The Honest Bicycle Program

This week, it's once again a duo as Frances is busy fighting grues in the Great Underground Empire. Undeterred, Greg and mattio discuss mattio's practical memento from the National Sports Center Velodrome in Minnesota, track cycling at the Olympics and the rapid approach of cyclocross season.

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The Wide Angle Podium fund drive is underway for the Honest Bicycle Program! Mattio is off somewhere doing something, but Frances and Greg got it together to discuss the Olympic road races, the phenomenon of people explaining to elite female athletes how to do their jobs, and Nantucket as a cycling destination.

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This week, we dig into the vault for a recorded-but-unreleased episode recorded in late June, between the Tour de Suisse and Tour de France. We discuss Danny van Poppel's near-crash in Stage 4 in Switzerland, race course safety more generally, mattio's moving plans and the eight-fold way of releasing oneself from material possessions (which is to say, in racing bikes your expensive things will break, sometimes).

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The Honest Bicycle Program Tour de France sprint cast spectacular continues! Two weeks into La Grande Boucle, we give our highlights and lowlights (mostly highlights) of the race so far, and then peer into our crystal ball to predict the future. Takes are lukewarm, so don't worry you won't get burned. We saved the HOT HOT TAKES for our discussion of  the Team USA women's road race and men's track team selections for the Rio Olympics. Which are coming up soon, holy cow! Also, mattio beat Bobby Lea in a bike race, and Greg has Strong But Confused Feelings about Olympic politics.

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The HBP Tour de France Spectacular Sprint Cast returns! Greg, Frances and mattio talk about what's interesting about the Tour, why they watch, how it's gone so far and what they expect from this year's edition.

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This week, in the wake of the Philadelphia International Cycling Classic, Frances regales us with tales of her own personal participation of this classic (and extremely scary) race. Also: Chris Horner and his famous bike throw, and Greg learns that some things are more important than bike racing.

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It’s a jam-packed, hyper-caffeinated edition of HBP! Greg, mattio and Frances talk a little bit of pro racing (sort of), bike design, the politics of bicycle mode share (kind of), and the amazing new Team USA Women’s Team Pursuit bike (for real!)

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Bicycles built on people’s attempts to draw them from memory

The Bicycle Design Project and Greg’s thoughts on it from 2014

(Mostly) terrible design student bikes

The amazing new USA women’s team pursuit bike

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Greg, Frances and mattio touch the third rail and argue about helmets. Also, mattio has a Public Service Announcement about air quality, and we muse on the progression of bicycle lighting technology.

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Local elite racer and New England cycling fixture Michael Wissell sits down with Greg for a wide-ranging discussion covering allergies vs. illness, the similarities between touring in a band and traveling to bike races, different race disciplines, growing the appeal of cycling and, of course, couches.

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UGH I GUESS WE HAD TO TALK ABOUT DISC BRAKES IN PRO RACING. Also: Greg's new bike, a family-unfriendly discussion about the lack of a women's Paris-Roubaix, a Zapruderesque breakdown of the Redlands crit crash and a whole lot of nonsense.

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