ll try to find. Lapartient gave a tepid response to reporter’s question about risk of sportwashing- basically, “we need the money.”)
Bike market is auguring like a lawn dart. (???)
e-Bikes are here to stay, even as Rad Power Bikes is getting sued into extinction, battery fires are making the news, Florida hurricane Ian e-bikes represent a huge fire risk through the damage/ flood zones … (David loves his eMTB) 😁
Jim Says:
Video of Lorena Wiebes Riding Away from Handsy Official Goes Viral 
Professional cycling coming back to Colorado with $1 million on the line
UCI changes rule to combat aero trickery of TT support cars

 

My truck last night bringing 19 bikes back from the BSA Camporee.

Josh Reid https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvtrjFpGvwkihRfAQxlywYg

 

6th October 2022

The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast

EPISODE 308: In conversation with Legion's Justin Williams

SPONSOR: Tern Bicycles

HOST: Carlton Reid

GUEST: Justin Williams

TOPIC: On today's show, six days into Black History Month, Carlton talks about the inspirational 19th century black American professional cycle racer Major Taylor with his modern equivalent, Justin Williams. Like Major Taylor, Justin raced in Europe but unlike Major Taylor he's entreuprenial, using his Los-Angeles-based Legion racing team, which he founded with his equally fast brother Cory, to increase the diversity of cycling. In this 45-minute chat they talk about Justin's cycling mad dad and the crazy popular cycling scene of Belize. 

LINKS:

https://www.ternbicycles.com

https://www.the-spokesmen.com/

https://www.instagram.com/juswilliamz/?hl=en

https://www.instagram.com/l39ion.la/

https://www.l39ionla.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Taylor

http://majortaylorassociation.org

https://www.cyclekids.org

https://www.instagram.com/nationsnumber1beast/

https://www.rapha.cc/gb/en/stories/legion-of-los-angeles

https://www.instagram.com/ayesuppose/?hl=en

https://www.the-spokesmen.com/the-spokesmen-137-your-dreams-are-valid/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hook_Crit

https://www.therabody.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK7WkUfrr28

#BlackHistoryMonth

24th September 2022

The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast

EPISODE 307: Kidical Mass: How, Why, Where, When

SPONSOR: Tern Bicycles

HOST: Carlton Reid

GUEST: Kat Heath

TOPIC: Hundreds of "Kidical Mass" rides are taking place across the UK and Europe this weekend. A more family-friendly version of Critical Mass, these rolling demos show decision makers – with an abundance of cuteness — that children need safe space to cycle and that roads are theirs too. Kat Heath of Reading's ride explains more.

LINKS:

https://www.ternbicycles.com

https://www.the-spokesmen.com/

https://kidsonbike.org/

https://twitter.com/KidicalMassRead

#KidicalMass

22nd September 2022

The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast

EPISODE 306: Eco Adventure on Proposed Sail-powered Bike and Foot Ferry From Dover to Boulogne

SPONSOR: Tern Bicycles

HOST: Carlton Reid

GUESTS: Andrew Simons, Brandt Williamson, Robert Tickner, Tom Treasure, Caroline Tyndall, Wayne Godfrey

TOPIC: A pioneering wind-powered cross-channel ferry for cyclists and pedestrians from Dover to Boulogne operated by startup SailLink had a series of test runs earlier in September, and Carlton Reid was on the first crossing to northern France. SailLink plans to commission a bespoke craft for its 12-passenger service, but the demonstration crossings used a smaller vessel, the Mago Merlino, a 12-metre catamaran certified to carry six paying passengers and two bicycles.

LINKS:

https://www.ternbicycles.com

https://www.the-spokesmen.com/

https://saillink.co.uk

 

10th August 2022

The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast

EPISODE 304: In conversation with e-bike guru Ed Benjamin

SPONSOR: Tern Bicycles

HOST: Carlton Reid

GUEST: Ed Benjamin

TOPICS: The growth of electric bikes since the 1990s and their future, with e-bike guru Ed Benjamin.

LINKS:

https://www.ternbicycles.com/

https://www.the-spokesmen.com/

http://www.ecycleelectric.com/

20th July 2022

The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast

EPISODE 303: How five US cities built 335 miles of separated cycleway networks in two years

SPONSOR: Tern Bicycles

HOST: Carlton Reid

GUESTS: Sara Studdard and Zoe Kircos

TOPICS: Urbanists Sara Studdard and Zoe Kircos of Denver-based nonprofit City Thread discuss how the Final Mile project and People for Bikes enabled five US cities to build 335 miles of separated and often protected cycleway networks in only 24 months, several years ahead of schedule.

LINKS:

https://www.ternbicycles.com/

https://www.the-spokesmen.com/

https://www.citythread.org/team/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSeKNYNb_Qc&t=315s&ab_channel=PeopleForBikes

18th July 2022

The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast

EPISODE 302: Three ultracyclists explain how and why

SPONSOR: Tern Bicycles

HOST: Carlton Reid

GUESTS: Kabir Rachure, Josh Reid, Ruth Sutherland

TOPICS: Kabir Rachure was the first Asian to podium at the Race Across America, or RAAM, which finished a couple of weeks back. Ruth Sutherland was a rookie rider at this year's 620 mile All Points North race in northern England. Josh Reid also rode All Points North but in preparation for the Transcontinental, a 2500 mile unsupported race across Europe from the cobbles of Flanders to the shores of the Black Sea.

LINKS:

https://www.ternbicycles.com/

https://www.the-spokesmen.com/

https://www.raceacrossamerica.org/raamx/rcrank.php?s_N_Year_ID=47

https://www.ultrahuman.com/m1/?currency=usd&utm_source=main-web

https://bikepacking.com/event/all-points-north-2022/

https://www.transcontinental.cc/

1^st 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/fietsprofessor

 

https://www.waterstones.com/book/movement/thalia-verkade/marco-te-broemmelstroet/9781911344971

28th May 2022 

The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast 

EPISODE 298: Why Are Cyclist Numbers Dropping in the Netherlands?

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/carltonreid

https://twitter.com/bicyclefuturist

https://bycs.org

https://www.dfds.com/

https://www.eyefilm.nl/en

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/uk

https://www.the-spokesmen.com

https://twitter.com/carltonreid

https://twitter.com/mrmarkbeaumont

https://twitter.com/reizkultur

55-minute conversation with Professor Kim Nicholas, co-author of a new study which ranks the 12 best ways to reduce car dependence in cities.

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 Marcel Moran, a PhD Candidate at the Department of City & Regional Planning University of California, Berkeley

LINKS: https://www.Jensonusa.com/thespokesmen https://www.the-spokesmen.com https://twitter.com/carltonreid https://sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/marcelmoran/home https://findingspress.org/article/33765-treating-covid-with-bike-lanes-design-spatial-and-network-analysis-of-pop-up-bike-lanes-in-paris https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=GvdJ5eEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao https://twitter.com/marcelemoran

Bicycle beacons and more with Brussels-based Kevin Mayne the Chief Executive of Cycling Industries Europe, the bike industry advocacy group.

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://twitter.com/carltonreid

https://twitter.com/pedalingpastor

Church on the Move print book: https://www.judsonpress.com/Products/J300/church-on-the-move.aspx?fbclid=IwAR2OahFHRz-RuJHy-h4ukgfBgTeCB0nbSEY_LkLVUG7c0bq4dlrSV4gGePA

Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Church-Move-Practical-Ministry-Community/dp/0817018328/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3KXLROFRMLWE5&keywords=travis+norvell&qid=1643816289&sprefix=travis+norvell%2Caps%2C73&sr=8-1

 

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

https://twitter.com/carltonreid

https://www.bicycleretailer.com/opinion-analysis/2022/01/09/vosper-sound-one-bubble-popping#.YeQM3ljP1qs

https://www.bicycleretailer.com/rick-vosper

https://www.bicycleretailer.com/opinion-analysis/2021/11/15/vosper-hidden-big-picture-pon-dorel-story#.YeQND1jP1qs

https://www.bicycleretailer.com/opinion-analysis/2021/10/13/vosper-perfect-competition-part-one-why-bike-business-has-it-and-what%E2%80%99s#.YeQNHVjP1qs

https://rvms.com

https://twitter.com/rick_vosper

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: The history of gravel riding.

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/