The Sprocket Podcast

(check back on website for show notes later today – posting quickly to get the info to you as soon as possible!)

Aaron Brown visits the studio to explain the public comment opportunity on the proposed freeway expansion project in Portland.  If you are local, engagement is a fine opportunity to express your opinion.

It’s been about 5 years since we checked in with Brian Kidd, better known in Portland and on the internet as The Unipiper!  He’s just launched a nonprofit organization, Weird Portland United to foster and support the kind of homegrown weird stuff that Portland, Oregon has long been known for.  Listen in to our chat with this local legend and get inspired to celebrate the unique in your own life! Visit weirdportlandunited.org

As always, thanks to our drink sponsor The Beer Mongers & our generous Patreon donors.

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Every 2nd and 4th Monday 10:30am from now through March at Clever Cycles: Storytime with Kidical Mass

Also March 18: National Transit Drivers’ Day

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Miles of Portraits

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Get Supple with Pathless Pedaled – patches & stickers in!

Biketown implements fee for improperly locked cycles

Because we missed it: New bus route from NE to NW started March 3rd

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From Nation (@yar2084 on twitter): “You guys need more “Aaron and Guthrie shoot the shit” episodes! :)”

From Eamonn K.: “Just listening to your episode on Steel skatepark while driving back from Sandy when I passed (I think) Brock on Halsey. Portland is a small world.”

From Andy K.: “Finally got around to seeing “This Girl is Badass.” One of the worst movies ever made, an hour too long, and not even the funny parts came remotely close to redeeming it. If it were made later I’d call it a really bad ripoff of “Premium Rush.””

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And to all listeners and supporters for tuning in

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We fold in two episodes from earlier in the feed from Tad Hara and his friends from Team Japan.  In 2016 they competed in the Disaster Relief Trials alongside Team Sprocket Podcast.  In 2017 they returned to host the Rice Cooker Ride in which they demonstrated simple food preparation as a practical disaster response skill using a traditional Japanese wood-fired rice cooker. And in 2018 Tad brought more friends back into the studio, which is what we start this collection with.

Keep your ears tuned for Tad’s documentary project.  He and a friend returned to Portland this weekend to film subjects for a film about the bicycle lifestyle!  Aaron & Guthrie made sure to connect him with many special people, many of which you may already know.

See you back in the studio next week!

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Feb. 16 Slough Country Ramble

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The Miles of Portraits team will be taking the Tour de REI to the Southwest. We’ll ride our bikes almost 2,000 miles from LA to Santa Fe, NM, stopping at REIs along the way to share our story.

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From Adventure Cyclist Magazine: The Ups and Downs of Touring with Type I

From a mysterious number: “A Pocket Guide to Pavement”

NEITHER NEWS OR MAIL, BUT A GOOD DISCUSSION MAYBE

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Alison & Jimmy took a couple of bike trips across the country.  You know, no big deal.

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Feb. 16 Slough Country Ramble

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From the slate.com: Portland, Oregon, Says a New Highway Expansion Will Be Better for the Environment

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Another voicemail from Patty and Andrew

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Doug Walsh joins us to explain why the last thing the world needs is another travel memoir, and why he didn’t write one.  Doug authored Tailwinds Past Florence, a fresh take on a bicycle travel story.

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From the Oregonian: Orange is the new bus: TriMet goes retro with new bus colors

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From Keith in Indy

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Emily & Greg could have spent Valentine’s Day anywhere, but they chose to spend it with us playing a bicycle touring themed board game!  The Open Road is a fantastically good time, and we’re including the entire gameplay in this week’s episode because it was just that much fun.  Guthrie’s love for bananas and Aaron’s whole 30 obsession both make appearances, along with much more.

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From Dancing Moose Cycle Adv. Supplies: A cool wee snippet guys! Loving your podcasts all the way down here in Rotorua New Zealand!

From the Pedalshift Project: Look at you guys rockin the slo mo!

From Joyce Wilson: A surreal experience if, like me, you don’t get the sound of the video but instead the mysterious Christian radio station which always seems to be playing at very low volume on my computer (I only notice it when I’m trying to get sound from something I can’t get sound from and turn the volume way up). (Joyce W. also enjoyed our interview with the Sprockettes: And this is why I didn’t snooze you even though you mentioned whole30.)

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Shawn Granton is a well known icon of Portland retro-cycling and urban adventure, and joins us to talk about his recent trip to San Francisco, his approach to cartooning with his panel New Old Stock, and vintage 3-speed bicycles.

As always, thanks to our drink sponsor The Beer Mongers & our generous Patreon donors.

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Feb. 16 Slough Country Ramble

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In love with cycling, Carolyn Jen now wants to bring more women along for the ride by Ashley Baker via Bikeportland.org

In surprise change, ODOT will extend I-5 Rose Quarter comment period to 45 days via bikeportland.org

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Angie, Ryn & Meg are part of The Sprockettes, a dance troupe whose dance partners are bicycles, and have been a part of Portland’s bicycle scene for years.  In addition to clearing up the question of whether we know them or not, we find out what their approach to their performances is, notable moments in their experience bringing bicycle dance to the world, and what it’s like to teach routines to kids at their summer camps.

As always, thanks to our drink sponsor The Beer Mongers & our generous Patreon donors.

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Feb. 1 Kidical Mass Planning Meeting

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What it’s like to bike @ 20 Below Via Citylab.com

Crater Lake, Dufur, and Independence star in 21st annual Cycle Oregon rides . Via Bikeportland.org

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The Sadness of the Beard – courtesy of David Robinson.

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Aaron & Guthrie get together in the studio to talk about the future.  Y’know, jetpacks and stuff.

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Feb. 1 Kidical Mass Planning Meeting

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Citylab: Another Study Blames Uber and Lyft for Public Transit’s Decline

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